Kidnappings in Haiti are on the rise amid rampant gang violence in the poorest state in the Americas, whose political, economic and public health systems are in tatters. Last year, the UN estimated that gangs controlled around 80 percent of Port-au-Prince. The UN Security Council agreed in October to send a multinational mission to Haiti, led by Kenya, to assist the Haitian police, though it could take months yet to arrive. As the UN Security council is set to meet again on Haiti, FRANCE 24's Monte Francis is joined by Dr. Jean Eddy Saint-Paul, Haitian American sociologist, professor, scholar, and public intellectual who currently serves as a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) where he's the founding director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute.
