U.S. Rep. Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar has called on the U.S. State Department to take action against Haitian gang leader Jimmy Ch\u00e9rizier, widely known as \u201cBarbecue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a post on X, Salazar described \u201cBarbecue\u201d as the face of Haiti\u2019s ongoing crisis, accusing him of leading gangs that have taken control of large parts of Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA man who calls himself \u2018Barbecue\u2019 has become the face of Haiti\u2019s collapse,\u201d Salazar wrote. \u201cHe leads the gangs that have taken over Port-au-Prince, forced people from their homes, shut down schools, and made the capital unlivable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her comments come as Haiti continues to grapple with escalating gang violence, widespread displacement, and a worsening humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U.S. Rep. Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar has called on the U.S. State Department to take action against Haitian gang leader Jimmy Ch\u00e9rizier, widely known as \u201cBarbecue.\u201d In a post on X, Salazar described \u201cBarbecue\u201d as the face of Haiti\u2019s ongoing crisis, accusing him of leading gangs that have taken control of large parts of Port-au-Prince. \u201cA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":516911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-516910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-haiti"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2atg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/photo-output.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/photo-output.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}