Haitian gangs

COMMENTARY Vigilantism is an understandable response to relentless violent crime, but Latin America shows it worsens the plague — as it likely will in Haiti if the world doesn't step up.

As Haiti's women's team heads to the World Cup for the first time, soccer is now a source of national pride — and a tool for preventing youth recruitment by powerful gangs.

Police and witnesses say the mob in the Port-au-Prince beat and burned the men to death with gasoline-soaked tires after pulling them from police custody at a traffic stop.

At a time when democracy has withered in Haiti and gang violence has spiraled out of control, armed men like Jimmy Cherizier – known by the nickname Barbecue - have filled the power vacuum left by a crumbling government.

As violent gangs rule more and more neighborhoods in Haiti, some business owners are contriving ways to help keep workers safe, fed, sheltered and less traumatized.

Special new — and U.S.-backed — Haitian National Police units are reclaiming control of a key fuel terminal from violent gangs. But will it weaken those criminals?

After another wave of horrific gang murders, Haitians are demanding new government. What, if anything, can the U.S. and the international community do at this point?

Homeland Security Investigations and other agencies are battling a 'marked uptick' in gun smuggling to Haiti, with an increase in both the quantity and the caliber of weapons.

COMMENTARY The Organization of American States' rant about the international community's epic failures in Haiti sounds hypocritical — but necessary nonetheless.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to threaten sanctions against those shipping weapons and ammunition to the gangs that have overrun Haiti.

After a gang took control of a Port-au-Prince courthouse this week, the U.N.'s top Haiti official is urging more help for the country's threadbare police.

One of Haiti's most important cultural cradles is in the grip of one of its most violent street gangs. It's a stark reminder why the country's collapse needs a solution.