Haitian Prime Minister Tries to Return Home to Quell Explosion of Gang Violence

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Authorities have ordered a nighttime curfew in an attempt to regain control of Haiti's streets after an explosion of violence during the weekend, including gunmen from gangs overrunning the country's two biggest prisons and freeing their inmates.

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00:00 [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

00:25 I've been working in and on around Haiti for 30 years now,

00:29 and I've never, ever seen it this bad.

00:31 It's absolutely catastrophic.

00:33 It being the human rights situation,

00:35 the humanitarian situation, the lack

00:37 of any kind of political anything,

00:40 discussions, negotiations.

00:42 There needs to be an international force

00:44 of some shape, size, and form, because the Haitian National

00:48 Police is not powerful enough to take on the gangs themselves.

00:53 There are all kinds of reasons for that.

00:55 You have another problem that the US

00:57 needs to do in terms of being more active and assertive

01:00 is stopping the flow of guns and munitions to Haiti.

01:04 There's not a single gun or bullet

01:06 that's manufactured in Haiti.

01:08 Almost all of it comes from the United States.

01:11 A lot of it directly from the port of Miami.

01:14 The balance of it comes from the United States

01:16 through either Jamaica or the Dominican Republic,

01:18 but basically all gets traced back to the United States.

01:21 That's something we could do right now.

01:24 (audience laughing)

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