Dozens killed in Haiti in two weeks of gun battles, thousands flee homes
Miami, US/Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Gun battles between rival gangs in Port-au-Prince have killed dozens in the past two weeks and forced thousands to flee their homes, Haiti’s civil protection authority and a UN agency said. The Chen Mechan and 400 Mawozo gangs, the latter of which kidnapped a group of US and Canadian missionaries last year, […]
El Salvador extends emergency powers to fight gangs
San Salvador, El SalvadorReuters El Salvador’s Congress on Sunday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings. The measures, which enact emergency powers to limit some constitutional rights, went into effect late last month […]