Michael Deibert

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“Barbecue has made vague demands of a more just and equitable system, but of course the irony of this whole situation is that the armed groups in the capital and around are creating the hell that people are living through. Barbecue claims to have united Port-au-Prince's notoriously quarrelsome gangs in a coalition called Viv Ansanm (Live Together). It is hard to verify that claim. But while so far no rival gang leader has denied it, any alliance is likely to be short-lived. These groups feud mercilessly with one another all the time. The gangs appear to have found a modus vivendi while they try to tear down the pillars of the state. To what end I'm not exactly clear.”

Bbc

Journalist, author and researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE)