Human organ trafficking, another scourge for Haiti

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The president of Haiti's Presidential Transitional Council, Leslie Voltaire, confirmed that human organ trafficking is now another scourge burdening the lives of the inhabitants of the Caribbean nation. teleSUR

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00:00The president of Haiti's transition council, Leslie Voltaire, has linked the increase in

00:04disappearances in the country to organ trafficking of the many eels plaguing the nation.

00:09Recently, the security forces confirmed that several kidnapped farmers were still unaccounted

00:14for.

00:15The Haitian media emphasized that there are no ransom demands or anything similar.

00:19The acting head of government claims, in the context of these disappearances, that there

00:23is an organ trafficking network known as Pearl of the Antilles, which is an organization

00:28with international connections that takes advantage of the vulnerability of Haitian

00:33citizens in the midst of a tremendous political, social, and criminal crisis.

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