The Gangster Warlords of Haiti's Collapse with Jason Motlagh

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Haiti's gangs have effectively taken over the country, plunging into chaos and violence as warring gangster warlords like the infamous Barbeque fight for territorial control. In February gangs stormed police stations, shot up the airport and freed thousands of prisoners after storming the country's biggest prisons, causing a humanitarian crisis. Things have gotten so bad that Kenya is sending in 1,000 police officers to try to regain some sort of control. We're joined by reporter Jason Motlagh, who's been reporting down there for years and has hung out with Barbeque before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	teas and sees apply. It's May 29th, 2023 in the Haitian capital of Port of Prince.
0:37.0	A doctor's without borders hospital, as good as it gets in a city gutted by natural disaster, disease, political turmoil, and more recently,
0:47.0	one of the world's bloodiest gang wars.
0:50.4	Lordy Deney already suffered under the violence once in 2019,
0:54.0	when mobsters torched his soft drinks store in the neighborhood of Bel Air
0:58.0	with Molotov cocktails and shot him in the foot and groin.
1:02.0	Those guys belong to the G9, a conglomerate of gangs united
1:06.8	under the leadership of a former cop named Jimmy Charyseer, aka barbecue, that swept
1:12.3	through shanties and cinder block hoods
1:14.7	to become Porter Prince's most powerful organization,
1:18.0	arguably even more so than the government itself.
1:21.4	The war ramped up in 2021 when Haitian President Jovinele
1:25.9	Moise was slaughtered at his residence. Now, Paul to Perrance, is a full-blown conflict zone,
1:32.2	buildings in ruins.
1:34.2	It's front line shifting from day to day
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