The Documentary Podcast

BBC OS Conversations: Haiti gangs and stray bullets

Mar 16, 2024 · 23 min · 11.4 MB
0:00-23:50

Streams straight from the publisher. podnod never proxies or re-hosts episode audio.

Haiti is facing its most most acute humanitarian crisis for more than a decade. There’s been a surge in violence with armed gangs in control of most of the capital. The prime minister has resigned, there’s a month long state of emergency and a curfew has been extended. The gangs have destroyed police buildings and, after storming a prison in the capital Port-au-Prince, thousands of escaped prisoners are back on the streets. Hosted by Lukwesa Burak and Luke Jones, they hear from Haitians caught up in this latest violence