Fredlyn Pierre Louis is a news associate for NBC News and MSNBC.
Jimmy Chérizier, the former Haitian police officer-turned-gangster leading the latest violent campaign to seize control of the country, is nicknamed “Barbeque.” Chérizier insists it’s because his mother operated a fried chicken stand in the slums of Port-au-Prince.
“It’s clear that he has a messianic vision of his role in Haiti,” Robert Fatton Jr., a professor of politics at the University of Virginia and an expert on Haiti, told NBC News recently. “He presents himself as such.” Chérizier is also closely allied with the Haitian Tèt Kale Party , one of the most powerful political parties in the country, according to InSight Crime, a nonprofit that covers organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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