Club International was once a popular music venue in Port-au-Prince. Now it’s a makeshift shelter for hundreds of Haitian families fleeing gang violence, and the club’s owner wants them out.

The Salvadoran government dispatched more than 2,000 troops to Haiti this week in an extraordinary deployment on foreign soil.

© Michael Anthony Adams/The New York Times

Haiti is in the throes of debilitating gang violence, which has kept officials from organizing an election to pick a new president.

© Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times