Haiti: Spike in weapons smuggled into country from US [View all]
Source: BBC
Haiti: Spike in weapons smuggled into country from US
By Vanessa Buschschlüter
BBC News
18 August 2022
US officials say there has been a surge of high-powered weapons being smuggled from Florida to Haiti.
The Caribbean country has been rocked by brutal gang warfare in which hundreds of people have been killed in the past six weeks alone.
A US federal agent said that the number of weapons illegally shipped to Haiti had risen to unprecedented levels.
Haitian police have complained about being outgunned and outnumbered in their fights with gang members.
US Special Agent Anthony Salisbury, who is in charge of Homeland Security Investigations, told reporters at a news conference in Miami that "not only have we seen a marked uptick in the number of weapons, but a serious increase in the calibre and type of firearms being illegally trafficked".
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Special Agent Anthony Salisbury displayed some of the weapons seized that had been destined for Haiti (Reuters)
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