“In no instances will gangs ever help resolve the security crisis,” said Pierre Esperance, a human-rights advocate. Involving gang leaders in a political accord “is reinforcing impunity and ...

We cannot breathe. PERALTA: Pierre Esperance is one of the most prominent human rights advocates in Haiti. He says for years now, the government of Haiti has used the gangs to squash dissent.

‘The capital can collapse’ Pierre Esperance, a human rights activist in the capital, said the deportations are just complicating the problem.

“It’s grave, it’s dangerous,” Pierre Esperance of the National Human Rights Defense Network said. The brigade, he added, “is not a structured corps and the environmental ministry has ...

Haiti Haiti On the Brink hearing U.S. Congress House Foreign Affairs Committee House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Jovenel Moise Pierre Esperance National Human Rights Defense Network ...

“The judge was supposed to wait for the appeal,” Esperance said. Reached by telephone, Belizaire hung up and did not respond to other calls. Haiti Justice Minister Pierre-Richard Casimir told ...

KAHN: Pierre Esperance, a longtime human rights advocate, says despite the initial arrests, including 18 former Colombian soldiers and several Haitian Americans, no charges have been brought.

More than 1,800 candidates are running for some 130 seats. Pierre Esperance, a leading civil rights advocate in Haiti, says that's way too many. PIERRE ESPERANCE: On Sunday, we will have some problem.

Pierre Esperance, executive director of the National Human Rights Defense Network in Haiti, said in a phone interview that ransoms vary wildly, with some gangs seeking up to $1 million and others ...