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Montevideo, August 23rd 2025 - 08:43 UTC

Tag: Haiti

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 08:43 UTC

    Canadian Ambassador and Haitian Police Chief discuss cooperation

    If read between the lines, the meeting represented Ottawa's recognition of Paraison

    Haitian National Police (PNH) Acting Director-General Vladimir Paraison and Canada's Ambassador to Port-au-Prince André François Giroux discussed cooperation regarding security issues, particularly training, logistics, and institutional development.

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  • Monday, August 11th 2025 - 10:05 UTC

    Three-month state of emergency declared in parts of Haiti

    Over 1,000 people have been killed and 620 kidnapped between October 2024 and the end of June 2025

    Haiti's government has declared a three-month state of emergency in the West, Artibonite, and Centre departments to address a surge in gang violence and the resulting food crisis. This measure is intended to mobilize state resources more effectively to restore order and security.

  • Saturday, August 9th 2025 - 10:18 UTC

    Haiti's Presidential Transition Council has new president

    Saint-Cyr is expected to be the last CPT president before the elections scheduled for February 7, 2026

    Haitian businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr has been appointed as the new rotating president of Haiti's Presidential Transition Council (CPT), a body formed after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Saint-Cyr is tasked with restoring security, leading the country toward new elections, and reviving the economy.

  • Thursday, July 31st 2025 - 08:48 UTC

    Group of Friends of Haiti discusses next steps at OAS

    Ramdin urged the international community to support Haiti through its security and humanitarian crisis

    Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Albert Ramdin convened the first meeting of the Group of Friends of Haiti in Washington DC on Wednesday. This group serves as an informal platform for information sharing among stakeholders regarding the evolving situation in Haiti, aiming to improve coordination and alignment of efforts.

  • Saturday, July 26th 2025 - 11:10 UTC

    Haitian soldiers undergoing training in Mexico

    The initiative comes as Haiti grapples with escalating gang violence

    Haiti has deployed 150 soldiers to Mexico for a two-month training program, part of a larger initiative to train a total of 700 soldiers. This move, announced by the Haitian government on Friday, is a significant step in the country's efforts to combat rampant gang violence, which has severely destabilized the capital, Port-au-Prince.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 20:57 UTC

    At least 35 gang members gunned down in Haiti

    Six police officers and five members of the Canapé-Vert vigilante group also died

    At least 35 members of the gang Viv Ansanm were gunned down by Haitian law enforcement, and 40 others were wounded, last week in a violent clash in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Pacot, the National Network for the Defense of Human Rights (RNDDH) reported. In addition, six Haitian National Police (PNH) officers and five fighters of the Canapé-Vert vigilante brigades fell in combat.

  • Friday, April 18th 2025 - 10:36 UTC

    France demanded to pay slavery reparations to Haiti

    The petitioners also requested that France own up to the independence fee it charged 200 years ago

    A large number of Latin American social organizations and personalities, such as Argentine 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, demanded Thursday that France recognize and compensate Haiti for the indemnity it imposed after the country's independence in 1804.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Haiti: New Viv Ansamm attacks reported

    Haiti's crisis looks more serious and neverending by the hour

    Attacks by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition in the city of Kenscoff were reported earlier this past weekend, with five police officers wounded and one missing. The criminal organization also set three official vehicles on fire and stole tactical gear. The perpetrators used assault rifles and bulletproof vests.

  • Monday, March 17th 2025 - 20:54 UTC

    Haiti: Gangs make TV facilities their target of choice

    Jimmy “Barcebue” Cherizier now targets TV stations

    The criminal gang Viv Ansanm has intensified its attacks on media outlets in Port-au-Prince with the latest incident involving the vandalism and arson of Télé Pluriel's premises in Port-au-Prince's Delmas 19 district during the weekend.

  • Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 23:17 UTC

    Petro and Maduro discuss cooperation in tackling drug trafficking

    It was the first contact between both leftwing leaders after Maduro's questionable Jan. 10 inauguration following the controversial July 28, 2024, election results

    Colombian President Gustavo Petro discussed with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro the possibility of tackling drug trafficking together on the border between the two countries, particularly “in the Catatumbo River” where a joint action plan is under development given the security crisis stemming from activities by the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas.

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