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Haiti.- On Sunday, Haitian National Police agents killed Kendy, known as ‘Jeff Mafia,’ in a gunfight. He was considered the second-in-command of the notorious criminal gang led by former police officer Jimmy Cherisier, alias ‘Barbacue.’ Police sources confirmed the operation, which also resulted in the deaths of other members of the ‘Vivre Ensemble’ gang, during a raid in the city center. ‘Jeff Mafia,’ who frequently accompanied Cherisier to public events, was reportedly shot while in the Fort National area with fellow gang members.
In retaliation for the police action, gangs spread terror across several neighborhoods in the capital, including Poupelard, Poste Marchand, and Lalue. Gunfire echoed throughout the day, and armed gangs set numerous homes on fire. Many residents fled these areas, seeking safety from the violence. Gangs control around 80% of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, which continues to suffer from widespread lawlessness and instability. Last week, two massacres claimed the lives of over 200 people, highlighting the ongoing crisis in the country, the poorest in the Americas.
Haiti: Bleeding from the culture of the “evil eye” The savage killing of 184 elderly people in Cité Soleil, beheading them and mutilating their bodies with knives, was a cruel and dehumanizing massacre, typical of the savagery of centuries past.
The gang member Wa Mikano ordered the killing of the elderly after attending voodoo rituals where a priest told him that his son had died from the “evil eye” that the elders had cast on him.
With these crimes, Haitian gangs have spread terror, fear, despair and chaos. In the name of a magical-religious culture, rituals, distorted beliefs and a learning passed down from generation to generation, from grandparents to children and from children to grandchildren, they have symbolically validated, seeking answers to their illnesses and ailments: “forces of the devil”, or the “evil eye” or the revenge of “demon-possessed” people, the product of envy, deceit or betrayal.
Witchcraft, sorcery, and healing are practices supported by many cultures, designating religious magical power or forces to people to communicate with the spirit, gods, or dead who entrusted them with supernatural tasks.
With the advancement of science, the education of people, information and economic and cultural development (transculturation), they were modified, dismantling and imposing new beliefs and new patterns of behavior.
But Haiti lives in the 19th century, its illiteracy and political, social and cultural backwardness legitimize gang members like Wa Mikano, who is a sociocultural expression of Haitian backwardness and underdevelopment, where force, weapons, crime and disconnection from Western development reproduce savagery and slums.
Neither the UN nor the European countries are able to understand the social behavior of the Haitian people. After a decade in Haiti as a military force, the Blue Helmets came to the conclusion: “the Haitian people are unviable” “they cannot be tamed” “they cannot coexist with democracy or order.”
Now the Kenyans and the other troops sent do not understand the crimes or setting fire to a person with a rubber band around their neck or burning them alive in the middle of the street and singing voodoo around them in a ritualistic way, they are simply afraid, scared and incomprehensible of the savagery in Haiti.
The Americans have decided to give money and logistical help, but their men are not going to Haiti; France, Spain and Canada are doing the same.
They have literally abandoned Haiti to the mercy of gangs, urban guerrillas, paying tolls to survive, arms and drug trafficking, and organized crime at any price.
In Haiti there is no State, no Government, no ruling class, no political or religious group that can stop the gangs, organize elections and make a national project viable.
Haiti is a mixture of many things: critical poverty, illiteracy, backwardness in all areas, disorganization, delinquency and crime, where there is a sustained cultural and spiritual poverty disconnected from civilization and development.
Emotionally they have responded with vengeance, violence, rage and anger, anger and hatred against everyone. It is a process of acculturation and syncretism of distorted and limiting beliefs.
Unfortunately, the crimes and savagery of the Haitian gangs will continue, while Haiti awaits the UN and the European Union.