{"id":255230,"date":"2022-07-28T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/anger-grows-in-haiti-over-weapons-trafficking-from-u-s-after-guns-shipped-as-church-donations"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T11:07:42","slug":"anger-grows-in-haiti-over-weapons-trafficking-from-u-s-after-guns-shipped-as-church-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/anger-grows-in-haiti-over-weapons-trafficking-from-u-s-after-guns-shipped-as-church-donations","title":{"rendered":"Anger grows in Haiti over weapons trafficking from U.S. after guns shipped as church donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 28 (Reuters) &#8211; A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has ignited anger over a steady flow of U.S. guns that are fueling rampant gang violence. Haiti&#8217;s customs agency on July 14 seized shipping containers holding 18 &#8220;weapons of war,&#8221; four handguns and nearly 15,000 rounds of ammunition that were shipped from the United States to the Episcopal Church of Haiti, which said the documents had been falsified and that it had nothing to do with the containers. Separately, police investigating gun smuggling this month arrested a state prosecutor and a prominent lawyer who according to media reports served as an advisor to the justice minister. Guns brought illegally to Haiti are often used in gang wars such as a recent turf battle in the town of Cite Soleil, which between July 8 and July 17 left more than 471 people killed, injured or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 28 (Reuters) &#8211; A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has ignited anger over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}