The kidnapping last week of 17 American and Canadian missionaries has put the spotlight on the country’s surging plague of kidnappings
By the time Jean Eduver, a private chauffeur, left for work at dawn Wednesday in La Plaine, a flat stretch of shantytowns north of the Haitian capital, kidnappers had already hit his neighborhood multiple times.
Overnight, armed bandits broke into a woman’s nearby house, ransacked it and grabbed her 3-year-old child, he said. Another neighbor’s daughter, having just returned from the U.S., was also abducted. And in a neighboring village, kidnappers that morning stopped a young woman taking her two sisters to school and kidnapped all three, Mr. Eduver said.
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