16 missionaries from the U.S. and 1 from Canada have been abducted from an area near the capitol of Haiti.  

Authorities there believe the 400 Mawozo gang snatched the group at gunpoint just after they visited an orphanage in a suburb just northeast of Port au Prince.

For more, KCBS News Anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell spoke with Mark Jones, Chair of Latin American Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas.