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According to what the Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) reported to the UN Security Council, approximately 300 gangs exist in Haiti and 80% of Port-au-Prince is under direct control or under influence of powerful gangs.
For Jovenel Moïse, the wanton brutality of police crackdowns isn’t even a necessary evil, but a display of his commitment to the programs he promises will serve the best interest of the Haitian populace.
haiti, the man whose family stole as much as a billion dollars from one of the neediest countries in the world. from the $500 million we documented, which are probably half of the money which has been embezzled by mr. duvalier and his wife and their accomplices, we have evidence that they transferred abroad $120 million. reporter: gilles august is the attorney who was hired to get the money back. and he s talking about this man, jean claude duvalier, known as baby doc. but it was really a father and son act. baby doc s father was a brutal dictator known as papa doc duvalier. he began their nearly 30-year crime spree in the 1950s. they had a vicious secret militia, the tonton makout. roughly translated, it means the bogey men. under their reign of terror, as many as 60,000 haitians were killed. after his father died, baby doc took larceny to a new level, especially after he married his
in search of the man who wrecked haiti, the man whose xleem stole as much as a billion dollars from one of the neediest countries in the world. from the $500 million we documented, which are probably half of the money which has been embezzled by mr. duvalier and his wife and their accomplices, we have evidence that they transferred abroad $120 million. reporter: gilles august is the attorney who was hired to get the money back. and he s talking about this man, jean claude duvalier, known as baby doc. but it was really a father and son act. baby doc s father was a brutal dictator known as papa doc duvalier. he began their nearly 30-year crime spree in the 1950s. they had a vicious secret militia, the tonton makout. roughly translated, it means the