Latin America’s Deadliest Threat Is Made in the U.S.
By
Robert Muggah, Katherine Aguirre
The region's organized crime groups source much of their arsenal from the U.S., an expert writes.
RIO DE JANEIRO — 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. Haiti now registers the highest homicide rate on Earth. But the island...
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