OAS urged to do more to help Haiti fight gang violence

The Organization of American States came under pressure Thursday to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a UN-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and personnel.

The OAS meeting was held a day after Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer who became one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders, pleaded with people from the Delmas 30 neighborhood in the capital,…