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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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1 posted on 03/11/2024 5:30:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The instability in Haiti is a problem for the entire Caribbean community, and for Washington too. The idea of a nation of some 11 million people being run by gangs is of huge concern, particularly the potential impact on outward migration during an election year in the US.
2 posted on 03/11/2024 5:31:12 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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Haiti sounds like it’s becoming a Democrat Party heaven.


3 posted on 03/11/2024 5:32:12 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: MtnClimber

Like the return of the Cicadas, this seems to happen on and off throughout my lifetime.


4 posted on 03/11/2024 5:33:42 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
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Gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, alias barbecue - youtube image

5 posted on 03/11/2024 5:34:36 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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The good news is that it is now harder for them to invade over here.


6 posted on 03/11/2024 5:34:55 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: MtnClimber

Send the Clintons.


7 posted on 03/11/2024 5:36:49 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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I wonder how many Haitian gang members are here now. Waiting for the BLM/ANTIFA election violence to start.


8 posted on 03/11/2024 5:37:55 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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Haiti spirals?

You mean they can go lower?


9 posted on 03/11/2024 5:38:21 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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We don’t want 11 million Haitian immigrants to come to USA. So it’s important to have some sort of plan.


10 posted on 03/11/2024 5:38:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RoosterRedux

Chicago on steroids.


11 posted on 03/11/2024 5:39:13 AM PDT by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: MtnClimber

Take a wild guess where these cannibals are coming.

I want reparations for the whites their ancestors slaughtered.


12 posted on 03/11/2024 5:39:54 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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Those who promote various forms of "anarchy" never look at what actually happens when there is no government.

You do not get a paradise. The power vacuum is immediately filled by "tribes", "gangs", "militia" essentially, whatever group of armed men are cohesive enough to seize territory and hold it against rivals.

Eventually those may be conquered or coalesce around a strong leader to hold bigger territories, and from that, you can get nation-states.

13 posted on 03/11/2024 5:41:14 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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Im sure they could use medical volunteer missionaries to staff that hospital but I also fear it is way too dangerous to go there. They would be attractive kidnap and ransom targets. Sad.


14 posted on 03/11/2024 5:41:14 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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Sounds like the Caribbeaners are trying to speed up their communist “mass migration” as America gets closer to its most important election ever. The RATS are wanting to guarantee themselves another four years of DemonRAT insanity.


15 posted on 03/11/2024 5:41:28 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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There are very few white people in Haiti, so it must be Wakanda like in its utopia.

You could ask the French descendants to help out, but someone did something…


16 posted on 03/11/2024 5:44:33 AM PDT by EEGator
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“You do not get a paradise. The power vacuum is immediately filled by “tribes”, “gangs”, “militia” essentially, whatever group of armed men are cohesive enough to seize territory and hold it against rivals.”


Correctomundo! It is not the “good” people who take control.


17 posted on 03/11/2024 5:44:57 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: desertsolitaire

It isn’t sad, it’s what they deserve. They murdered all the whites, now they can live in their filth and misery.
(Insert Animal Mother pic)


18 posted on 03/11/2024 5:46:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Miami has “Little Haiti”.
A good place to visit if you want jerk chicken or AIDS…


19 posted on 03/11/2024 5:47:43 AM PDT by EEGator
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Haiti sounds like it’s becoming a Democrat Party heaven.

Its actually the training ground for the Civilian Police Force Biden/0bama will use after they steal the 2024 election.


20 posted on 03/11/2024 5:49:25 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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