Jimmy Chérizier, best known as "Barbecue," is a leader of a gang federation called Viv Ansanm that the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

A federal grand jury has indicted Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, the leader of a powerful coalition of gangs that has paralyzed and terrorized Haiti, on charges of conspiring with Haitians and members of the Haitian diaspora in the United States to evade U.

A wealthy businessman on Thursday became the head of Haiti’s transitional presidential council tasked with restoring order in the troubled country as a top gang leader underscored the challenges facing the nation by vowing to overthrow the government.