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The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion in the Unit­ed States on Fri­day des­ig­nat­ed two Hait­ian gangs as ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions.

“To­day, I am an­nounc­ing the State De­part­ment’s des­ig­na­tion of Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as For­eign Ter­ror­ist Or­gan­i­sa­tions (FTOs) and Spe­cial­ly Des­ig­nat­ed Glob­al Ter­ror­ists (SDGTs),” said US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio. “The age of im­puni­ty for those sup­port­ing vi­o­lence in Haiti is over.”

Ru­bio, a for­mer US Sen­a­tor, who was born in Mi­a­mi, Flori­da to Cuban im­mi­grants, said Hait­ian gangs, in­clud­ing the Viv Ansanm coali­tion and Gran Grif, are “the pri­ma­ry source of in­sta­bil­i­ty and vi­o­lence in Haiti.