Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 pledging to cut down on gang violence, but killings last month reached the same historic highs as when he first started his presidency. With his tenure set to end and elections set for June 2, cartels have stepped up their bloody turf wars against one another, and residents are caught in the crossfire. Read more from the Associated Press.
La répression au Salvador pousse les membres des gangs vers le Honduras
Un peu moins répressif que son voisin, le #Honduras tente également de lutter contre les #gangs présents sur son territoire et de contenir une immigration de délinquants fuyant la «main de fer» déployée par le président salvadorien.
Officials in Haiti are scrambling to secure the National Palace in Port-au-Prince for tomorrow, where members of a transitional council tasked with selecting a new prime minister are demanding to be sworn in. The insistence the ceremony take place at the palace is seen as an attempt by the government to demonstrate its control over a city still plagued by violence, and gangs have vowed to disrupt the proceedings. The Associated Press has more on state of the Haitian capital.
The United Nations says more than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in the past three weeks as gang violence consumes the city. Most of those escaping Port-au-Prince are going to the country’s southern region, where officials say there is not enough infrastructure or resources to handle them. At least 1,500 people have been killed and 17,000 have been left homeless since March 22, according to the U.N. Read more from NBC News.
Wenn man die heutige Titelstory der Reichweitenstärksten Zeitung der #schweiz liest. Hat man das Gefühl das #Deutschland kurz vor dem totalen Kollaps steht:
US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence (www.theguardian.com)
Washington says no despite ‘frantic’ talks between diplomats, as bodies lie in street and army battles gun-toting gang members