G9 coalition gang members ride a motorcycle through the Wharf Jeremy street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, October 6, 2021. While some gangs have turned to kidnapping, like those who captured 17 missionaries and their relatives, Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, a former policeman who leads the G9 gang coalition, has taken control of the port district, gaining a stranglehold on the country’s economy. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
A private security guard stands watch as an employee opens up shop in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, early Monday morning, September 27, 2021. For decades, the country was ruled by political strongmen supported by armed gangs; since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the state collapsed.. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
Flanked by members of the G9 gang coalition, leader Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, right, talks to reporters near the perimeter wall that encloses Terminal Varreux, the port owned by the Mevs family, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, October 6, 2021. Barbecue, a former policeman, fancies himself a man of the people and an enemy of the elite. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
Neighbors gather outside their homes built with recycled metal sheets in the Bellecour-Cite Soleil shanty town of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, October 1, 2021. Bellecour-Cité Soleil, a neighborhood of tin shacks without water, electricity or any basic services, is the stronghold of Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, a former policeman who leads the G9 gang coalition. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
A man jumps over loose bricks forming part of a barricade, a block away from the front lines that divide gang-controlled territories in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, October 5, 2021. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, a former policeman who leads the G9 gang coalition, visits with friends as they play a game of dominoes in the Cite Soleil shantytown of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, October 3, 2021. Despite all appearances, he says he is not positioning himself for a political career. He claims not to have any political affiliation or party and says he does not see himself “as a candidate in a system that I see as corrupt”. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
Businesswoman Magalie Dresse does a side plank during her morning yoga routine in the garden of her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Dresse lives in an elegant home in the heart of the capital, where she does yoga in the morning. “I need the strength to go out there and handle what I’m going to find, which is not going to be positive”. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
A boy crouches to avoid the camera as he runs past the body of a man killed during clashes between police and gang members, in the Martissant neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, October 2, 2021. Haitian gangs have seized control of more land and committed more crimes than ever before – all without a care. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
Barbecue, the leader of the “G9 and Family” gang, sits on garbage to call attention to the conditions people live in as he leads a march against kidnapping through La Saline neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, October 22, 2021. The group said they were also protesting poverty and for justice in the slaying of President Jovenel Moise. (Photo by Joseph Odelyn/AP Photo)
Supporters of the “G9 and Family” gang join the group’s march through La Saline neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, October 22, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
A boy stands on a bridge of a normally busy main road in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, October 23, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
A man balances his motorbike tank on his head as he waits outside a gas station in hopes of filling his tank, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, October 23, 2021. The ongoing fuel shortage has worsened, with demonstrators blocking roads and burning tires in Haiti’s capital to decry the severe shortage and a spike in insecurity. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
An armed police officer stands outside a gas station after police shot bullets into the air to disperse a crowd threatening to burn down the gas station because the crowd believed the station was withholding gas, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, October 23, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
People run for cover as police shoot into the air to disperse a crowd threatening to burn down a gas station because they believed the station was withholding the gas, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, October 23, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
A girl rests on a bed as she listens to music at the Saint Damien Pediatric Hospital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, October 24, 2021. Haiti’s capital has been brought to the brink of exhaustion by fuel shortages and the capital’s main pediatrics hospital says it has only three days of fuel left to run ventilators and medical equipment. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
Market goers walk past as a man salvages goods from a mound of garbage at the Marche Lacoupe market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 24, 2021. (Photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters)
Women sell goods along the roadside at the at the Marche Lacoupe market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 23, 2021. (Photo by Claudia Daut/Reuters)
People kneel outside the Justice Ministry to demand the resignation of Minister Liszt Quitel to protest kidnappings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Worker unions along with residents called for a general strike to demand the end of kidnappings, violence and insecurity in the streets. (Photo by Joseph Odelyn/AP Photo)
Locals await for gasoline next to covered fuel pumps at a gas station during fuel shortages in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 24, 2021. (Photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters)
Residents walk in front of a plume of smoke during fuel shortages in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 26, 2021. (Photo by Adrees Latif/Reuters)
