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2 days ago | 
tmj4.com | Jason Bellini |Ingrid Arnesen |Linda Pattillo |Tony Aria
Haiti’s paramilitary gangs are expanding unchecked, armed with weapons of war and undeterred by the international security force funded by millions in U.S. aid. Since Scripps News' reporting from Haiti’s capital a year ago, where we documented child soldiers and survivors of sexual violence, urban warlords have seized even more ground: an estimated 90% of Port-au-Prince.
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3 weeks ago | 
scrippsnews.com | Jason Bellini |Ingrid Arnesen |Linda Pattillo
Christmas Eve in Port-au-Prince was supposed to be a fragile moment of hope. Haiti’s largest public hospital, once gutted by paramilitary gangs, was reopening. Journalists gathered to cover it — a rare symbol of renewal. But instead, the gangs ambushed them. It was a calculated act of terror, meant not just to destabilize, but to silence. In Haiti today, the press badge doesn’t protect you. It paints a target on your chest.
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3 weeks ago | 
tmj4.com | Jason Bellini |Ingrid Arnesen |Linda Pattillo |Tony Aria
Christmas Eve in Port-au-Prince was supposed to be a fragile moment of hope. Haiti’s largest public hospital, once gutted by paramilitary gangs, was reopening. Journalists gathered to cover it — a rare symbol of renewal. But instead, the gangs ambushed them. It was a calculated act of terror, meant not just to destabilize, but to silence. In Haiti today, the press badge doesn’t protect you. It paints a target on your chest.
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1 month ago | 
scrippsnews.com | Jason Bellini |Ingrid Arnesen |Linda Pattillo
As Haiti descends deeper into lawlessness, a group of orphans has found safety in the mountains of the country’s north after fleeing relentless gang violence in Port-au-Prince that has displaced over a million Haitians. Didi Ananda, a 61-year-old nun originally from Spain, led the evacuation of 33 children in her care as armed groups closed in on their neighborhood. “At one moment, I said, ‘Let’s move,’” she told Scripps News.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
msn.com | Ryan Dube |Ingrid Arnesen
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Carlos Ramirez |Ingrid Arnesen |Carlos Ramírez
Pausing assistance to crime-battered countries like Haiti, Colombia and Ecuador may worsen issues the Trump administration is focused on, regional officials sayFor his second term in office, President Trump has pledged to crack down on migration and go after violent drug cartels, putting a renewed focus south of the border where he had also threatened to take back the Panama Canal and prepared to impose tariffs of up to 25% on imports from Mexico.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Ingrid Arnesen
The mountain trail south of Haiti’s capital was long used only by farmers hauling strawberries to market and the rare adventurous hiker. It passes bucolic highland pine forests and follows rugged cliff-side paths in a place so remote it is known to locals as “where even the dogs don’t go.”Now, it is one of the last ways to escape Port-au-Prince, the capital city where violent gangs have cut off other road and sea routes for fleeing Haitians.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Ryan Dube |Ingrid Arnesen
About 10 women and three infants were killed in the massacre, the U.N.’s human rights office said. A doctor at the nearby Saint-Nicolas Hospital said the facility was overwhelmed with injured victims who had been slashed with machetes.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Kejal Vyas |Ingrid Arnesen
At the same time, Haiti’s beleaguered police force is trying to wage an all-out offensive, going door-to-door hunting for warlords who maintain control over 85% of the capital city, Port-au-Prince. It is doing so with one of the lowest police-per-capita ratios in the world, Conille said. Newsletter Sign-upWhat’s NewsCatch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox daily. Enjoy a free article in every edition.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
scrippsnews.com | Jason Bellini |Linda Pattillo |Ingrid Arnesen
Haiti is a nation that seems to be permanently at a crossroads between hope for some kind of stability and outright anarchy. It’s now the latter. Just 700 nautical miles from the U.S., violent paramilitary gangs commit widespread and severe human rights atrocities to maintain their unprecedented power. Scripps News’ international correspondent Jason Bellini traveled to Port-au-Prince to document the human toll of Haiti’s descent into anarchy.
