[Biden immigration alert...] Haiti orders a curfew after gangs overrun its two largest prisons. Thousands have escaped

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have ordered a nighttime 
curfew after an explosion of violence when gang gunmen overran the two 
biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend.

A 72-hour state of emergency began Sunday night. The government said it 
would set out to find the killers, kidnappers and other criminals who 
fled.

“The police were ordered to use all legal means at their disposal to 
enforce the curfew and apprehend all offenders,” said a statement from 
Finance Minister Patrick Boivert, the acting prime minister.

Gangs already were estimated to control up to 80% of Port-au-Prince, the 
capital. They are increasingly coordinating their actions and choosing 
once unthinkable targets like the Central Bank.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry traveled abroad last week to try to salvage 
support for a United Nations-backed security force to help stabilize Haiti 
in its conflict with the increasingly powerful crime groups.

Haiti’s National Police has roughly 9,000 officers to provide security for 
more than 11 million people, according to the U.N. They are routinely 
overwhelmed and outgunned.

The deadly weekend marked a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of 
violence. At least nine people had been killed since Thursday — four of 
them police officers — as gangs stepped up coordinated attacks on state 
institutions in Port-au-Prince, including the international airport and 
national soccer stadium.

But the attack on the National Penitentiary late Saturday shocked Haitians 
who are accustomed to living under the constant threat of violence.

Almost all of the estimated 4,000 inmates escaped. Three bodies with 
gunshot wounds lay at the prison entrance Sunday.

In another neighborhood, the bloodied corpses of two men with their hands 
tied behind the backs lay face down as residents walked past roadblocks 
set up with burning tires.

Among the few dozen people who chose to stay in prison are 18 former 
Colombian soldiers accused of working as mercenaries in the July 2021 
assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

“Please, please help us,” one of the men, Francisco Uribe, said in a 
message widely shared on social media. “They are massacring people 
indiscriminately inside the cells.”

Colombia’s foreign ministry has called on Haiti to provide “special 
protection” for the men.

A second Port-au-Prince prison containing around 1,400 inmates was also 
overrun.

Gunfire was reported in several neighborhoods in the capital. Internet 
service for many residents was down as Haiti’s top mobile network said a 
fiber optic cable connection was slashed during the rampage.

After gangs opened fire at Haiti’s international airport last week, the 
U.S. Embassy said it was halting all official travel to the country. On 
Sunday night, it urged all American citizens to depart as soon as 
possible.

The Biden administration, which has refused to commit troops to any 
multinational force for Haiti while offering money and logistical support, 
said it was monitoring the rapidly deteriorating security situation with 
grave concern.

The surge in attacks follows violent protests that turned deadlier in 
recent days as the prime minister went to Kenya seeking to move ahead on 
the proposed U.N.-backed security mission to be led by that East African 
country.

Henry took over as prime minister following Moise’s assassination and has 
postponed plans to hold parliamentary and presidential elections, which 
haven’t happened in almost a decade.

Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue who now 
runs a gang federation, has claimed responsibility for the surge in 
attacks. He said the goal is to capture Haiti’s police chief and 
government ministers and prevent Henry’s return.

The prime minister, a neurosurgeon, has shrugged off calls for him to 
resign and didn’t comment when asked if he felt it was safe to come home.


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