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Haiti in Chaos As Armed Gangs Take Over Capital, US Embassy Staff Evacuated
Newsweak ^ | 3/10/24 | Ellie Cook

Posted on 03/10/2024 8:07:13 AM PDT by hardspunned

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti is evacuating some of its personnel from the nation's capital as rampant gang violence intensifies.

"Heightened gang violence in the neighborhood near U.S. Embassy compounds and near the airport led to the State Department's decision to arrange for the departure of additional embassy personnel," the embassy, based in Port-au-Prince, said in a statement on Sunday.

The embassy remains open. The U.S. had previously warned its citizens that they should "depart Haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options."

Earlier this month, armed gangs orchestrated jailbreaks from Haiti's two largest prisons and demanded the resignation of the Caribbean nation's prime minister, Ariel Henry. The Haitian leader is not currently in the country, and is petitioning the international community for a United Nations-backed security force to step in.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: donate2freerepublic; haiti; haitichaos
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To: hardspunned

So our government is getting a look at a REAL insurrection. I wonder if our government tyrants can distinguish between Haiti and J6.


41 posted on 03/10/2024 8:46:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: outofsalt

Money well spent, huh?


42 posted on 03/10/2024 8:46:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: EEGator
This is making me think if Kipling:

Your new-caught, sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

43 posted on 03/10/2024 8:47:33 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tai_Chung

Maybe the ships soon to be leaving the new port in Gaza with thousands of “refugees” can put into Port-au-Prince to load a few more.


44 posted on 03/10/2024 8:48:21 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Grampa Dave

“...Texas and 20 other Republican-led states didn’t have legal standing in the lawsuit because they didn’t demonstrate suffered financial harm...”


No financial harm from a third of a million a year. Even one kid attending school represents 10s of thousands of dollars per year plus extra staff to teach English.


45 posted on 03/10/2024 8:58:13 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: PGR88

Your thought and quote is more eloquent than mine.

For some reason I thought of the James Bond flick with voodoo, and the 7UP “uncola” commercial guy...


46 posted on 03/10/2024 9:04:52 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: anton

>If you look up “Third World Shithole” in the dictionary there will be a map of Haiti.

It’s the gold standard


47 posted on 03/10/2024 9:07:58 AM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: hardspunned

I do not know if Haiti is God-forsaken, that’s God’s call. But, it’s mighty close, wouldn’t you say?


48 posted on 03/10/2024 9:09:28 AM PDT by old school
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To: 353FMG

At least go back and find a better wig. Better than the black little orphan Annie wig she’s been wearing for 2 years.


49 posted on 03/10/2024 9:09:35 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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50 posted on 03/10/2024 9:12:51 AM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: anton

On shit-hole status within Central/South America....I can’t think of any place worse than Haiti. Parts of Brazil...and all of Venezuela are crappy places to live, but they both rank better than Haiti.


51 posted on 03/10/2024 9:13:15 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: metmom

We’ll probably find out month or a year from now that Biden fast-tracked them by flying in the escaped prisoners from Haiti, but instead calling them “refugees”.


52 posted on 03/10/2024 9:13:51 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: hardspunned

If the grifters in government could find a way (amid the Ukraine grift exposure) they’d send the 101st Airborne to quell the “unrest!” But, it’s too politically volatile at the moment. Even Bill Clinton and his horrid wife won’t touch it now!


53 posted on 03/10/2024 9:15:39 AM PDT by old school
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To: hardspunned

Yes, by all means send more of these savages to the U.S....


54 posted on 03/10/2024 9:20:48 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: butlerweave
Too bad they can’t cut it free and tow it to Africa

Ask Hank Johnson, intellectual extraordinaire. He could undoubtedly tell you a way you could do that.

55 posted on 03/10/2024 9:22:31 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: adorno

Regarding the negros, no... never. They are fully incapable of administering a functional society and most are incapable of living in one administered by others.

Mestizos, yes, though rare.


56 posted on 03/10/2024 9:23:45 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: hardspunned

Pope says Haiti should surrender to armed gangs.


57 posted on 03/10/2024 9:25:14 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: hardspunned
Something to consider given our track record on money laundering.

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58 posted on 03/10/2024 9:42:29 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: butlerweave

If ever a nation needed Communism—its Haiti.


59 posted on 03/10/2024 9:45:41 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. )
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To: hardspunned

Hasn’t Haiti been in chaos for a couple hundred years?


60 posted on 03/10/2024 10:07:27 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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