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Years After Earthquake, Haiti Prison Escapees Still on the Loose, ‘Well Beyond 1,000’
Dominican Today 15 Oct 2014
Yvon Neptune.
Santo Domingo.- Just how many Haitian contract killers, kidnappers, drug traffickers, rapists and other convicted criminals still on the loose after escaping from major prisons isn’t known, but documents and people close to the investigation affirm that it’s well beyond 1,000.
And they are on Dominican soil, on the lam, though law enforcement doesn’t know where, but warn that they pose a threat to the public.
Nearly five years have passed since they crossed the border after escaping from Haitian prisons in the wake of the 2010 quake that devastated that country, as another group escaped from Croix-des - Bouquets prison two months ago.
Also still unknown is how many crossed into Dominican Republic of the more than 700 who escaped Haiti’s National Penitentiary in February 2005, including former Prime Minister Ivon Neptune, when armed men broke into the prison to spring drug dealers and kidnappers.
The authorities’ searches are further complicated since they only have the photos of the escapees of 2010 and of last August, and little individual history file and scant cooperation from Haiti.
Another uncertainty hampering the capture effort is how many could’ve fled to other countries, helped by accomplices in the Dominican Republic.
According to reports, despite intense manhunts there’s no official evidence of progress in the operations.
"There’s no more talk of that because there is no progress. It's simple. The media also forgot about the case," said a source close to investigation, quoted by listin.com.do.
Since the breakout however, nearly 100 convicts have been recaptured at checkpoints at border crossings, and placed behind bars, including Colombians, Iranians, Indians and Cubans.
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HAITI Presidents' Assassination: 3 Americans & Colombian Charged in US
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated
First lady Martine Moise was wounded in the attack and is currently hospitalized.
Prime minister says attack carried out by ‘armed commando group’ that included foreign elements
7 Jul 2021 DW News
The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was shot and killed in his private residence.
President Jovenel Moïse & First lady Martine Moise
The president's residence has put out a statement Wednesday saying the attack occurred around 1 a.m. and that the
Moise was also wounded in the attack and is currently hospitalized. The assassination was carried out by a commando group with "foreign elements," AFP news agency reported, citing interim Prime Minister Joseph.
Joseph called the assassination a "hateful, inhumane and barbaric act," according to AP. He added, "All measures are being taken to guarantee the continuity of the state and to protect the nation."
In Port-au-Prince Wednesday, gunshots could be heard around the capital. Recently there has been an uptick in violence as gangs and police vy for control of the streets.
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re: Haiti President Assassins-26 Colombians & 2 US Took Part in Killing
Jovenel Moïse: Police Kill Four After Haitis' President Assassinated
Four people suspected of assassinating Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse have been killed in a shootout with the security forces, police say.
BBC News, 8 JUL 2021.
Two others have been detained, while some remaining suspects are thought to be still at large in the nation's capital Port-au-Prince.
It is unclear how the attackers gained access to Mr Moïse's home
"They will be killed or captured," police chief Leon Charles said.
Mr Moïse, 53, was fatally shot and his wife was injured when attackers stormed their home early on Wednesday.
The president was reportedly hit by multiple bullets and his office and bedroom were ransacked. First Lady Martine Moïse has been flown to Florida where she is said to be in a critical but stable condition and is receiving treatment.
"Four mercenaries were killed [and] two were intercepted under our control," Mr Charles said in a televised statement late on Wednesday. "Three policemen who had been taken hostage have been recovered."
"We blocked [the suspects] en route as they left the scene of the crime," he added. "Since then, we have been battling with them."
Speaking after the killing, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph called for calm and declared a nationwide state of emergency.
The state of emergency, or "state of siege", allows for the banning of gatherings and use of the military for police roles, along with other extensions of executive powers.
US President Joe Biden offered condolences to the people of Haiti for the "horrific assassination". UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meanwhile, called it "an abhorrent act" and also appealed for calm.
The UN Security Council, which is due to hold a closed-door meeting on the killing on Thursday, issued a statement in which it made "an emphatic call on all political stakeholders in Haiti to refrain from any acts of violence or incitement".
Mr Moïse became president of Haiti in 2017, but in recent times faced widespread protests demanding his resignation.
Coups, political instability, widespread gang violence and natural disasters have plagued the country for decades and rendered it the poorest nation in the Americas.
What do we know about the shooting?
Heavily armed assassins stormed the couple's home in the hills above Port-au-Prince at around 0100 local time (0500 GMT).
Mr Joseph said the attackers were "foreigners who spoke English and Spanish". Haiti's official languages are Creole and French.
Some reports spoke of men dressed in black who carried high-powered weapons who may have pretended to be part of a US drug enforcement operation, although no official details have been given.
Haiti's ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond, said there was "no way" US drugs agents carried out the attack. He believed it was the work of "professional mercenaries" and later said they were disguised as agents.
Addressing the nation, Mr Joseph vowed the killers would be brought to justice and said the security situation was "under control".
Who will take control?
Mr Joseph said that "all measures have been taken to ensure continuity" and that "democracy and the republic will win".
But questions remain about how much control he can assert.
A new prime minister, Ariel Henry, was named by Mr Moïse just this week but has yet to be sworn in.
Haiti's constitution says the president of the Supreme Court should take over in the event of a presidential vacancy. However, Chief Justice René Sylvestre died of Covid-19 weeks ago.
The US said it believed elections should go ahead this year, to bring about a peaceful transfer of power.
Ruling by decree
Jovenel Moïse's time in office was rocky, as he faced accusations of corruption and there were widespread demonstrations in the capital and other cities earlier this year.
Parliamentary elections should have been held in October 2019 but disputes have delayed them, meaning Mr Moïse had been ruling by decree.
In February this year, on the day the opposition wanted him to leave office, Mr Moïse said an attempt to kill him and overthrow the government had been foiled.
Haiti has also faced a wave of gang violence and kidnappings, particularly in the capital, with a number of its districts becoming no-go areas.
The worsening living standards in the nation of 11 million people have pushed nearly 60% below the poverty line.
An earthquake in 2010 killed more than 200,000 people and caused extensive damage to the infrastructure and the economy.
A UN peacekeeping force was put in place in 2004 to help stabilise the country, and only withdrew in 2017, but the turmoil has shown no sign of ending.
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Haiti Police Say 26 Colombians, Two US-Haitians Took Part in Jovenel Moïse Assassination
Haiti security forces arrest six alleged gunmen after president’s assassination
Seventeen captured men paraded in front of journalists, as police chief says another three were killed and eight remain on the run
The Guardian UK, 9 JUL 2021.
One of two foreign men in custody for allegedly participating in the assassination plot against President Jovenel Moïse sits in the back of a police vehicle in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. Photograph: Jean Marc Herve Abelard/EPA
A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was composed of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities have said, as the hunt goes on for the masterminds of the killing.
Moïse, 53, was fatally shot early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was a group of foreign, trained killers, pitching the poorest country in the Americas deeper into turmoil amid political divisions, hunger and widespread gang violence.
Authorities tracked the suspected assassins on Wednesday to a house near the scene of the crime in Petionville, a northern, hillside suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince. A firefight lasted late into the night and authorities detained a number of suspects on Thursday.
Soldiers patrol in Pétion Ville, the neighbourhood where Jovenel Moïse lived in Port-au-Prince.
Police chief Leon Charles paraded 17 men before journalists at a news conference late on Thursday, showing a number of Colombian passports plus assault rifles, machetes, walkie-talkies and materials including bolt cutters and hammers.
“Foreigners came to our country to kill the president,” Charles said. “There were 26 Colombians, identified by their passports, and two Haitian Americans as well.”
He said 15 Colombians were captured, as well as two Haitian Americans. Three of the assailants were killed and eight remained on the run, Charles said. Police in Haiti displayed passports, weapons and other items to the media along with the men suspected of assassinating president Jovenel Moïse
Police in Haiti displayed passports, weapons, tools and other items to the media along with the men suspected of assassinating president Jovenel Moïse. Photograph: Reuters
Eleven of the suspects were arrested after breaking into the embassy of Taiwan in Port-au-Prince, which sits near the residence where Moïse was killed, a statement from Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs said.
Early on Thursday morning embassy security discovered the “group of armed suspects”, described as “mercenaries” in the ministry’s statement, and notified the Haitian government. Taiwan agreed “without hesitation” to allow Haitian police access, a spokeswoman said.
“The Haitian police launched an operation at about 4pm … and successfully arrested 11 suspected armed criminals. The process was smooth and the suspects did not resist.” The spokeswoman did not provide the nationalities of the arrested men.
The embassy had been closed on Wednesday as a safety measure in response to the assassination and staff had been working from home.
Colombia’s defence minister, Diego Molano, said in a statement that preliminary information indicated that Colombians involved in the attack were retired members of the country’s military. He said Bogotá would cooperate in the investigation.
Haiti’s minister of elections and interparty relations, Mathias Pierre, identified the Haitian-American suspects as James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55.
A state department spokesperson could not confirm if any US citizens were among those detained, but US authorities were in regular contact with Haitian officials, including investigative authorities, to discuss how the US could provide assistance.
Officials in the mostly French- and Creole-speaking Caribbean nation had said on Wednesday the assassins appeared to have spoken in English and Spanish.
“It was a full, well-equipped commando, with more than six cars and a lot of equipment,” Pierre said.
Officials have not yet given a motive for the killing.
Moïse, a 53-year-old former banana exporter who took office in 2017, was murdered at his family home in the hills above Port-au-Prince about 1am local time on Wednesday. The first lady, Martine Moïse, was also wounded and later evacuated to Miami, where she is reportedly in a stable condition.
According to new details that have emerged in local reports, the attackers tied up staff, and one of Moïse’s three children survived by hiding in her brother’s bedroom.
Moïse was shot at least a dozen times and died at the scene, according to Carl Henry Destin, a judicial official, who said the president’s office and bedroom were ransacked.
“We found him lying on his back, with blue trousers, a white blood-stained shirt, his mouth open, the left eye gouged out,” Destin told Haiti’s main newspaper, Le Nouvelliste.
As details of the audacious raid emerged, Haiti was enveloped by profound political uncertainty and the streets of the capital emptied as many residents chose to stay at home. “I really don’t know what to say … the insecurity is too much,” said Darline Garnier, a 23-year-old university student from Pétionville, near where the president was killed.
“It’s a humiliation for our nation,” said Luckner Meronvil, a 46-year-old taxi driver, tears welling in his eyes as he spoke.
Theories about who was behind the killing ran wild in Haiti and in the neighbouring Dominican Republic, which shares the same island. Amid claims that some of those involved in the attack had spoken Spanish, the Dominican paper Diario Libre reported that investigators there were examining the possibility that some of the assassins may have used the country to access or flee Haiti.
And in the febrile atmosphere, competing – and so far unverified – theories have continued to emerge, one suggesting that a hit squad of Colombians and Venezuelans contracted to powerful figures in Haiti involved in drug trafficking and other criminality had ordered the killing, or that the killing involved individuals linked to Moïse’s own security staff.
Many people in Haiti had wanted Moïse to resign. Since taking over in 2017 he had faced calls to leave office and mass protests, first over corruption allegations and his management of the economy and then over his increasing grip on power.
On Thursday Haitians woke up to a country without a head of state, with a parliament long suspended, two rival interim prime ministers – one of whom was due to be sworn in during the coming days – and a constitutional legal vacuum after the death from coronavirus of the head of its supreme court.
The crowd reacts at the Jalousie township as armed men, accused of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, are being arrested in Port au Prince on July 8, 2021. -
Police in Haiti have surrounded a group of possible suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the UN envoy to Haiti said. Helen La Lime said from the Haitian capital that four members of a group that attacked the presidential palace Wednesday and shot the president have been killed by police and six others are in custody.
That has generated confusion about who is the legitimate leader of the country of 11 million people – Joseph, who has assumed power for now, or Ariel Henry, who was appointed as prime minister by Moïse just before his death and was due to be sworn in this week.
“All the cards are up in the air,” Fatton said of the apparent struggle between Henry and Joseph.
Ryan Berg, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said: “I can picture a scenario under which there are issues regarding to whom the armed forces and national police are loyal, in the case there are rival claims to being placeholder president of the country.”
Pierre, the elections minister, said on Thursday night that a presidential vote as well as a constitutional referendum that had been slated for 26 September before the assassination of Moise would go ahead as planned.
“It [the vote] was not for Jovenel Moise as president – it was a requirement to get a more stable country, a more stable political system, so I think we will continue with that,” Pierre said. He added that preparations had long been under way and millions of dollars disbursed to carry out the votes.
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Haiti PM Ariel Henry Banned From Leaving Country Amid Murder Inquiry
Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been banned from leaving the country amid an investigation into his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
BBC News 16 SEP 2021.
A prosecutor is seeking charges against Mr Henry, who has been asked to explain his links with a key suspect in the killing, Joseph Felix Badio.
Records show the two men had multiple phone calls just hours after the assassination, prosecutors say.
Mr Moïse was killed at home on 7 July.
He was shot dead after gunmen stormed his private residence in a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince. His death triggered a political crisis which was exacerbated when a huge earthquake struck the south of Haiti a month ago.
What we know so far about Haiti president's assassination
On Monday, Mr Henry sent a letter purportedly sacking Chief Prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude and accusing him of a "serious administrative offence". He later nominated a replacement.
However, on Tuesday Mr Claude appeared to remain in his post as he asked a judge investigating the murder of Mr Moïse to charge the prime minister over his "suspected" involvement in the case.
Sources with knowledge of Haiti say it is not in the prime minister's remit to dismiss the prosecutor.
Haiti's justice minister has ordered extra police protection for Mr Claude following a number of reported threats.
What's the PM's alleged link to the case?
Prosecutors say records obtained from phone operator Digicel have confirmed that Mr Badio - a justice ministry official accused of planning the assassination - and Mr Henry spoke twice shortly after Mr Moïse's killing.
Geolocation data also showed that Mr Badio, who disappeared after the murder and is currently being sought by police, was speaking from somewhere close to the scene of the crime. He has not publicly commented on these claims.
The prime minister recently rejected what he called "diversionary tactics" intended to "sow confusion" without responding to the specific accusations against him.
Mr Henry has previously told local media that he knew Mr Badio. He has defended him and said that he did not believe he was involved because he did not have the means.
The prime minister was reportedly given a deadline of Tuesday 14 September to supply the investigation with information.
It comes as authorities step up their efforts to arrest additional suspects in the assassination.
Police say there are now 44 people held in custody in connection with the plot, including 18 retired members of the Colombian military.
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Abducted Haiti Missionaries Describe Daring Escape
Twelve missionaries who were abducted in Haiti managed to get away on their own, their organisation has said.
BBC News 21 DEC 2021.
Fifteen of the 17 missionaries who were held hostage in Haiti
Twelve missionaries who were abducted in Haiti managed to get away on their own, their organisation has said.
The group escaped their captors at night and used the stars for navigation to trek through dense bush for hours, a spokesman said.
Christian Aid Ministries announced the group were finally free last week, after being held captive since October.
The gang that seized them had demanded a ransom of $1m (£740,000) per hostage. It is not clear if any money was paid.
In total, 17 missionaries and their families were abducted, after they had visited an orphanage in the town of Ganthier, east of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Five others had already been released.
Their ordeal brought international attention to Haiti's growing problem of gang abductions.
"When they sensed the timing was right, they found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path they [had] chosen to follow and left the place that they were held," spokesman Weston Showalter said at a news conference in Ohio.
Evading "numerous guards", the group travelled in the direction of a mountain that they had seen days earlier, using constellations to guide them. It was not immediately clear how they managed to escape the guards.
The group included a married couple, a 10-month old baby, and children aged three, 14 and 15. There were also four adult men and two women. They travelled through "woods and thickets, working through thorns and briars," Mr Showalter said.
He explained how the group, including all of the children, remained silent during the ordeal and that the infant was wrapped in clothing to protect her from the prickly briars. "Two hours were through fierce brambles. We were in gang territory the whole hike," he said, quoting one of the escapees.
Around dawn they found a person with a phone who helped them call authorities.
The group was later flown back to Florida on a US Coast Guard flight, Christian Aid Ministries (CAM) said. Most have now returned to their families.
At the time of their release, police spokesman Gary Desrosiers told AFP news agency there had been weeks of negotiations between the gang, known as 400 Mazowo, and authorities.
Two group members were freed in November, and another three in early December, but their identities have not been revealed.
Speaking at the news conference, David Troyer, director of CAM, said "people who sought to help us provided funds to pay a ransom and allow the negotiation process to continue", although he did not explain whether any payment had been made.
CAM, based in the US, describes itself as a channel for Amish, Mennonite, and other Anabaptist groups to minister to physical and spiritual needs around the world.
The gang provided food and clean drinking water to the missionaries, the church said, and baby formula for the infant. However the water for cleaning was contaminated, leading some of the escapees to get skin sores around their mosquito bites.
Mr Showalter denied initial reports that the group's driver was a Haitian local. He said the driver was a Canadian, and that he is now also free.
"The hostages spoke to the gang leader on several occasions, boldly reminding him of God and warning him of God's eventual judgment if him and the gang members continue in their gangs," Mr Showalter said, adding that the group maintained a 24-hour prayer vigil while in captivity.
There has been no independent confirmation of Mr Showalter's account by either US or Haitian officials.
CAM, which supplies Haitian children with shelter, food and clothing and says it has worked in the country for over 30 years, is one of many non-profit organisations providing aid in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Haiti's Powerful Crime Gang
Kidnapping is one of the main activities that the 400 Mazowo criminal gang uses to finance itself.
In April, its members abducted a group of Catholic clergy who were later released, and it is unclear if a ransom was paid.
Haiti has one of the highest rates of kidnapping in the world, as powerful gangs exploit the lawless situation to profit from ransom payments.
This year has been particularly bad, with nearly 800 kidnappings reported before the end of October.
The rise has come in the wake of President Jovenel Moïse's assassination in July, as rival factions fight to gain control of the country in the face of a struggling police force.
Haiti parades suspects after president's murder
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Haiti Riots: Calls For Calm After Anti-Government Violence
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, after an end to government fuel subsidies caused petrol and diesel prices to skyrocket.
BBC News 18 SEP 2022.
Senior leaders have called for calm after days of violent anti-government protests in Haiti.
Justice Minister Berto Dorcé vowed to identify and punish those behind attacks on property.
UN Secretary General António Guterres is "deeply concerned" about the unrest.
The latest demonstrations come as inflation has risen to its highest level in a decade, 40% of the country is relying on food assistance to survive, and chronic gang violence has left hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and has suffered a number of recent crises, most notably the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021 and a massive earthquake that left more than 2,200 people dead just a month later.
Last week, there were reports of clashes, including protesters throwing stones and shots being fired.
Earlier this week, two journalists were shot dead and their bodies set on fire in Cité Soleil, on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince.
In Port-au-Prince, protesters set up barricades and blocked roads with piles of burning tyres.
In the city of Gonaives, in the north, public buildings and private residences were attacked and looted.
The local offices of the UN Food Programme were attacked on Thursday.
The country has been plagued by gang violence. A person wearing a mask and holding a machete
Deaths are frequent, with more than 200 people killed in gang violence in Port-au-Prince in the space of just 10 days in July, according to figures from the UN.
Locals said the violence was causing them to live in fear, and disrupting food and water supplies.
A spokesperson for Mr Guterres said the current unrest had brought the country to a standstill.
He warned that if the current situation continued, "The already dire humanitarian situation faced by Haiti's most vulnerable people will deteriorate even further."
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Haiti in a Humanitarian Catastrophe - UN envoy
A chronic gang, economic and political crisis has led to a humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti, the country's UN envoy has said.
Weeks of violence and attacks on food aid warehouses have rocked the nation's food security, Helen La Lime told an emergency UN Security Council meeting.
BBC News 27 SEP 2022.
In protest of the dire situation, businesses have closed and transport services are not running.
Thousands are calling for Prime Minister Ariel Henry's resignation.
Civil unrest across the island escalated after he announced an end to government fuel subsidies on 11 September, which caused petrol and diesel prices to skyrocket.
Since then, protests and looting have intensified, with the capital, Port-au-Prince, at the heart of it.
Ms La Lime told the UN Security Council on Monday that an estimated 2,000 tonnes of food aid, valued at close to $5m (£4.6m), were lost following repeated attacks on local warehouses of the UN Food Programme.
"That would have collectively supported up to 200,000 of the most vulnerable Haitians over the next month", she said.
---Haiti gang violence kills more than 200 in 10 days ---Like a warzone - Haitians surrounded by turf wars
World Food Program's (WFP) executive director Valerie Guarnieri, who was also at the meeting, said: "The situation in Haiti has sadly reached new levels of desperation".
Inflation has risen to its highest level in a decade, and 40% of the country is relying on food assistance to survive, she said.
And Ms Guarnieri added that she expects food security to deteriorate further this year, with 1.3 million people in a state of emergency due to the crisis.
Criminal gangs are at the centre of Haiti's problems, and chronic gang violence has left hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
Rates of gang violence, which had already shot up since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse by mercenaries a year ago, have reached shocking new levels since a battle erupted on 8 July between two criminal alliances, known as G9 and G-Pèp.
But Haiti's Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus told the UN Security Council that apart from some "isolated cases", violence in his country was "generally under control" and calm had returned to parts of the island.
At the meeting, Mr Geneus called on the international community to provide Haiti with "robust support" to ensure the police can fight against armed gangs.
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HAITI: People Will Die as Country Nears Breaking Point - Haiti Asks World For Military Help to Curb Chaos
---The United Nations is warning that hunger in one of Haiti's biggest slums is at catastrophic levels, as gang violence and economic crises push the country to "breaking point".
HAITI Crisis: Clashes and Looting as Anger Boils Over
---At least one woman was reportedly killed as protesters clashed with police in Haitian cities on Monday.
BBC 15 OCT 2022
Nearly 20,000 people in the capital's impoverished Cité Soleil area have dangerously little access to food and could face starvation, the UN says,
Across Haiti, almost five million are struggling with malnutrition.
"Haiti is facing a humanitarian catastrophe," a top UN official said.
"The severity and the extent of food insecurity in Haiti is getting worse," Jean-Martin Bauer, the Haiti country director for the UN's World Food Programme added.
The poorest nation in the Americas is suffering acute political, economic, health and security crises which have fuelled a rise in violence and paralysed the country.
Powerful gangs have blocked Haiti's main fuel terminal, crippling its basic water and food supplies.
In the Cité Soleil neighbourhood, the UN said levels of food insecurity had reached the highest level on its classification system - Phase 5 - meaning residents have dangerously little access to food and could be facing starvation.
Mr Bauer said Haitians "have gone through the gauntlet".
Anger at the government's handling of the country's multiple crises have boiled over into anti-government protests. These have escalated to looting with at least one woman reportedly killed in clashes.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation said there had been 16 cholera deaths and 32 confirmed cases, three years after an epidemic of the water-borne disease killed 100,000 people.
Another UN official said 100,000 children under the age of five were severely malnourished and are especially vulnerable to cholera.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry has asked for foreign military help, but the call has been criticised by some Haitians who see it as foreign interference.
The UN has since called for the immediate deployment of a special international armed force to Haiti, but it is not yet clear which countries would provide the members of such a force and what its task would be.
Gangs have taken control of key highways and Varreux, Haiti's largest fuel terminal. With food and fuel deliveries suspended as a result, more and more Haitians are going hungry.
Several warehouses run by aid organisations have also been looted, resulting in the most vulnerable going without food and drinking water.
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and has suffered a number of recent crises, most notably the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021 and a massive earthquake that left more than 2,200 people dead just a month later.
Police confronted demonstrators as anti-government protests descended into looting.
Looters stole a fridge from a hotel during the protest
Anger has been boiling over as gang violence has spiralled out of control, disrupting shipments of fuel and food.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry has asked for foreign assistance, but the call has been criticised by some Haitians who see it as foreign interference.
In the capital, Port-au-Prince, protesters erected burning barricades out of tyres and threw stones at police, who in turn fired tear gas. Some protesters proceeded to loot a hotel.
Shots were fired and pictures taken at the scene by a Reuters photographer showed a bloodied woman lying dead on the ground.
A protester told AFP she had been shot by the security forces: "It is a crime perpetrated by the police. This young girl posed no threat. She was killed expressing her desire to live in dignity."
Police have not yet commented on the incident.
There were also protests in the western city of Gonaïves, where demonstrators stormed a court building, and in Cap-Haïtien, on Haiti's north coast.
According to local media, many of those in the streets on Monday were angry at the prime minister's request for foreign armed forces to be deployed in Haiti, which they reject as an "interference in Haiti's internal affairs".
"We certainly need help to develop our country, but we don't need boots [on the ground]," one protester told AFP.
Prime Minister Henry asked for foreign assistance on Wednesday without going into specifics. Two days later, the government officially authorised him to ask the international community for a "specialised armed force".
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has since called for the immediate deployment of a special international armed force to Haiti, but it is not yet clear which countries would provide the members of such a force and what its task would be.
The situation in Haiti has deteriorated rapidly since the assassination in July last year of President Jovenel Moïse by mercenaries.
Gangs have taken control of key highways and Varreux, Haiti's largest fuel terminal. With food and fuel deliveries suspended as a result, more and more Haitians are going hungry.
Several warehouses run by charities and aid organisations have been looted, resulting in the most vulnerable going without food and drinking water.
With clean water increasingly hard to source, cases of cholera - a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water - have been mounting.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation said there had been 16 cholera deaths and 32 confirmed cases.
In 2010, about 10,000 people died of cholera in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti.
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Police Take Control of Haiti Fuel Terminal
Security forces in Haiti say they have taken control of a major fuel depot held by criminal gangs.
BBC News 4 NOV 2022.
The government says fuel distribution will resume from the Varreux terminal, in the rundown Cité Soleil area, on Monday.
The gangs seized the port facility in September, blocking the delivery of imported fuel and hampering efforts to distribute food and medicines.
The terminal supplies most of the oil products in Haiti.
It has been controlled and blockaded by a coalition of powerful gangs, known as G9, for more than a month.
The blockade has forced many businesses to close and complicated the distribution of petrol and bottled drinking water, while a cholera outbreak has worsened by the week.
All of this has contributed to civil unrest across the country.
The unrest has also escalated since Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced an end to government fuel subsidies on 11 September, which sent petrol and diesel prices skyrocketing.
Amid the turmoil, police launched an operation to take control of the fuel terminal on Wednesday. Gunfire was heard in the area throughout the day.
A day later, a police source told AFP they had succeeded in taking control of the facilities and were in the process of clearing the roads.
Neither the police nor the government stated whether any deaths or injuries occurred.
Prime Minister Henry congratulated the police for retaking the terminal in a statement.
The police operation follows a recent warning from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Voker Türk, that a "protracted, multifaceted crisis" in Haiti could descend into the country's worst humanitarian emergency in decades. The UN also recently urged all countries to suspend the repatriation of Haitian migrants to the country.
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Hundreds Dead in Haiti Cholera Outbreak Haiti is once again in the grip of a cholera outbreak which has already killed hundreds, most of them children
Immunity or impunity? Lawsuit seeks to hold UN accountable for Haiti cholera epidemic
More Than 12 Killed in Haiti as Gangs Vie For Control
BBC News DEC 2022.
And it is just the latest tragedy of a never ending series of humanitarian crises.
Since the president was assassinated last summer the security situation in the country has deteriorated, with the government there calling last week for an international armed intervention to restore order.
Despite President Biden backing this idea - he is yet to commit troops.
Mayor: More Than 12 Killed in Haiti as Gangs Vie For Control
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 12 people were slain and numerous homes set on fire in a community near Haiti’s capital as gangs fight to control more territory, a mayor told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The incident occurred in the small town of Cabaret northwest of Port-au-Prince at nearly midnight Tuesday, Mayor Joseph Jeanson Guillaume said.
The community recently appointed local residents to serve as guards given a spike in violence across Haiti, but they were overpowered by gangs with machine guns, he said.
“There was nothing they were able to do to defend themselves,” Guillaume said. “This is a terrible incident.”
Pictures and videos shared on social media show the bodies of mutilated victims strewn outside their homes and fires burning through the night, consuming more than 20 houses.
Guillaume called on Haiti's National Police to bring those responsible to justice and to strengthen the presence and resources of officers in Cabaret, which he said has become “a lawless zone.”
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Haiti Police Riot After Crime Gangs Kill 14 Officers
Rebel police officers rioted in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday in protest at the killing of more than a dozen colleagues by criminal gangs.
BBC 27 JAN 2023
The rioting officers blame the government for not taking action.
More than 100 demonstrators blocked streets, burned tyres, broke security cameras and damaged vehicles.
Local media said several officers broke through the gates of the prime minister's residence and attempted to enter Haiti's international airport.
The National Union of Haitian Police Officers says 14 men have been killed since the start of the year in various gang attacks on police stations.
Seven officers were killed in shootout on Wednesday alone, according to Haiti's National Police.
Scores of civilians and angry police officers took to the streets in Port-au-Prince to denounce the violence following the murder of two officers inside a police station in a town in northern Haiti and the execution-style killing of four more on the street outside.
Some of them reportedly went to the official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Vant Bef Info said.
When they found it empty, they headed to Port-au-Prince airport where Mr Henry had just landed after a summit in Argentina.
Protesters apparently tried to gain access to the airport by breaking its windows, but Mr Henry managed to slip away, Haiti's Radio Tele Metronome said.
Many businesses and schools remained shut on Thursday in the wake of the protests.
Port-au-Prince and other cities have been racked for months by escalating deadly gang warfare, and Haitian media have reported that the country has seen a marked rise in kidnappings since the start of the year.
A Haitian human rights group, the National Network of the Defense of Human Rights, said 78 police officers have been killed since Mr Henry came to power in 2021.
Outgunned by the multiple criminal gangs, Haiti's police have been unable to halt the violence.
In October 2022, the Henry government appealed to the international community for a multi-national security force to help restore order - but the call has so far gone unanswered, despite some increased aid from the US and Canada.
See also: Inside the capital taken hostage by brutal gangs
Armed groups control and terrorise at least 60% of the capital and its surroundings, according to Haitian human rights groups, and are controlling the roads in and out of the city.
Last September, gangs seized a major fuel depot in Port-au-Prince's port, blocking the delivery of imported fuel and hampering efforts to distribute food and medicines.
The blockade forced many businesses to close and complicated the distribution of petrol and bottled drinking water, all while a cholera outbreak worsened.
The UN envoy to Haiti, Helen La Lime, said on Wednesday that "the situation in Haiti is grave".
"You know that gang-driven violence has reached new heights. On average, we we face one kidnapping every six hours in 2022.
"We will not win the fight without significant levels of additional support," Ms La Lime said.
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HAITI Presidents' Assassination: What We Know So Far
Three Haitian Americans and a Colombian have been charged in the US over the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021.
BBC 1 FEB 2023
Seven people in total have now been charged in the US. Haiti parades suspects after president's murder
His death in his private residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, plunged the country, already suffering from rising violence and an economic crisis made worse by natural disasters, into further turmoil.
Police say a group of mercenaries, most of them Colombians, was behind the attack, which they suspect a Haitian doctor of ordering as part of a plot to become president.
Dozens of people have been arrested in connection with the case. But for the most part, the investigation has been slow, and the exact details about the people who carried out the plan and their real motives are only beginning to emerge.
How was he killed?
Moïse, 53, was shot dead inside his home in the Pelerin 5 neighbourhood, in the hills above Port-au-Prince at 01:00 local time on 7 July 2021, according to police.
The president was shot 12 times and had bullet wounds to his forehead and several to his torso. His left eye had been gouged out and bones in his arm and in his ankle had been broken, according to one of the judges conducting the investigation.
He died at the scene and was found lying on the floor on his back, his shirt soaked in blood. The first lady, Martine Moïse, was also shot but survived.
A map showing where the attack took place
Who shot him?
Haitian police allege a group of mainly foreign mercenaries - 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans - made up the group that carried out the killing.
An investigating judge said the two Haitian Americans had told interrogators they had been hired as interpreters on the internet.
The two allege that they did not know there was a plan afoot to kill the president but believed they were to act as interpreters when he was arrested. Haiti's official languages are Creole and French, while the Colombian suspects speak Spanish.
One of the Haitian Americans said he had been given what he believed was an arrest warrant for the president.
Most of the Colombian detainees have been identified as former soldiers, including a lieutenant-colonel. Family members told Colombian media the suspects had told them that they had been hired "to provide security" in Haiti.
After retiring from the army, many Colombian soldiers go on to work for security firms abroad, mainly in the United Arab Emirates, where they are valued for their training and experience in fighting armed groups.
At the end of January 2023, dual Haitian American citizens James Solages and Joseph Vincent, as well as Colombian citizen Germán Alejandro Rivera García, were charged by the US justice department with conspiracy in connection to the murder.
Another Haitian American man, Dr Christian Emmanuel Sanon, was charged with smuggling.
According to the US justice department, Mr Solages and Dr Sanon met in April 2021 "to discuss regime change in Haiti and support for Sanon, an aspiring Haitian political candidate".
Three other people, including a Haitian former senator, have been charged so far in connection with the case the US.
Who hired the Colombians?
Haitian police chief Léon Charles said Dr Sanon, who was arrested after the assassination, was a "key suspect" in the case.
According to Mr Charles, Dr Sanon hired 26 of the 28-strong hit squad through a Miami-based company called CTU, run by Venezuelan national Tony Intriago. Dr Sanon, he added, was "the first person" that one of the Colombian suspects had called when police surrounded them.
Dr Sanon, a 63-year-old doctor who lived in Florida, arrived in Haiti on a private jet in early June with "political motives", Mr Charles said, adding that police had found weapons, ammunition and a Drug Enforcement Administration cap in his possession.
The police chief suggested that the Colombians might have been duped by Dr Sanon, who was planning to become Haiti's president.
"The initial mission that was given to these assailants was to protect the individual named Emmanuel Sanon, but afterwards the mission changed," he said without clarifying if all or any of the suspects had been briefed about the changes.
Another prime suspect, according to Mr Charles, was former Haitian senator John Joel Joseph, who allegedly supplied weapons and planned meetings. He was arrested in January in Jamaica.
But still on the run is Joseph Felix Badio, a former official in the justice ministry's anti-corruption unit, also seen as a key suspect in the case.
How did the assailants gain access?
Video footage, not independently verified but thought to have been taken by residents, shows armed men dressed in black arriving in several vehicles.
A man, thought to be a security guard, appears to have been forced to lie face down in the street while another man can be heard shouting in English over a loudspeaker, "DEA [US Drug Enforcement Administration} operation, everybody stay down!"
Haiti's ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond, said that while the attackers had disguised themselves as US drug agents, he believed there was "no way" they really were US agents.
Officials say the ground between the property's gatehouse and the residence was littered with cartridge cases, indicating that multiple shots were fired.
Yet the only people injured by bullets were the president and his wife, a fact which has raised questions about the possible complicity of the president's guards.
The group seems to have met little or no resistance inside the residence or during their initial getaway.
Two domestic staff were tied up and the presidential couple's adult daughter, Jomarlie, hid in her brother's bedroom and was unhurt.
The timeline immediately after the assassination is not very clear. Some of the suspects were reportedly tracked down to a house nearby, which was then surrounded by police.
The area where the president's residence is located was cordoned off
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Haiti Violence: State of Emergency Declared After MASS Jailbreak
The government of Haiti declared a 72-hour state of emergency on Sunday after armed gangs stormed a major Port-au-Prince prison, leading to the killing of at least 12 people and the escape of around 4,000 inmates.
The Guardian 4 MAR 2024
Gang leaders say they want to force the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is currently abroad.
The groups aiming to oust him control around 80% of Port-au-Prince.
Violent gang wars have killed thousands in the country since 2020.
A government statement said two prisons - one in the capital and the other in nearby Croix des Bouquets - were stormed over the weekend.
It said the acts of "disobedience" were a threat to national security and said it was instituting an immediate night-time curfew in response, which started at 20:00 local time (01:00 GMT on Monday).
Among those detained in Port-au-Prince were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.
The latest upsurge in violence began on Thursday, when the prime minister travelled to Nairobi to discuss sending a Kenya-led multinational security force to Haiti.
Gang leader Jimmy Chérizier (nicknamed "Barbecue") declared a co-ordinated attack to remove him.
"All of us, the armed groups in the provincial towns and the armed groups in the capital, are united," said the former police officer, who is thought to be behind several massacres in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti's police union had asked the military to help reinforce the capital's main prison, but the compound was stormed late on Saturday.
On Sunday the doors of the prison were still open and there were no signs of officers, Reuters news agency reported. Three inmates who tried to flee lay dead in the courtyard, the report said.
A journalist for the AFP news agency who visited the prison saw around 10 bodies, some with signs of injuries caused by bullets.
One volunteer prison worker told the Reuters news agency that 99 prisoners - including former Colombian soldiers jailed over President Moïse's murder - had chosen to remain in their cells for fear of being killed in crossfire.
Violence has been rife since President Moïse's assassination in his home in 2021. He has not been replaced and elections have not been held since 2016.
Under a political deal, Mr Henry was due to stand down by 7 February. But planned elections were not held and he remains in post.
Haiti has not had a single elected government official since the term of the last elected senators expired in January 2023.
Speaking to the BBC, Claude Joseph - who was serving as acting prime minister when President Moïse was assassinated and who is now head of the opposition party called "Those Committed to Development" - said Haiti was living through a "nightmare".
Mr Joseph said PM Henry wanted "to stay as long as possible in charge".
"He agreed to step down on 7 February. Now he decides to stay, despite the fact that there are huge protests throughout the country asking him to step down but its unfortunate that now those criminals are using violent means to force him to step down."
In January, the UN said more than 8,400 people were victims of Haiti's gang violence last year, including killings, injuries and kidnappings - more than double the numbers seen in 2022.
Anger at the shocking levels of violence, on top of the political vacuum, have led to several demonstrations against the government, with protesters demanding the resignation of the prime minister.
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The UN Security Council backed Kenya's offer to lead a multinational security force to Haiti
Around 1,000 Kenyan police officers are set to be deployed to Haiti in a bid to combat raging gang violence.
Last year, Kenya volunteered to lead a multinational security force in the troubled Caribbean nation.
Yet in January the High Court BLOCKED the plan, ruling the government did not have the authority to deploy police to other countries without an agreement.
It also ruled that the National Security Council lacks the legal authority to send police outside Kenya.
On Thursday, Haiti's PM arrived in the East African state to salvage the plan.
In January, a UN envoy said that gang violence in Haiti had reached "a critical point", with nearly 5,000 deaths reported last year, more than double the number seen in 2022. While in that month alone, more than 1,100 people were killed, injured or kidnapped.
In a statement on Friday, Kenyan President William Ruto said he and Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry had signed an agreement and discussed the next steps to enable the fast-tracking of the deployment.
Along with the Kenyan officers, the Bahamas has committed 150 personnel. Jamaica and the state of Antigua & Barbuda have said they are willing to help, while the US has pledged £158m ($200m) to support the deployment.
Earlier this week, Benin offered 2,000 troops.
However, many Kenyans are opposed to the deployment, arguing that security challenges need to first be tackled at home.
Opposition politician Ekuru Aukot, who filed the initial petition against the deployment, told the AFP news agency on Friday that he would lodge a case "for contempt of court".
"We will question the validity of this secretive agreement," he said.
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Haitian Gang Leader- EX Police Officer, Threatens Civil War If PM Doesn't Resign
Haiti PM's future as leader in doubt amid chaos and threats of worsening violence
CBC 7 MAR 2024
Gang leader warns of 'civil war' as recent prison break, police killings put island on edge
Haitian politicians started Wednesday creating alliances to lead the country crumbling under gang attacks that have shuttered the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning home.
Politicians pursued new coalitions as Haiti remained largely paralyzed, with schools and businesses still closed amid heavy gunfire blamed on gangs that control an estimated 80 per cent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where several bodies lay strewn on empty streets.
The country's two biggest prisons were also raided, with more than 4,000 inmates released over the weekend. Several police officers were killed in violence that erupted last week.
One new political alliance involves former rebel leader Guy Philippe and ex-presidential candidate and senator Moïse Jean Charles, who told Radio Caraïbes on Wednesday that they signed a deal to form a three-person council to lead Haiti.
Frantz André, a spokesperson and co-ordinator for Action Committee for People Without Status, says he's received several calls from members of the Haitian diaspora in Montreal asking for help. Many are wondering how to get their families to Canada. A 72-hour state of emergency was declared on Sunday night after inmates escaped from two prisons in Haiti.
Philippe, a key figure in the 2004 rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was repatriated to Haiti in November and has been calling for Henry's resignation. He spent several years in prison in the U.S. after pleading guilty to a money laundering charge.
Dominican Republic Ups Security as Haiti Gang Leader Warns of Civil War
The Dominican Republic said on Wednesday it was maintaining strict security measures on its border with Haiti after Jimmy Cherizier, a gang member seeking to topple the neighboring country’s government, warned of civil war and genocide.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is not elected, landed in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico on Tuesday, clearing doubts about his whereabouts after he traveled to Kenya last week to seal a security deal intended to secure the African nation’s leadership of an international gang-fighting force.
“If Ariel Henry doesn’t step down, if the international community continues to support Ariel Henry, they will lead us directly into a civil war that will end in genocide,” Cherizier, known as Barbeque, said in a press conference on Tuesday.
Cherizier said there were “strategic places” that a broad alliance of gangs known as Viv Ansanm (Living Together) were fighting to annex and which would allow them to “win the battle for the ousting of Ariel Henry as quickly as possible.” He said Henry’s international backers would be to blame for those who die in Haiti.
Gangs in Port-au-Prince, battling for turf, have signaled they could join together to fight an international force as a united front.
Cherizier said he has doubled the number of gunmen guarding the capital’s international airport to eight.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic border each other on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
In a government statement on Wednesday, Dominican Defense Minister Carlos Luciano Diaz Morfa, who is touring the border with Haiti, said that “everything is calm.” “Where the border gates are open, there is a commercial flow which is smaller than usual but continues to operate normally under military surveillance,” he added.
The statement said that “strict security measures are being maintained on the Dominican-Haitian border” but did not offer details.
Meanwhile, Haitian news outlet Vant Bef reported that Guy Philippe, a former coup leader who recently returned from the United States where he served a six-year prison term on drug trafficking charges, was seeking to become leader of a transition council.
Since returning to Haiti in December, Philippe has organized nationwide protests flanked by armed members of a rogue environmental brigade known as BSAP, which local media reported is staffed with former soldiers who fought with Philippe in the 2004 ouster of ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
In a recent report, the Geneva-based Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime said its sources estimate the BSAP has between 2,000 and 6,000 officially registered agents, though it remains unclear how large the full force is or how they are paid and armed.
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HAITI ANARCHY; Men Fighting Gang Leader Barbecue For Power as Gang Violence Plunges Country Into Chaos
Haitis' most notorious gang leader plots its future amid rebellion as US Evacuates embassy staff
Womens bodies weaponized: Haiti gangs use rape in spiraling violence
BBC 13 MAR 2024
Ex-rebel Guy Philipe (left) and gang leaders Jimmy Chérizier and Johnson André are all vying for control
An ex-cop who likes to give news conferences while wielding a high-powered rifle and a young criminal as fond of starring in rap videos as he is of trafficking arms and drugs.
These are just two of the gang leaders blamed for the surge in violence which has engulfed the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and led to the resignation of Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
Add a former rebel fresh out of jail in the US who plans on becoming president and you get an explosive mix.
With the country in limbo awaiting the creation of a transition government, we take a closer look at some of those jostling for power in Haiti.
Gang leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier
Former police officer Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier, and leader of an alliance of armed groups, uses a walkie talkie after addressing the media, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 11, 2024.
Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier is the most visible gang leader but others have more men under arms
The 47-year-old former police officer may not be the most powerful gang leader in Haiti, but Jimmy Chérizier has emerged as the most visible face of the recent unrest.
Fond of speaking to journalists while clad in his trademark bullet-proof vest, the man widely known as Barbecue leads an alliance of gangs called G9.
Barbecue has been one of the most outspoken enemies of Ariel Henry, demanding his resignation ever since the latter was sworn in as prime minister.
The G9 leader likes to portray himself as someone who fights for the common people and against the oligarchy.
But not only has he been accused of leading a massacre in 2018 in which scores of people were killed, he was also behind the 2021 blockade of the Varreux fuel terminal.
G9's attacks on water and food deliveries caused severe shortages among Haiti's poorest. The lack of fuel caused by the blockade meant hospitals struggled to keep their generators running to provide crucial care.
"Barbecue has made vague demands of a more just and equitable system, but of course the irony of this whole situation is that the armed groups in the capital and around are creating the hell that people are living through," explains Haiti expert Michael Deibert.
Barbecue claims to have united Port-au-Prince's notoriously quarrelsome gangs in a coalition called Viv Ansanm (Live Together).
It is hard to verify that claim. But while so far no rival gang leader has denied it, any alliance is likely to be short-lived, according to Michael Deibert.
"These groups feud mercilessly with one another all the time," the journalist, author and researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) explains.
Mr Deibert says that the gangs appear to have found a "modus vivendi" while they try to tear down the pillars of the state. "To what end I'm not exactly clear," he adds.
Chillingly, Barbecue warned last week that a "civil war" could erupt should Mr Henry return to Haiti. The leader of the G9 has not yet spoken since Mr Henry said he would step down as soon as a transition council has been created.
But judging by his previous warnings that Haitians should be left to decide Haitian affairs without any outside interference, the planned deployment of a multi-national security force to Haiti will not go down well with him.
Romain Le Cour, an expert at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), says that Barbecue derives a lot of his power from controlling the capital's port and fuel terminal.
Should international police forces be deployed to retake these key installations, Barbecue could see his influence diminish, Mr Le Cour argues.
Both Mr Le Cour and Mr Deibert warn that Barbecue is not even remotely the most powerful gang leader in Haiti, just the one who is most accessible to the media.
"A lot of the most powerful characters are people who don't give interviews to journalists," Mr Deibert points out.
Gang leader Johnson André, aka Izo. Izo is one of the gang leaders who has been increasing in power
One of the gang leaders thought to wield more power than Barbecue is a 26-year-old known as Izo.
Izo differs from Barbecue, a former police officer, in that he came up through the gang hierarchy to lead the Vilaj de Dye - 5 Segonn gang, explains Romain Le Cour.
The two gang leaders share a love of the limelight, but Izo tends to use social media to publish music videos rather than to air his political views.
The young gangster has released a number of rap videos and was even awarded a prize by YouTube for getting 100,000 followers.
But behind the gangster bling façade is a ruthless criminal whose gang engages in rape, kidnappings, drug and arms trafficking, according to the United Nations.
He is also accused of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
Romain Le Cour, who has been studying Haiti's gangs for years, says what makes Izo stands out is the fact that he has managed to gain control of maritime routes in Port-au-Prince Bay.
That allows him to circumvent territory held by other gangs and lets him move weapons quickly.
According to the UN, Izo has also exploited Haiti's "fragile security environment" to make money through drug trafficking with some shipments reportedly arriving directly from South America in the Vilaj de Dye neighbourhood he controls.
In its report on Haiti's gang crisis, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) traces Izo's attempts to expand his territorial control beyond the capital.
His gang's incursion into Mirebalais, 35km north of the capital, triggered deadly clashes between members of his 5 Segonn gang and vigilantes in which 30 people were killed. According to the report, at least 800 families fled their homes in the resulting violence.
Mr Le Cour points out that Izo's drug trafficking and arms smuggling network will be particularly tough to break down as it is very diverse, so much so that he does not even flinch from selling weapons to his rivals.
Guy Philippe, a rebel leader turned politician, told Reuters news agency he wanted to be president
Guy Philippe is another former police officer gone rogue. The 56-year-old helped lead the coup against President Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
In 2016, he ran for the Senate in Haiti and won. But days before he was sworn into office - which would have given him immunity from prosecution - he was arrested on drug-trafficking charges and extradited to the US.
He admitted taking bribes to protect narcotics shipments to the US while he was working as a senior police officer.
Philippe was repatriated to Haiti in November after serving his sentence, a move Michael Deibert describes as "pouring gasoline on an already raging fire".
It did not take Philippe long to share video messages on social media in which he called for a "rebellion" against Mr Henry.
Guy Philippe has openly expressed his desire to be Haiti's next president.
Asked whether his jail term could prove a stumbling block on the way to the presidential palace, he said: "[Former South African President Nelson] Mandela was in prison. [Former Venezuelan President] Hugo Chávez was in prison. [Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva] Lula was in prison... And so if my people believe and trust me, I will be their leader. It's up to my people, no-one else."
Mr Deibert points out that Philippe is not the only one to have expressed his presidential ambitions amid the chaos that the gang violence has created.
"The group that seems to be forgotten in this is the people of Haiti," he says, drawing attention to the humanitarian crisis which has left an estimated five million out of Haiti's 11 million people facing acute hunger.
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