UN Office on Drugs and Crime

… Republic as central to this pipeline. This assessment is corroborated by the UNODC Executive Director's January 21, 2026 briefing to the UN Security Council, which named arms trafficking as a structural …

… as preliminary, is consistent with the broader pattern documented by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in its January 2024 reporting: US-origin weapons are the dominant supply source for Haitian gang arsenals, moving throu …

… rainy season when ground operations are most constrained. The July 17, 2026 UNODC has flagged the degree to which gang control has embedded itself into economic, social, and governance networks across …

… American consumer markets via maritime and aerial routes across the Caribbean. UNODC's tenth quarterly UNSC report, issued January 2026, provides corroborating detail on illegal arms flows, clandestine ai …

… Haiti as the new Caribbean epicenter for drug trafficking, combined with the UNODC January 2026 UNSC briefing identifying the DR-Haiti border corridor as a primary transit route, reframes the security a …

… recorded in the Americas, controls an estimated 90 percent of Port-au-Prince. UNODC estimates 16,000 conflict-related deaths since January 2022, a figure that receives insufficient weight in diplomatic f …

… February 2026 guidance on US-Caribbean illicit firearms cooperation and UNODC's January 2026 briefing to the UN Security Council on weapons networks supplying Haitian gangs. The Watch Journal asses …

… transformation into a drug transit hub amplifies DR's security exposure. UNODC's tenth quarterly report to the UN Security Council, published January 2026, and The Watch's April 7 analysis both docu …