Posted on 05/28/2025 12:01:52 PM PDT by ransomnote
Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital.
Mr. Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, signed a contract to take on the criminal groups that have been killing civilians and seizing control of vast areas of territory, according to senior Haitian and American government officials and several other security experts familiar with Mr. Prince’s work in Haiti.
Haiti’s government has hired American contractors, including Mr. Prince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones meant to kill gang members, security experts said. Mr. Prince’s team has been operating the drones since March, but the authorities have yet to announce the death or capture of a single high-value target.
Security experts said Mr. Prince has also been scouting Haitian American military veterans to hire to send to Port-au-Prince and is expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer. He recently shipped a large cache of weapons to the country, two experts said.
The Haitian government is awaiting the arrival of arms shipments and more personnel to step up its fight against the gangs.
American officials said they were aware of Mr. Prince’s work with Haiti’s government. But the full terms of the Haitian government’s arrangement with Mr. Prince, including how much it is paying him, are unknown.
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No federal judges in Haiti to issue restraining orders.
Fools errand. That place cannot be fixed and it’s pointless to try. The place has an average IQ of 67. You light a Bic lighter and they think you are magic.
Just a waste of time and money. I am certain Uncle Sugar is paying the freight somehow.
Send birth control. Lots of it.
“No federal judges in Haiti to issue restraining orders”
Tell that to the Blackwater men sent to prison for the shootings at Nisour Square. There was no Status of Forces agreement. The US government sent the FBI into Iraq with zero legal jurisdiction, and prosecuted those men in the DC District despite them violating zero US laws.
But DOJ decided it had jurisdiction.
That was another prime example of serious overreach waaaay outside their lane by the demo-commies that still infest the federal bureaucracy.
At this point I wish Trump had taken Prince up on his offer to legally vacuum the illegals out of the country for us.
The "government" is probably just a official gang, another laundry for our tax dollars.
It is impossible to "nation build" there.
At best isolate it or nuke it and start over.
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