(Français) On the afternoon of Jan. 1, Haiti’s Independence Day, a large crowd of musicians, their fans, and excited young people from the neighborhood gathered in an intersection along Rue Saint Martin, a dusty, Godforsaken street running east off of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines in downtown Port-au-Prince. They were there for the launching of Party Cool

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Asked if the mercenaries who killed the Milord family or Papouche were perhaps Salvadoran or Guatemalan soldiers from the U.S.-assembled Gang Suppression Force (GSF), Cherizier said no. “The guys who came are Erik Prince’s mercenaries. Even if they speak Spanish, his mercenaries don’t have to be American… It’s Erik Prince’s mercenaries going out… It’s Blackwater.”