Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Gang violence in Haiti: Life at a standstill
Audio 7:30 p.m.
An armored police van in downtown Port-au-Prince, where gangs fought intense gun battles, July 27, 2022. (Illustration) © REUTERS - RALPH TEDY EROL
By: Mikael Ponge
3 mins
For 2 years, Haiti has been facing generalized insecurity which prevents any normal life, and paralyzes the functioning of several sectors of activity.
Violence and insecurity that weigh on all parts of society, starting with the health sector.
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In the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, surviving has now become a more appropriate term than living.
No one, no sector of society is spared the violence that criminal gangs have gradually imposed.
“We can no longer go to work because it is difficult to get to certain areas.
I have to stay idle, because I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to me in the streets either,”
explains for example James Pierre who works in the field of construction.
Pediatrician Ernestine Isaac Chérie can no longer travel across the country, to remote areas, to meet patients.
The insecurity in the Haitian capital is also hitting the mental health of doctors hard after the kidnappings, of which several of them were victims at their place of work, she explains.
In Port-au-Prince, the report by
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