It has been more than a week since Haiti’s Prime Minister resigned in response to demands made by violent gangs. The US and Caribbean nations put together a plan to select a temporary leader until new elections could be held but meanwhile, the gangs have continued their violence in the capital.
For three weeks, Haiti’s capital has been trapped in a gory cycle that far exceeds the kidnapping and gang violence for which it was already known. An insurgent league of heavily armed gangs is waging war on the city itself, seeking new territory and targeting police and state institutions. Scared and angry, vigilante groups are blocking off their neighborhoods with felled trees and chains, killing and burning outsiders suspected of gang membership. It’s the only way, they say, to defend themselves…
When Haiti’s gangs began this wave of violence at the end of February, they demanded…
