Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs.
It comes after a sustained attack on the international airport, which remains closed to all flights – including one carrying Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
He tried to fly back to Haiti from the United States last week, but his plane was refused permission to land. He was then turned away from the neighbouring Dominican Republic too.
Mr Henry is now stuck in Puerto Rico, unable to set foot in the nation he ostensibly leads.
Among those who did manage to get into the stricken Caribbean nation, though, was a group of US military personnel.
Following a request from the US State Department, the Pentagon confirmed it had carried out an operation to, as it put it, “augment the security” of the US embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlift all non-essential staff to safety.
Soon after, the EU said it had evacuated all of its diplomats, fleeing a nation mired in violence and facing its biggest humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake.
Millions of Haitians, however, simply don’t have that luxury. They’re trapped, no matter how bad things get.
QOTD:
Addendum to QOTD:
…. and promises that women and the LGBTQ crowd will be given equal representation by the new justice system.
Equal for Alphabetties means put on pedestals and worshiped.
The Clinton Foundation’s work in Haiti is done!
Democrats in US: “Jan 6 was in insurrection!”
Gangs in Haiti: “Hold my beer.”
Mr Henry is now stuck in Puerto Rico,…
Poor fella.
Seems like a good time to freeze their bank accounts and invoke the Emergencies Act!
I didn’t know that Kenya was part of Caricom?
So as not to upset the balance of racial harmony in Haiti, all foreign troops sent there must be Black and speak French. France should be able to conscript a large force meeting those requirements. Since France owns the island of Martinique, which is French and Black, it would be the ideal base of operations for the French forces to be sent to Haiti.
Use Saint-Pierre and Miquelon for air-support!
From where France can also recruit from all the Haitians in Montreal. Win-win!
You are 100% correct.
Yeah, sending troops from a country responsible for the slavery that birthed that particular nation sounds like a real good idea, I’m sure the locals will appreciate.
It’s too bad, but it seems the only elixir that will cure Haiti is a well placed nuke.
Haiti is a living example of complete retrograde humanity. Not worth saving .. South Africa is heading in the same direction. Somalia and few others are already there. We absolutely should mind our own business and let these cesspools resolve their own bullshit.
There is ample evidence that the inhabitants therein are not predisposed to peaceful cooperative living … much like the wogs of the Middle East. Another damning feature of Haiti is they all speak French.
I feel like Larry David this morning. I think I have managed to insult half the planet.
We are living in a world where Megalomaniacs are running the joint from top to bottom.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/flashback-leftist-celebs-wore-haiti-is-great-already/
Here we go again, when isn’t that nation suffering from violence and poverty?
And the new leader loves Castro.
Wow never saw that coming
Chalkboard Heresy @CBHeresy
1. Woman goes to Haiti to write about r*pe in Haiti being exaggerated.
2. Gets r*ped repeatedly by Haitian man.
3. Blames it on misdirected “Black rage” against “white world.”
4. Says she is “grateful for the experience.
White liberal women are not well.
https://tinyurl.com/mzxnaycd
[Link to Twitchy report.]
China is buying up the island nations in that region, so let them look after it.
They’ll take a belt to it … then pave the place over like a road
Let the savages eat themselves into extinction.
The inevitable end of all debauched oligarchies, Haiti stretching the limits of poor and rich, corrupt and cowed;
As they approach the Embassy, no doubt aware Americans allow their own people to be looted and pillaged.
Surely angry, incompetent, negligently weak, but very energetic and heartwarming, likely medicated Biden will deter atrocities against Americans subjected to an Antifa BLM fusion of racial justice should the Embassy be breached.
No? Likely yet another failure. OK, thanks; thought I’d check in. Still at DeMarxists progressing to general war.
You just described the streets of Oakland and San Francisco
Like I said, debauched oligarchies.
What’s in store for all of us unless and until voters in all forums put a stop to it.
Along with some judges and other sane sages, now so few, given our Supreme Court is good with government harm from healthcare to Charter violations, but hopefully not Trudeau’s martial law gambit.
Just a preview of coming events in US and Canada.
Has Justin invited them all to come to Canada as
Liberal votersrefugees yet?@Reader:
Well, the Haitians refugees will have to get in line behind all the Afghan refugees Turdoo is again bring to Canada.
Love John Leckie’s QOTD
Wonder if Conan O’Brien will again visit to “disprove” Trump’s characterization of this fine, fine example of humanity.
Tell me again about “The White Man’s Burden”?
Only the American Left wants to Colonize Haiti … then make it the 58th State (didn’t Obama claim we were already up to 57 States?)
They had some dumb white Canuck on TV moaning on about the difficulty he was having in trying to get out of Haiti. Well, wtf was he doing there anyway? Being a tourist?
My neighbor went there long ago to help train law enforcement. He never really got over the ditches full of human skulls. Told me it was useless and hopeless. I wonder where all the money we have sent ended up.
End State? Why, I did my undergraduate there! What a great school! “Go, Finals, go!”
Is it too late to send in Kamala Harris?