Posted on 07/10/2018 1:33:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti has requested additional security personnel including Marines as the Haitian capital has been gripped by days of protests over a government plan to raise fuel prices and cut food subsidies, according to multiple reports.
A request made by the embassy includes a Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit consisting of about 13 Marines and other personnel to reinforce existing embassy security, CNN reported Tuesday.
The request has been approved by Trump administration officials, the network added.
Staff at the embassy have been instructed to shelter in place by State Department officials, and a travel advisory urging U.S. citizens to stay away from the airport unless absolutely necessary was issued Tuesday afternoon.
"Due to the security situation, U.S. government personnel continue to shelter in place and U.S. citizens are advised to do the same. If you attempt to go to the airport, exercise extreme caution and only do so if the route is open," reads the advisory posted on the State Department's website.
"Do not travel to the airport unless you have a confirmed airline ticket. Contact the airline for information on seat availability. Expect large crowds and delays at the airport," the statement continued.
Prices of kerosene are expected to raise 51 percent, according to Haitian press, while other fuel sources such as gasoline and diesel are expected to rise 38 percent and 47 percent, respectively. The hikes, coupled with expected cuts to food subsidies, resulted in a nationwide transit strike, leaving streets largely deserted.
According to NBC News, volunteer groups from South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Alabama are stuck in the country while a doctor from North Carolina reported to his family that he and his son arrived at the airport and were told they were unable to leave.
What that Nuke from orbit line again ? LOL
Send Bill and Hillary!
They’re so caring and have already raised gobs o’ money to help out . . .
Oh, that’s right ... .
Send in Conan O’Brien since this is clearly a scurrilous request.
Well, nobody made a movie to pies off the Haitians so there is really nothing to worry about.
U.S. Marines will be sent to protect the Haitian 1% from their own people? Doesn’t Haiti have their own military?
Does the U.S. even get paid for this type of intervention?
Being “paid” with empty compliments doesn’t count.
Wait just a minute....thought the Clintons fixed the place? Sean Penn too.
Send the Clintons down there, they’ll know how to fix it.
Piss off
I hate auto-correct, or auto-error as it has become...
Maybe we should airlift tens of thousands of Haitians as illegal immigrants into the US and set them up with welfare, medical and surgical hospital care, apartments, cell phones, and EBT cards and voter ID cards.
Or maybe not.
I was thinking they should distribute posters of the Clintons and Chelsea to the crowd so we can have the pictures on the nightly news of the crowd lighting them on fire...
If anything goes wrong Trump is going to be crucified.
Perhaps Trudeau and Macron will do something to help Haiti. Or perhaps not.
Just nuke these animals. The reason why they’re screwed is because all care about is voodoo crap.
According to NBC News, volunteer groups from South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Alabama are stuck in the country
“raise fuel prices and cut food subsidies”
Gotta love it when the government runs things.
LOL! And I bet you’d find most or even all of them were - gasp! - church groups. A lot of churches, both Catholic and Protestant, in the lower south send volunteers to Haiti to work on sanitation, health, etc.
Good call.
Can’t cure stupidity. The things people will type when they have anonymity.
Haiti made a deal with the devil to get its independence, theykve been paying for it ever since.
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