Haiti: Dozens lifeless after gangs assault two prisons, permitting hundreds of inmates to flee | DW News

Haiti’s authorities has declared a state of emergency as violence escalates. Armed gangs demanding the prime minister’s resignation have attacked two prisons, permitting hundreds of inmates to flee, and leaving dozens lifeless and wounded.

Violence has reached unprecedented ranges because the assassination of president Jovenel Moise at his house in 2021. It’s estimated that gangs now management as a lot as 80 p.c of the capital Port-au-Prince. Prime minister Ariel Henry travelled in another country final week to attempt to drum up assist for a multinational peace mission to carry the gang violence underneath management.

For extra on this we speak to Robert Fatton Jr. He is the Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government & Foreign Affairs, within the Department of Politics on the University of Virginia. His many publications embrace: "Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy" and "Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery".

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