Jimmy Cherizier, the leader of the G9 Family and Allies gang network in Haiti. Haiti’s decades of gang violence have been well documented due to the long history of bloody coups and political instability. A 13-year bloody revolution led by former slave Jean-Jacques Dessalines forced the French to grant Haiti independence after more than 400 years of European occupation. Western nations who were at the time enforcing brutal, racist colonial systems around the world immediately treated Haiti as a pariah. This unfair compensation to France for Haiti’s independence has over the last two centuries had significant and lasting repercussions.

Source: Daily Nation December 05, 2023 03:59 UTC