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Tom Phillips and Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince

Haiti’s most powerful gang boss calls for uprising to overthrow prime minister

A middle-aged man surrounded by masked gunmen stares into the camera.
Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier leads a march against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, in Port-au-Prince on 19 September 2023. Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters

The most severe humanitarian crisis in the Americas has taken yet another dramatic turn after Haiti’s most powerful gang boss took to the streets to call for an armed uprising to overthrow the country’s unpopular prime minister.

Jimmy Chérizier, a police officer turned gang lord nicknamed “Barbecue”, issued his call to arms on Tuesday, as reports suggested the US was preparing to ask the UN security council to approve a Kenya-led intervention designed to address the Caribbean country’s escalating security crisis.

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