Violence in Haiti
A Camiliian priest, Father Antonio Menegón, told the Vatican news agency Fides in December 2022 that currently armed gangs are running the country and also attacking Catholic schools and hospitals.
“Unprecedented” violence is spreading throughout Haiti, Menegón reported.
The priest warned that this situation creates “insecurity, fear, hunger, and despair and as if that were not enough, the cholera emergency has returned, which especially kills children.”
Menegón explained that “the armed gangs that rule the country are increasingly aggressive and now they run everything. The prices of primary goods, such as food, fuel, and medicine, have more than tripled.”
“Violent youths have destroyed, looted, and burned fuel depots, as well as supermarkets, churches, Caritas food banks, and other international humanitarian organizations. Hospitals, one after another, are closing due to lack of fuel, electricity, food, and medicine,” he lamented.