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Gang violence and the dire humanitarian crisis in Haiti

Internally displaced people at the Ministry of Communication in Port-au-Prince, interviewed by journalists, March 9, 2024.
Internally displaced people at the Ministry of Communication in Port-au-Prince, interviewed by journalists, March 9, 2024.

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss the unfolding humanitarian and political crisis in Haiti.

More than 1,500 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti this year, according to the UN. Haiti also faces an ongoing humanitarian crisis, with UNICEF warning that "countless children" could die due to malnutrition and a lack of health care. Nearly five million people -- almost half the country's population -- have been driven into "high levels of acute food insecurity" since a surge in gang-linked violence, according to a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.

Guests:

Amy Wilentz, contributing editor at The Nation

Wethzer Piercin, reporter at AyiboPost

Resources:

The Nation: Haiti’s Hour of Deliverance or Despair

AyiboPost: Many of the victims lived in camps, after being forced to flee gang violence

AyiboPost: Exclusive | What really happened at the Haitian National Penitentiary?

The Washington Post: The history of foreign intervention in Haiti is ugly

The Washington Post: How the gang leader ‘Barbecue’ became one of Haiti’s most powerful men

Malihe Razazan is the senior producer of KALW's daily call-in program, Your Call.
Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.