GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said at the U.N. General Assembly that his country would send 150 military police officers to help
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Haiti’s ruling council moves to fire prime minister, endangering U.S.-backed transition
PORT-AU-PRINCE — As the United Nations warned Friday that famine is spreading to new areas of Haiti amid the country’s worsening hunger and gang crises,
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Haitian activists demand halt to deportations as gang violence and poverty soar
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian activists on Thursday demanded that other countries temporarily stop deportations to their country due to a surge in gang violence and
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Lawyer seeks release of Haiti cop accused of police killing while protecting Blinken
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The lawyer for a jailed senior Haiti policeman accused of planning the assassination of a motorcycle driver with alleged gang ties is demanding
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El Salvador’s congress approves sending troop contingent to Haiti
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress approved a proposal to send a contingent of soldiers to Haiti under the auspices of the
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UN report warns of famine, aggravated by conflicts and climate shocks
ROME (AP) — Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable areas, including the Palestinian territories, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali,
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More than 1,200 have been killed in Haiti as gangs launch fresh attacks, UN says
PORT-AU-PRINCE — There is no sleeping inside Port-au-Prince’s Solino neighborhood. Since members of a powerful gang coalition began carrying out a new round of violent
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A key police veteran in Haiti’s gang wars, senior cop is now fighting for his freedom
PORT-AU-PRINCE — As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traversed Haiti’s gang-controlled capital in early September, a sinister plot was unfolding. On the afternoon of
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U.S. deportation flight lands in Haiti amid spreading violence, attack on Catholic nuns
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Days after a Catholic mission that treats up to 30,000 poor people a year became the latest target of armed gangs in a
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Haiti sees a rise in killings and police executions with children targeted
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Some 1,740 people were reported killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30% increase over the previous trimester,
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