Efforts to help Haitians suffer new blow with kidnapping of American nurse and daughter
Haiti's gangs have grown in power since the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise and are now estimated to control up to 80 per cent of the capital. Hundreds of people have been reported kidnapped since January, a significant uptick from previous years. The surge in killings, rapes and kidnappings has led to a violent uprising by civilian vigilante groups.
Witnesses told The Associated Press that Alix Dorsainvil was working in the small brick clinic late last week when armed men burst in and seized her. Lormina Louima, who was waiting for a check-up, said one man pulled out his gun and told her to relax.Some members of the community said the unidentified men had asked for US$1 million ransom, a standard practice of the gangs killing and sowing terror in Haiti's impoverished populace.
"If they leave, everything will shut down," Ronald worried. "The money they are asking for, we don't have it." In a video for the El Roi Haiti website, Alix Dorsainvil describes Haitians as "full of joy, and life and love" and people she was blessed to know.
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