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Operation against the bastion of ‘Barbecue’ ends with alleged criminals killed in Haiti
The police operation carried out these days in the bastion of gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, alias ‘Barbecue’, in Haiti ended in the death of several members of the coalition of armed groups Vivre Ensemble (Live Together) and allowed the seizure of firearms, drones, cars, motorcycles and drugs.
According to the Haitian National Police (PNH), specialized units intensified efforts in the operation in the capital area of Bas Delmas, where the ‘Barbecue’ headquarters is located, in order to dismantle the Vivre Ensemble coalition.
Law enforcement killed several criminals in the exchange of gunfire and arrested an unspecified number of gang members.
Impact for the criminal gang
As for the seizures, the deputy spokesman of the PNH, Lionel Lazarre, said that they confiscated 13 firearms (including a Kalashnikov rifle), three drones, seven cars, three motorcycles and substances that seem to correspond to marijuana.
Lazarre said that, “as part of a series of operations carried out in the West department (where Port-au-Prince is located), significant progress has already been made” and said that a series of measures have been adopted to dismantle the armed gangs that terrorize Haiti and that control around 85% of the capital.
In presenting the operations carried out throughout Haiti – including the West department, where the ‘Barbecue’ headquarters is located, in Delmas 2 and Delmas – the deputy spokesman assured that joint actions with the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) continued.
Increased police operations against organized crime in Haiti
The Police are intensifying operations in the West department (specifically in several areas of the Puerto Príncipe metropolitan region) and in others such as Artibonito, North, Center and Southeast, with the aim of dismantling powerful armed groups.
As part of these actions in the country, the police arrested alleged gang members and people involved in self-exass, shot about twenty alleged gang members, took control of police buildings, dismantled a car theft network, issued arrest warrants and seized thousands of ammunition cartridges.
For its part, the multinational mission announced that it has established its third advanced operational base in the building that housed the General Inspectorate of the Haitian National Police in Bas Delmas, in order to “secure the coast and the surrounding areas.”
In a statement, the MSS stressed that “the police quickly and firmly repelled the gangs’ attempts to disrupt the installation of the base, ending the resistance as soon as it began.”
Call to the international community
This operational base, he said, is “an essential resource in the fight against the activity of the gangs in the region” and will serve as a center of strategic support, improving response times in key areas such as the national port, the Delmas district or vulnerable coasts.
These are areas exploited by the gangs for arms and drug trafficking, activities that finance their violent operations, he said.
With this base (the third established by the multinational mission after those installed in the Police Academy and in Pont-Sondé, in Artibonito), the MSS wants to “bring security closer to citizens”, determined to “return Haiti to its former splendor and to guarantee the security and well-being” of Haitians.
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Thirteen cuban military members missing after explosion at arms warehouse
Thirteen members of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) have been reported “missing” following an explosion at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the eastern part of the island, the military institution announced.
“As a result of the explosions at an arms and ammunition warehouse in the Melones community… in the province of Holguín, 730 km east of Havana,” two officers, two non-commissioned officers, and nine soldiers are reported as “missing,” according to a statement from the Ministry of the Armed Forces released by Cuban state television.
The statement specified that “investigations are still ongoing at the site,” which led to the evacuation of more than 1,200 residents from areas near the warehouse of a military unit where “aged ammunition was being classified.”
Neither the official press nor Cuban state television have provided images of the explosions at the military unit, but independent media outlets published photos online showing a massive column of smoke and police officers deployed in the streets of the Melones community.
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Trump considers declaring National Economic Emergency to justify universal tariffs
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may be considering declaring a national economic emergency in order to justify implementing a package of universal tariffs on both allied and adversary countries, according to CNN.
The proclamation of these measures would grant the incoming U.S. president the freedom to create a new tariff program using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
This move would give the president the authority to manage imports during a national emergency.
According to the report, Trump has a penchant for this law as it provides broad jurisdiction on how tariffs are implemented without strict requirements to prove they are necessary for national security reasons.
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Venezuelan opposition candidate Enrique Márquez detained ahead of Maduro’s inauguration
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Since Tuesday night, there has been a wave of reports of detentions, with at least a dozen arrests just over 48 hours before President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third six-year term, following a controversial reelection.
“We inform that yesterday, 07.01.25, Enrique Márquez was arbitrarily detained,” stated the Popular Democratic Front (FDP).
“He was kidnapped by paramilitary groups who, using force as their law, aim to silence and intimidate those of us who want a better country and have a different vision,” said his wife, Sonia Lugo de Márquez, on the leader’s X account.
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