Haiti’s Gangs are Taking Over. The Trump Administration is Making It Worse.

In the Caribbean nation of Haiti, the gangs are running the show. The capital city of Port-au-Prince has long since fallen to a powerful criminal coalition called Vive En Charme. Around 1.5 million people have been displaced, around half of them children, and the gangs are expanding outward into cities and districts that were once thought to be safe.

The country's leadership is utterly incapable of controlling the crisis, and the Haitian armed forces hardly qualify as a military at all. For the rest of the world promised relief, its forces have largely failed to show up - not just once, but twice in a row.

The death toll is rising by the day, the gangs are only growing more sophisticated with time, and Haiti is just one viral outbreak, one decisive defeat, or possibly just one badly timed hurricane away from a crisis of an even greater scale.