In the past, he posed in front of pictures of Che Guevara, an Argentinian socialist revolutionary leader. We are an armed political group,” the gang leader said last week.
Even Cherizier claims that his gang is more a political community than an organised crime group. Interestingly, one of the biggest gangs has been led by a former policeman, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, whose group has blocked the country’s biggest fuel terminal to distribute gasoline, creating large shortages across Haiti.Ĭherizier demands the country’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign and hand over 50 million dollars to him in order to restore fuel distribution across Haiti. Much of the country’s capital Port-au-Prince has been run by brutal gangs, whose strength has recently grown as they appear to outnumber Haiti’s security forces in both membership and armament.
Haiti, one of the world’s poorest countries, has been witnessing one of its darkest days after the country’s President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in July by highly-skilled foreign mercenaries who purportedly had enigmatic connections to the US and Colombia. Armed gangs controlling nearly half of the capital, Port-au-Prince, also block the country’s largest fuel terminal, leading to a nationwide fuel shortage.
