Ayiti4XL - 06 August 2008 05:33 PM
Because it's much easier to associate Haiti (which already has a sour image and bad rep) with high crime rates. Its called yellow journalism: exaggerated reporting for the sake of better ratings. Out of all those top ten dangerous countries...Haiti is probably the only one that isn't wartorn. Jamaica is far more dangerous than Haiti and cities such as Recife in Brazil and some areas of Rio have the highest murder per capita rate of any city in the world. You think Haiti has a "gang problem"? Most gangs in Haiti are nothing more than street hoodlums looking for some easy cash. Some are politically oriented and others aren't. Whatever the case...it doesn't compare whatsoever to the gang crisis in Central America. I was recently watching a documentary on the Mara 18 and MS-13 gangs in El Salvador and I was appalled at the degree to which the gang crisis has plagued that tiny country. Deportees (90% of them gang members) flood the country like nobody's business fueling the raging fire of gang warfare that already has devastated the society. Murders are virtually a daily occurrence with most of them due to gang involvement. They have whole prisons in El Salvador and Honduras whose entire (I actually mean entire) inmate population consists of Mara 18 or MS-13 gang members...it's quite shocking. Besides they look much more intimidating than Caribbean gangsters. These Central American gangsters are often teenagers and young adults...clean-shaven and shirtless tattoo-covered criminals flashing gang signs and toting semi-automatic weapons.
El Savador's murder rate is said to average 11 murders a day...can you imagine if there were 11 murders in Haiti a day? We would be labeled the official hell of the planet earth...
Jamaica's police kill more criminals a year then Haiti's criminals kill people so you can just imagine how many people in total die by the gun in Jamaica...
In the chanty towns in Brazil it is very normal to see 8 year old children proudly, openly brandishing machine guns...I know this because me and some friends saw it first hand and could not believe it was true...
There is a very serious gang in Haiti and it is by far the most gripping in the world...it is called hunger and neglect and no one wants to do anything about it, no one wants to see anything done about it because Haiti has to continue being the world's example...the Western world is truly fascinated with poverty to gross extents and without Haiti who would they have to talk about? Sub Saharan Africa serves the east's hunger for extreme poverty, we serve the west plain and simple
