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

By Deepa Shivaram,
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Published October 17, 2021 at 10:53 AM CDT
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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

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.

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Deepa Shivaram
Deepa Shivaram is a multi-platform political reporter on NPR's Washington Desk.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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.
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