Blackwater founder Erik Prince teams with Haitian government to fight gang violence

Private subject contractor Erik Prince, the erstwhile Navy SEAL and laminitis of Blackwater Worldwide, is moving with the Haitian authorities to combat the gangs terrorizing the Caribbean nation.

Prince's relation volition beryllium to counsel the Haitian authorities and its undermanned and underequipped constabulary unit connected however to instrumentality connected the thoroughfare gangs amid grounds levels of unit successful which thousands of radical person been killed, injured and abducted. 

"That goes beyond conscionable the information question and extends to restoring indispensable authorities services, but evidently everything is founded connected restoring security," the root said. 

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Blackwater laminitis Erik Prince walks with constabulary during the "Apolo 13" anti-crime cognition successful Guayaquil, Ecuador, connected April 5, 2025. (Agencia Press South/Getty Images)

Armed groups person taken implicit prisons, hospitals and swaths of territory, forcing radical to fly their homes. In April 2024, thousands fled the superior of Port-au-Prince for agrarian regions due to the fact that of escalating pack unit there. 

The Pentagon deferred questions by Fox News Digital to the Haitian government, which has besides been contacted by Fox News Digital. 

Fox News Digital besides reached retired to Prince. While Blackwater nary longer exists, Prince owns assorted backstage subject entities, the New York Times reported. 

A antheral holds a machete portion walking adjacent a heap of burning mattresses and the remains of the motorcycle of suspected pack person Makandal, who was killed and acceptable connected occurrence by section residents, adjacent Port-au-Prince, Haiti, connected March 20. (Reuters/Ralph Tedy Erol)

The State Department told Fox News Digital that the United States is not progressive successful immoderate backstage information declaration negotiations regarding Haiti and that Prince is not being paid by the U.S. government. 

Prince has been speaking with the Haitian authorities connected however to combat well-armed gangs similar Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, which person been designated by the State Department arsenic foreign violent organizations, and reconstruct information and stability, the root said. 

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A pistillate carrying a kid runs from the country aft gunshots were heard successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti, connected March 20, 2024. (CLARENS SIFFROY/AFP via Getty Images)

A peculiar task unit to instrumentality connected the gangs has been acceptable up. That radical volition pb the effort with enactment from planetary partners and experts. So far, the task unit has utilized drones. 

"While it whitethorn beryllium existent that nary leaders person been taken retired yet, a important fig of elder pack members person been killed oregon wounded," the root said. "For the archetypal time, the constabulary are starting to enactment existent unit connected them, and their capabilities are growing. So we anticipation to spot an betterment of the concern implicit the coming months."

A antheral carrying belongings flees the Poste Marchand suburb successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti, connected Dec. 9, 2024. (REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol)

The cardinal is to bash it successful a mode that is precise and mitigates risks to civilians, the root added. 

Security experts told the New York Times that Prince has besides been scouting to prosecute Haitian-American subject veterans to nonstop to Port-au-Prince. He is expected to nonstop up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti implicit the summertime and precocious shipped a ample cache of weapons to the country, 2 experts told the newspaper. 

Police officers face gangs adjacent the National Palace successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti, connected March 21, 2024. (Reuters/Ralph Tedy Erol/TPX Images of the Day)

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Military contractors successful Haiti person a checkered history. In 2021, Colombian mercenaries hired by an American information steadfast were accused of taking portion successful the assassination of erstwhile President Jovenel Moïse.

Rod Joseph, a Haitian-American Army seasoned who owns a Florida-based information serviceman grooming company, told the New York Times that helium had been successful talks with Prince to assistance proviso unit for his declaration since precocious past year.