Posted on 07/28/2023 12:42:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
The embassy further warned that the U.S. government could only offer "extremely limited" assistance and that remaining government personnel were prohibited from leaving the area around the embassy.
The U.S. State Department ordered all government personnel to evacuate the Caribbean nation of Haiti amid a significant rise in gang violence and domestic turmoil.
The embassy in Port-au-Prince announced a "Do Not Travel" order, citing heightened risk of kidnapping. Non-emergency government personnel were also ordered to leave the country.
"Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure," the warning reads. "On July 27, 2023, the Department of State ordered the departure of family members of U.S. government employees and non-emergency U.S. government employees."
"U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options, in light of the current security situation and infrastructure challenges. U.S. citizens wishing to depart Port-au-Prince should monitor local news and only do so when considered safe," it continued.
The embassy further warned that the U.S. government could only offer "extremely limited" assistance and that remaining government personnel were prohibited from leaving the area around the embassy. They further may not use public transportation or taxis, visit banks or use ATMs, drive at night, or travel anywhere without authorization.
or Canada.......................😁
“...kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure...”
Why would anyone go there, for a vacation or anything?
We have had problems with Haiti ever since the early 1900’s.
Question: Could a permanent solution to what ails that country be found? Perhaps the next administration could gather together the rest of Latin America along with the French to do something that I would call The Final Solution. After all this time I’m getting sick of this.
My idea: Gather the 25 French-speaking countries and disperse the people-Africa getting the bad guys. We’d have to take in our share. Welfare checks for 10 years. No females of child-bearing age left behind.
Next-give it to the Dominican Republic after 49-99 years. US protectorate in the meantime. A good place for a penal colony. Import prison employees from the 3rd world-cheap. Even El Salvador will want to get in on it. They’re locking up their gang members big time.
Why does our state department even have anybody living there, other than maybe our appointed Ambassador?
Talk about getting the short straw, ambassador to Haiti.
Maybe that person is someone assigned to manage basic health care and vaccines on that island. Health care the US donates.
I knew an American missionary team member who went there @ 30 years ago for a nursing trip.
Must be a Great-Grand-Baby Doc looking to bring back them Tire Necklaces.
Rock on, Ton Tons
Or just cut it loose from the civilized world, and when disease, starvation, and self-predation take their toll, and it gets down to maybe a few hundred breeding pairs, and the ravages of deforestation subside, cordon it off from all maritime/air traffic like North Sentinal Island in the Andaman Sea, and let them live undisturbed for 50,000 years or so unencumbered by pesky civilization.
LOL !
Every french colony is a disaster.
Ever heard of algiers? Vietnam? Laos? The list goes on and on.
Excellent Gator !
It seems like all out anarchy. Government, whatever pretense of one they have, has virtually no control over the country. It will require a winner-take-all civil war, or outside military intervention to fix it. Or, a generation of exodus and death leaving little left to fight over. I doubt the Colombians would even try to ship their drugs through that route anymore. They have a cooperative governments in Mexico City and Washington DC these days.
“ Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure,”
Sounds exactly like the southern U.S. border region.
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