Haiti

A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

Since a cache of high-power guns was seized in Port-au-Prince last year, a baroque conspiracy has emerged that showcases the Florida links to Haiti's heavily armed gangs.

The U.N. says gangs are invading Haiti’s rural central region and suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country’s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes.

A multinational security force is expected to arrive in 2024 following a vote last month at the UN Security Council. But some in South Florida's Haitian community point to the failures of previous peacekeeping missions in the country, and fear for their families back home.

Haiti's law enforcement authorities say a member of a violent gang accused of kidnapping four U.S. citizens has been extradited to the U.S. Haiti’s National Police on Tuesday identified the individual as Jhon Peter Fleronvil who is affiliated with the gang known as “Kokorat San Ras."

Kenya's parliament has approved the deployment of 1000 police officers to Haiti to help deal with rising gang violence in the Caribbean nation.

Fontaine Hospital Center in the Cite Soleil slum has been considered an oasis in a community overrun by gangs that have unleashed increasingly violent attacks against each other and civilians.

Tananarive Due is a novelist who writes in the genre of Black horror. She’ll be presenting two books at the Miami Book Fair this weekend, including her latest The Reformatory.

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books including Krik Krak and Brother, I’m Dying, which were finalists for the National Book Awards. She was born in Haiti and calls Miami home. She’s being honored at the Miami Book Fair’s 40th anniversary celebration.

Haiti’s government has banned all charter flights to Nicaragua that migrants fleeing poverty and violence had been increasingly using in their quest to reach the United States.

A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a retired Colombian army officer to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple, which left a woman dead.