© 2024 | WUWF Public Media
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514
850 474-2787
NPR for Florida's Great Northwest
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Haiti's kidnapping crisis is plunging the country even further into turmoil

A view down a busy street in Port au Prince, Haiti. Kidnappings in the country have already been worse in 2021 than years before.
Owen Franken
/
Getty Images
A view down a busy street in Port au Prince, Haiti. Kidnappings in the country have already been worse in 2021 than years before.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Widlore Mérancourt, editor in chief at AyiboPost about the kidnapping of 17 Christian American missionaries and their family members by an armed gang in Haiti.

Copyright 2021 NPR

Corrected: October 16, 2021 at 11:00 PM CDT
In an earlier version of this story, Widlore Mérancourt's first name was misspelled as Wid dore. Additionally, the original audio for this story stated that the 17 missionaries kidnapped are all American, but it is unclear that all 17 are from the United States.
Deepa Shivaram
Deepa Shivaram is a multi-platform political reporter on NPR's Washington Desk.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.