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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: outofsalt

“Since the 2010 earthquake, the United States has made available over $5.1 billion for assistance to Haiti...”

$5 billion of which is in Swiss bank accounts and the rest at tHe DNC.


81 posted on 03/10/2024 1:49:05 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Grampa Dave

“In reaching this conclusion, the Court does not address the lawfulness of the Program,”

You were supposed to...asswipe!


82 posted on 03/10/2024 1:51:14 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Dan in Wichita

“...but anyone who travels there puts themselves in grave danger...”

My son in law was there in the Army a few years ago and said the only thing that saved his ass was his 12 gauge shotgun.


83 posted on 03/10/2024 1:55:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Yardstick

“If the presumed bad guys wind up running the place better than the internationally anointed good guys, that would be quite a plot twist.”

They are bad guys looking out for themselves but their self interest may be better than the scam Clinton Foundation or failed (some would say disastrous) UN relief effort of later years.
So is it an occupation by thousands of foreign troops ( who would that be?) for years with a resentful population? Or some kind of cruddy gang oligarch government that does not pull Haiti out of it’s 100s of year of failure, only looking to retire to some kind of beachfront secure compound.

I may quit now too much armchair diplomat/general thoughts.


84 posted on 03/10/2024 2:39:47 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: desertsolitaire

All good questions.

Henry seems to fit in with a long line of past Haiti “leaders.”


85 posted on 03/11/2024 6:09:40 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: hardspunned

U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton said Texas and 20 other states had not shown they had suffered financial harm because of the humanitarian parole program that allows up to 30,000 asylum-seekers into the U.S. each month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela combined.=,1 day ago


86 posted on 03/12/2024 12:37:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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To: Blue Highway

She wears a wig? Shows you how naive I am. She is a good representative of the Biden dysfunctional cabal.


87 posted on 03/12/2024 12:57:34 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Bon of Babble

>>How many millions will be flown in here as “refugees fleeing their war-torn country”<<

That is totally up to the American voter who still clings to an anti-American leader. Remove him from the ballot and you’ll get rid of the problem.


88 posted on 03/12/2024 1:05:02 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: butlerweave

To France that created it.


89 posted on 03/12/2024 1:06:40 PM PDT by 353FMG
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