c. jake johnston, senior research associate at the center for economic and policy research. a warm welcome to you while thanks for being with us today on inside story abbas regina, there's been this huge surge in the number of kidnappings in haiti from last year to this year. and just in the past few months, why have kidnappings become so frequent? there what are the factors that have led to this? well, 1st of all, mohammed thank you for inviting me to insight storage. and i'd like to start off for sy. expressing my heartfelt sensitive mental facility id to the families not are impacted by this horrible ash as this is, as it is for all the asian families. and this happens, it from a 1000 that, and it is not just a mom who door must be pamela g. make sure all people. oh wow man, this is really true from ish. one obviously is a security issue. and the other one is a social economic h. in terms of security, we have to bear in mind that shady for the better part of the last 20 years has had a international militarize force under the office of the united nations. now for the most