World‘Shockwaves throughout the country’ after ‘gruesome’ killings in Haitian mountain retreat

Journalist Harold Isaac says Haiti is facing more than another outbreak of gang violence: the killings challenge state authority as the country tries to return to electoral politics. Armed groups control about 80 percent of Port-au-Prince, and the Kenscoff attack is particularly significant because it occurred near some of Haiti’s wealthiest areas, as authorities prepare the country’s first elections in a decade.

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