David Adams

Mar 15, 2025 | nytimes.com | David Adams

Two days before last Christmas, Dr. Pierre S. Prince took an exciting new job as director of Haiti's largest public hospital, which the United States spent tens of millions of dollars renovating and is so deep in gang territory that it has been closed for a year. Dr. Prince, a 57-year-old thoracic surgeon, looked forward to returning to the State University Hospital of Haiti, which had been ravaged by the 2010 earthquake that decimated the country's capital.

Jan 3, 2025 | nytimes.com | Debra Kamin |David Adams

Mr. Alexander's brother, Oren Alexander, was granted a hearing extension by a judge in Miami. A third brother, Tal Alexander, was denied bail on related charges in December. Alon Alexander, one of three brothers facing federal sex trafficking charges, was denied bail in a Miami courtroom on Friday after a judge ruled that his request for at-home pretrial detention allowed too much risk that he could flee the country.

Dec 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | David Adams |Andre Paultre

The journalists shot on Monday had been invited by government officials to attend the reopening at the hospital complex, which is in a former gang stronghold. They were awaiting the arrival of Haiti's minister of public health, Dr. Duckenson Lorthe Blema, along with a bus organized by the government to carry more journalists to the site. But gang members were also apparently lying in wait. And the minister never made it to the hospital. Around 11 a.m., the witnesses said, the crowd was ambushed.

Dec 10, 2024 | sightmagazine.com.au | Brendan O'Boyle |David Adams

Mexico City, MexicoReutersA federal congressman was assassinated late on Monday in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the latest killing in an outbreak of political violence in the country. The Veracruz Attorney General’s office confirmed the death of Benito Aguas, a member of the leftist government’s ruling coalition in the 500-member lower house of Congress, in a post on social media.

Dec 10, 2024 | sightmagazine.com.au | David Adams

Vienna, AustriaReutersHuman trafficking has risen sharply due to conflicts, climate-induced disasters and global crises, according to a United Nations report published on Wednesday. In 2022, the latest year for which data is widely available, the number of known victims worldwide rose to 25 per cent above 2019’s pre-pandemic levels, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Report on Trafficking in Persons said. A sharp fall in 2020 had largely disappeared by the following year.