Haiti’s government is growing desperate, now resorting to using handheld drones to drop bombs on local gangs as the situation on the western half of Hispaniola becomes more dire, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

“It’s showing how weak the government forces are,” Vanda Felbab-Brown from the Brookings Institution said of the tactic. “They are desperate.”

According to sources close to Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who took over as acting leader in November, a drone task force was created in response to the gangs the government considers terrorist entities.

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