Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti?
by Tom Phillips and Luke Taylor from World news | The Guardian on (#6K7SD)
Jimmy Cherizier says he's leading Haiti's poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent past
Murals in the pauperized Haitian slums he rules liken him to the Argentinian guerrilla Ernesto Che" Guevara.
In interviews, he poses as a God-fearing Caribbean Robin Hood and celebrates freedom fighters and agitators including Fidel Castro, Thomas Sankara and Malcolm X.
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