Haiti and drugs

Because of their special links with Haiti, some Montreal street gang businessmen frequent the island's traffickers and organize the import of narcotics from Haiti to Canada. This has increased since the deportation, because of their criminal activities, of some of the gang members from northern Montreal to Port-au-Prince. "They reorganize in Port-au-Prince and maintain contacts with their gang in Canada," confirms Mario Andrésol.

They recruit more young people from the Haitian community in Montreal to transport drugs, such as Barbara Exhumé. Because she wanted to bring back a kilo of cocaine to Canada, the young Montrealer languishes in an overcrowded prison in Port-au-Prince. She was supposed to receive $3,000, but she was instead sentenced to 12 years in prison and a fine of $30,000. She prefers to silence the names of those for whom she worked, because of the danger she would incur.

Even if drug trafficking by mules is important, it is nothing compared to what passes by container, boat or plane. Three-quarters of the cocaine seized at Montreal airport came from Haiti, it was learned in an RCMP document made public last month.

More and more businessmen linked to street gangs are having properties built on the beautiful side of the Port-au-Prince hill, in the Vivi Michel district, which is expanding.

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