U.S. Exempts Aid Workers from Sanctions over Gang Toll Payments

The Trump administration will not sanction humanitarian organizations that are forced to pay tolls imposed by gangs in order to deliver aid to Haitians affected by violence, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

Le Nouvelliste
Par Le Nouvelliste
21 May 2025 | Lecture : 2 min.

The Trump administration will not sanction humanitarian organizations that are forced to pay tolls imposed by gangs in order to deliver aid to Haitians affected by violence, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

“We are concerned that, in order to distribute humanitarian aid, NGOs often have to pay, for lack of a better word, ‘tolls’—they have to pay to pass,” Rubio stated before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“Would th

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