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The government of Haiti says police have launched a large-scale operation in a shantytown controlled by powerful gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, who is widely known as Barbecue.

A sense of despair has engulfed the migrant camp of La Soledad, named after the colonial-era church that towers over the shantytown in downtown Mexico City.

Their shantytown, nestled in the middle-class neighbourhood of Jodhpur Park, thrummed with life.

Full of snappy and snappish dialogue, the book imagines a carnival-esque week’s idyll in the “shantytown of millionaires” that was 1950s Malibu.

One obvious model was the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s, which saw students erect “shantytowns” on many campuses.