FBI tells Americans to consider 'costs of being kidnapped' before traveling to Haiti

Haiti is under a "Level 4 – Do Not Travel" warning from the U.S. State Department.

The FBI issued a dire warning telling U.S. citizens and permanent residents to avoid travel to Haiti as gang violence plagues the Caribbean nation.

"While we understand that there are strong ties between Haiti and South Florida, before traveling there one should consider the trauma and financial costs of being kidnapped not only to themselves but to their family and friends as well," FBI Supervisory Special Agent Liz Santamaria said, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday.

The FBI's Miami branch says it has seen 300% more kidnappings during the first three months of 2023 than it did in the same period of time last year. The agency would not release exact figures, but some South Florida residents have fallen victim in recent weeks and have been ransomed for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Haiti is under a "Level 4 – Do Not Travel" warning from the U.S. State Department.

Gangs have taken over 60% of the capital of Port-au-Prince since President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in July 2021, according to The Associated Press.

Earlier this week, a vigilante mob in Port-au-Prince pulled 13 suspected gang members from police custody and beat and burned them to death.

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President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol are expected to sign an agreement Wednesday that would have U.S. nuclear-armed submarines dock in the Asian country for the first time in more than four decades – as concerns about threats from North Korea are on the rise, U.S. officials said.

The planned deployment, which is called the "Washington Declaration," is aimed at discouraging North Korea from attacking its southern neighbor, three senior Biden administration officials told reporters, according to media reports. It is being unveiled while Yoon is in the United States, but the plan has been in the works for months.

The agreement also calls for stronger joint military training between the U.S. and South Korea. Part of the declaration also reaffirms South Korea's commitment to nuclear non-proliferation, which is an agreement to stop the spread of nuclear technology.

U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines frequently visited South Korea in the 1970s during the Cold War, but the U.S. withdrew all of its nuclear weapons from the peninsula in 1991.

North Korea has ballistic missiles over the past year and has threatened to use military force against its southern neighbor.

The missiles are missiles are moreover intended to carry a nuclear warhead, which North Korea says it has already developed.

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her

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