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.
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Yep
This is going to do wonders for the tourist trade.
I’m not much in favor of US power projection
However we may have to here just to stop this spiral
It is in our back yard
Incorporate with neighboring militaries like Jamaica and Dom Rep
Only stability they’ve ever known is our encampments
They should have left Cedras in power
Nothing much will happen before 1/25
No, but toss him in the smoker and make sure to add extra seasonings to get rid of the gangy taste.
I agree
Besides sometimes humanitarian efforts are humanitarians
The FFL and western forces could have slowed one million Tutsis from dying from. Bludgeoning and chopping over two months
But we the west did nothing even with assets on hand
Yet we die defending goat herders over Byzantine Middle East complexities
I spent months in Haiti from 87-91
I had to leave with a price on my head smuggled out paperless by mennonites to the Dom Rep on one of their planes
It’s way worse now than then
And Obeyme, Brandon and Gyorgy Schwartz.
It would’ve been better if slaves had never been imported to the new world.
Absolutely. Biggest error ever.
Apparently the Clinton Foundation took all that donated money after Haiti’s terrible earthquake and did a bang up job rebuilding the infrastructure and educating the people there in best practices going forward. It shows today.
Kenyan peacekeepers were supposed to arrive last fall. Not sure what happened. Did they just take the money from the UN and failed to follow through their part?
Take a look at Haiti & then look at the direction the U.S. is heading & see if you notice any similarities. Haiti could elect Biden as their president & not change a lot.
There is no similarity between Haiti now and the US now, because all the whites in Haiti were killed in
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