Haiti Between Concern and Reasons for Optimism

Kidnapping cases are multiplying across the metropolitan area. Some victims remain anonymous. Others are well known.

Each time, the criminals’ methods appear well-rehearsed. They seize their target in broad daylight, in full view of everyone, and then disappear with them into neighborhoods that serve as hideouts.

The justice system and the police leave families to handle the situation themselves. It has been this way for years, with only rare exceptions.

Concern is growing across all sectors of society ove