[series_posts_list][/series_posts_list]Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday designated two Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, as they move to control the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince, he said. The action comes just months after the designation was applied to several other groups based in Mexico, Venezuela, and El Salvador.
The two gangs, Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, are a “primary source of instability and violence in Haiti” and are a “direct threat to U.S. national security interests in our region,” Rubio said in a statement, adding that they are “committed to overthrowing the government of Haiti.”…