Haiti unrest

Vivianne Petit Frere, of Haiti, sits at a table in the Haitian restaurant she runs Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in downtown Tijuana, Mexico. When she fled to Brazil in 2019, walked through Panamanian jungle two years later, met her husband in Mexico and opened the restaurant, Petit Frere always felt she would eventually return home. Until now. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

For Haitian diaspora, gang violence back home is personal

Hopes of return dimming as crime continues to escalate

 

Members of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, USGPN, set up a security perimeter after armed gang members tried to seize the National Palace the day before, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Odelyn Joseph

Canada’s UN ambassador to attend emergency meeting on gang crisis in Haiti

Caribbean leaders have also invited the U.S., France, the UN and Brazil to attend Monday meeting

 

Members of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, USGPN, set up a security perimeter around one of the three downtown stations after police fought off an attack by gangs the day before, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as leaders call emergency meeting

Country remains in state of emergency with nightly curfew in effect

 

Police take cover during an anti-gang operation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Hundreds of inmates flee after armed gangs storm Haiti’s main prison

Violence escalating as Prime Minister Ariel Henry travels abroad to seek help from UN

Police take cover during an anti-gang operation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Armed members of “G9 and Family” march in a protest against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

UN votes to send a Kenya-led force to Haiti to curb gang violence

Haiti has called for such an intervention since last October

Armed members of “G9 and Family” march in a protest against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inspects an honour guard as he arrives in Nassau, Bahamas, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Trudeau pledges more help for Haiti, stops short of suggesting military intervention

Feds to provide $12.3 million in new humanitarian aid, $10 million to support migrants in region

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inspects an honour guard as he arrives in Nassau, Bahamas, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
A photo of missing Haitian police Officer Ricken Staniclasse is held by his 11-year-old son at their home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. One of Haiti’s gangs stormed a key part of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, and battled with police throughout the day, leaving at least three officers dead and another missing. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

As Haitian gangs expand control, cop’s family is left shaken

‘I can’t sleep at the house anymore because I don’t know what could happen to us.’

A photo of missing Haitian police Officer Ricken Staniclasse is held by his 11-year-old son at their home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023. One of Haiti’s gangs stormed a key part of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, and battled with police throughout the day, leaving at least three officers dead and another missing. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaks during the North America Summit, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

VIDEO: Trudeau sidesteps U.S. demands on Haiti as ‘Three Amigos’ summit wraps up

Trudeau wouldn’t commit to next steps on aiding the gang-ravaged country

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaks during the North America Summit, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)