Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that ...

An interactive timeline tracing Hotel Oloffson’s journey from mansion to cultural hub to its tragic end amid gang violence.

In the late 1980s, Richard Morse became the hotel’s manager. His band, RAM, played Haitian roots music on Thursday nights ...

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation ...

Nadine Mallebranche was only five years old when her family fled the political upheaval of Francois “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s Haiti in the late 1980s.

But Haiti — and the world — still lacks a complete picture of destruction, and desperation was setting in among people who have spent days in the floodwaters and mud.

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation.