Denis Staunton's guide to understanding world events - what’s happening, why it matters and how it affects you
Haiti is spiralling deeper into violence, cruelty and chaos as the state loses control to hundreds of armed gangs. Donald Trump’s deportation plans could make things worse.
A spiral of cruelty and chaos
Last Saturday, in a low-key ceremony inside a heavily fortified building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s transitional presidential council handed power to prime minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé. The prime minister is now the only politician with executive power in a country that has been spiralling dow
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