Asia

China Cyprus Hong Kong Indonesia Japan Philippines Saudi Arabia Singapore Thailand

Oceania

Australia New Zealand

Americas

Canada United States

Africa

South Africa

Inside haiti: a nation ruled by brutal gangs

8 min read

The last word

Inside Haiti: a nation ruled by brutal gangs

In the impoverished island

This article is from...

The Week UK Magazine

12 September, 2025

Related Articles

BBC History Magazine

From sexual orgies to satan incarnated as a snake, lurid depictions of ‘voodoo’ in north america long titillated and shocked readers. as david g cox explains, they were also wielded as justifications for racist oppression during the social and political upheavals of the 19th-century us

On 2 January 1893, the black American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass delivered a lecture on Haiti to an audience in Chicago. It was widely alleged, he reflected, that the Caribbean repub

Pick Me Up! Specials

Blood on the beach

Our dream holiday became a li ving nightmare Alison ...

The world at a glance

State College, Pennsylvania FBI director’s fury: Kash Patel, ...

BBC History Magazine

Royals, radicals and rebels

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

No justice no answers

I’ve lived in fear of Dad’s mystery killer for decades. Now it’s their turn to be scared

Best articles: international

Massacre in Darfur: the world looked the other ...

Related Articles

BBC History Magazine

From sexual orgies to satan incarnated as a snake, lurid depictions of ‘voodoo’ in north america long titillated and shocked readers. as david g cox explains, they were also wielded as justifications for racist oppression during the social and political upheavals of the 19th-century us

On 2 January 1893, the black American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass delivered a lecture on Haiti to an audience in Chicago. It was widely alleged, he reflected, that the Caribbean repub

Pick Me Up! Specials

Blood on the beach

Our dream holiday became a li ving nightmare Alison ...

The world at a glance

State College, Pennsylvania FBI director’s fury: Kash Patel, ...

BBC History Magazine

Royals, radicals and rebels

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

No justice no answers

I’ve lived in fear of Dad’s mystery killer for decades. Now it’s their turn to be scared

Best articles: international

Massacre in Darfur: the world looked the other ...