c. jake johnston, senior research associate at the center for economic and policy research. a warm welcome to you all, and thanks for being with us today on inside story ambassador again, 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 sentimental saluki to the family news not are impacted by this horrible ash, as this is, as it is for all the asian families. and this happens a traumatizing that and it is not best among who door hospitality. make sure all people oh man, this is really to prom ish. one obviously is a security issue. and the other one is a social on the 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 part, they are