If these guys weren't trained by Americans, I'll eat my hat.
Posted on 01/05/2025 8:10:12 AM PST by BenLurkin
A contingent of 150 Guatemalan soldiers has arrived in Haiti, tasked with helping to restore order amid the chaos wrought by armed gangs.
A first group of 75 soldiers arrived on Friday and another 75 on Saturday, all drafted from the military police, according to Guatemala's government.
A state of emergency has been in place across the Caribbean nation for months as the government battles violent gangs that have taken control of much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
The forces are in Haiti to boost a United Nations-backed security mission led by Kenya that has so far failed to prevent violence from escalating.
Kenya sent nearly 400 police officers in June and July last year to help combat the gangs.
This was the first tranche of a UN-approved international force that will be made up of 2,500 officers from various countries.
A small number of forces from Jamaica, Belize and El Salvador are also in Haiti as part of the mission and the US is the operation's largest funder.[Uncle Sucker stuck with thre check again.]
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If these guys weren't trained by Americans, I'll eat my hat.
Wish them luck.
Haiti needs to have the scab ripped off. It would hurt but I think that’s the only way to make it better.
Go in and be kind of be Genghis Khan like ….slaughter several hundred thousand gang members, warlords, criminals and henchmen. stack the bodies.
Of course every liberal in the world would cry racism and it will never happen so they will continue on in misery.
Or alternately we could try Biden’s idea and let most migrate here. (sarc)
This is just stupid. Haiti could end all the gun violence in one very effective move. Just ban all guns. Criminals would be turning them in left and right. Others would just flee the country. /s/
Seriously, they do have gun laws but they simply do not work, according to a Google search. Which is obvious. If criminals want guns, they will get guns.
It’s better than Africa. Stay behind and they get eaten.
Birth control. And lots of it.
Did they train by fighting Guatemalan gangs?
We don’t have enough pets for option 2.
What happens when the Guatemalans start taking casualties? Do they go all medieval on the gangs, or do they pick up and leave?
What a worthless way to die
This should be fun to watch
Better them than us.
“Go in and be kind of be Genghis Khan like”
ROE? We don’t need no stink’n ROE!
Another Clinton Foundation epic failure of greed and evil.
> What a worthless way to die <
Same as it ever was. The average soldier is put in harm’s way because some big shot somewhere wants to score a few political points.
Why the hell didn’t they do this before all the Haitians moved to Springfield, Ohio?
Beyond securing a “green zone” for foreign diplomats, NGO personnel, and some elites, these Kenyan and Guatemala soldiers will not secure a place like Haiti. To do so would create bloodshed and a spectacle not seen since the times of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
The UN is trying to stop the killing of Haitian communists by Barbecue’s right-wing death squads. I say, let him finish.
Now that Guatemala emptied out their prisons and sent their gangsters to thenUSA they have time to deal with Haitian gangs. Well done...
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