The group, with the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, had just visited an orphanage.įBI part of 'coordinated US government effort' to free missionaries Haiti's turmoil reached the global spotlight Saturday when 17 people – seven women, five men, five children, all Americans except one Canadian – were seized in the community of Ganthier east of the capital.
The overwhelming number of cases involved Haitians, and gaudy financial demands are often negotiated down to thousands of dollars – still a lot of money in a nation that by most metrics ranks as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. More than 300 kidnappings were reported to Haitian police in the first eight months of 2021. The result has been gang rule, and abductions have become part of everyday life in Haiti. That crisis, along with an August earthquake that killed more than 2,200 and destroyed more than 130,000 homes, has fueled a near-total collapse of civil order. “We are calling on authorities to take action,” he said.īold criminal activity was rampant even before the July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse at his home.
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Striking taxi driver Jean-Louis Abaki said Prime Minister Ariel Henry and National Police Chief Léon Charles "have to give the population a chance at security" if they want to keep their jobs. Unions and other groups vowed to continue the shutdown. The streets of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, were oddly quiet and largely empty Monday as the protest shuttered businesses, schools and public transportation. Watch Video: US missionaries kidnapped in Haiti after building an orphanageĪ wide-ranging strike in protest of the abductions, violence and lawlessness consuming battered Haiti stretched into a second day Tuesday amid reports that a powerful gang was demanding a $17 million ransom for 16 Americans and a Canadian kidnapped three days ago.