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Haiti spirals to collapse as gangs tighten grip
BBC ^ | 11 Mar, 2024 | Will Grant

Posted on 03/11/2024 5:30:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Haiti is fast descending into anarchy.

Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs.

It comes after a sustained attack on the international airport, which remains closed to all flights - including one carrying Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

He tried to fly back to Haiti from the United States last week, but his plane was refused permission to land. He was then turned away from the neighbouring Dominican Republic too.

Mr Henry is now stuck in Puerto Rico, unable to set foot in the nation he ostensibly leads.

Among those who did manage to get into the stricken Caribbean nation, though, was a group of US military personnel.

Following a request from the US State Department, the Pentagon confirmed it had carried out an operation to, as it put it, "augment the security" of the US embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlift all non-essential staff to safety.

Soon after, the German ambassador and some EU diplomats followed suit, fleeing a nation mired in violence and facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake.

Millions of Haitians, however, simply don't have that luxury. They're trapped, no matter how bad things get.

The situation is dire at the State University of Haiti Hospital, known as the general hospital, in downtown Port-au-Prince. There is no sign of any medical staff at all.

A dead body, covered by a sheet and swarming with flies, lies in a bed next to patients waiting in vain for treatment.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: haiti; revolution
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To: marktwain

I think that most of the people who advocate for anarchy really just want to watch everything burn.


21 posted on 03/11/2024 5:49:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Let Hillary fix it with her red button and her foundation...................


22 posted on 03/11/2024 5:50:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: EEGator

If you jerk your own chicken you won’t get AIDS...................


23 posted on 03/11/2024 5:52:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Lol.


24 posted on 03/11/2024 5:54:25 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Time to make a KFC sacrifice to Jobu.


25 posted on 03/11/2024 5:54:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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To: EEGator

I’m sure it is paradise since no white people = no racism or “hate”.


26 posted on 03/11/2024 5:55:13 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Phoenix8

Saw a video of some gang leader down there eating meat off the leg of a human body that had been thrown in a fire...

https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1766961877978898892?s=46

Video as since been removed... but that is yet another image I’d rather not have in my head.


27 posted on 03/11/2024 5:57:31 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yeah, and it’s coming here. You’d be amazed at how many can fit in a C-17.


28 posted on 03/11/2024 5:58:09 AM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Long time version of it.


29 posted on 03/11/2024 5:58:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: MtnClimber

Prime Minister Ariel Henry may find out that there is no high on this earth like going into a hot LZ.


30 posted on 03/11/2024 5:58:37 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: imabadboy99

“We” should never have allowed Africans to stay in the Caribbean.
Imagine how wonderful those islands would be if filled with whites instead.


31 posted on 03/11/2024 5:58:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Paging Nayib Bukele...


32 posted on 03/11/2024 5:58:49 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: RoosterRedux

Good morning Rooster!

“Haiti sounds like it’s becoming a Democrat Party heaven”

I am not surprised. I recall the demonkkkrap front group the Clinton foundation grifted over a billion dollars not too long ago to help the Haitians in Haiti. Looks like they really made an investment to what is being reaped today. One and done scam.


33 posted on 03/11/2024 5:59:27 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: EnderWiggin1970
Oh wow, I was kidding... but: Bukele offers to fix chaos torn Haiti
34 posted on 03/11/2024 5:59:53 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: RoosterRedux

Note to democrats:
THIS is what an insurrection
Looks like!


35 posted on 03/11/2024 6:01:45 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Yep. The Foundation poured the money into Haiti and Bill and Hillary were there to scoop it up.


36 posted on 03/11/2024 6:02:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Phoenix8
Haiti spirals?

You mean they can go lower?

Just when you think Haiti couldn't sink any lower, they manage to find a trap door.

37 posted on 03/11/2024 6:06:39 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: MtnClimber

It sounds like a Clint00n setup to take over their little playground for keeps.


38 posted on 03/11/2024 6:13:39 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: sauropod

Yep...long pork.


39 posted on 03/11/2024 6:14:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump proven right AGAIN.

He called Haiti a SHITHOLE and the left went nuts. Celebrities wore shirts that said “Haiti is already Great”.

Newest video has CANNIBAL gangs killing, roasting, and eating people in Haiti.

COMING to out border 3, 2, 1......


40 posted on 03/11/2024 6:23:21 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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