Dozens were killed last weekend as gangs swept through rural Haitian communities. The violence came just as the new U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force began trickling into the country.
Haiti has been in freefall for years, and every international intervention follows the same script: announce a force, deploy a fraction of it, watch the gangs adapt faster than the bureaucracy. The same Kenyan-led mission was recently implicated in four substantiated cases of sexual abuse. This is the entity tasked with restoring order. Meanwhile, Haiti's collapse fuels migration flows toward the U.S. southern border — a connection Washington refuses to address structurally.
🔎 Source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/world/americas/haiti-gang-massacre.html
Haiti has been in freefall for years, and every international intervention follows the same script: announce a force, deploy a fraction of it, watch the gangs adapt faster than the bureaucracy. The same Kenyan-led mission was recently implicated in four substantiated cases of sexual abuse. This is the entity tasked with restoring order. Meanwhile, Haiti's collapse fuels migration flows toward the U.S. southern border — a connection Washington refuses to address structurally.
🔎 Source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/world/americas/haiti-gang-massacre.html