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Are Gangs About to Take Over Haiti? | The New Yorker

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The nation remains in chaos after the unelected Prime Minister said that he would step down, as violence and famine threaten the population.

Save this story Save this story In 2010, a huge earthquake hit Haiti, killing more than two hundred thousand people and devastating the capital city, Port-au-Prince. When I arrived two days later, from the Dominican Republic, I drove down a rubble-strewn downtown street and saw a large group of people a few blocks away, moving quickly in my direction. As they got closer, I realized that they were several dozen men and were brandishing knives and other weapons. I turned the car around and sped away to safety. Later, I learned that the men were most likely escaped inmates from the city’s main pr

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