Street Gangs Still a Major Problem in Port-Au-Prince

Even though the link is just to a picture, it is still a fairly powerful one to me. It shows a typically poorer neighbrhood in Port-Au-Prince that is usually dominated by gangs that the UN is trying to clear out. In my mind it parallels the US offensive to clear out Fallujah in Iraq, both in the type of operation and how pictures of that area strongly remind me of this picture: Click here.