FBI issues dire warning to Americans thinking of traveling to Caribbean nation as crime skyrockets in 2023
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The FBI, State Department, and United Nations are warning Americans not to travel to Haiti amid a spike in gang violence and kidnappings in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
According to the FBI’s Miami field office, kidnappings are surging in Haiti to the tune of a 300% increase for the first three months of 2023 when compared to 2022. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
Haitian gangs have turned to extreme measures with atrocities akin to those reported during the genocide in Rwanda, according to a Haitian doctor in an interview from his home in Port-au-Prince late last month.
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