US designates two powerful Haitian gangs as terrorist groups

Rubio calls Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif threat to US national security' and says support for groups could lead to charges

The United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a transnational terrorist group".

The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115 people in the agricultural town of Pont-Sonde, were both covered by the move on Friday.