Haiti’s acting prime minster has resigned, bending to pressure from the US. The move leaves a power vacuum into which has apparently stepped Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier. So, with much of the country's capital now a no-go zone, how did Haiti get here? And how did gang leader ‘Barbecue’ get his nickname?

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• Stephen Gibbs, Latin America correspondent for The Times.
• Mario Delatour, Haitian-American documentary filmmaker.

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