Latin America’s Deadliest Threat Is Made in the U.S.

Earlier this month, Juliette Dorson, a 50-year-old Haitian caterer, was shot while working an event in Port-au-Prince. Her business partner, Luc, died in the attack. She survived, but barely. For residents of Haiti’s capital, such horrors are tragically routine. Gangs now control four-fifths of the city, wielding not just pistols and assault rifles but sniper rifles and belt-fed machine guns. Few of these weapons are made locally. Most are smuggled from the United States.

 

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