CRIME Haiti Is Collapsing: Interior Ministry Set on Fire, Presidential Palace Attacked - PM Henry Faces Mounting Internal and External Pressure To Resign

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Yeah... Shelbyville TN has hundreds of Somalis that work in Tyson chicken plants.
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Just doing those jobs that Americans won't do - at that price.

Of course if they paid the help more - then chicken would be more expensive - but someone could afford to eat it.

I.e. Henry Ford DOUBLED assembly line work pay - and allowed that now the workers could afford to buy the cars they build. Of course it also helped all those other businesses that someone needs a car to get to. What goes around eventually gets around - to EVERYONE. And not just some fat-cat elite.

Anything other than this is a spiral down the "least cost" toilet. Chasing each other to be the first turd in the drain. Or the last to continue floating on top.

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My son and grandson are in Haiti. My grandson is 9 years old and in the 4th grade. However you feel about Haitians, that is my grandson by blood. The embassy refuses to give him a visa or recognize him as a US citizen. My grandson can't leave and my son won't leave him behind. Please, no hate. :( (Grandma needs some Zanax)
 
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Not that hati is not normally fubar, apparently it's getting extra spicy.

I'm sure the DR is glad they built that border wall.

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Haiti Is Collapsing: Interior Ministry Set on Fire, Presidential Palace Attacked - PM Henry Faces Mounting Internal and External Pressure To Resign | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran

The present situation in Haiti defies our capacity for hyperbole.
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Haiti Is Collapsing: Interior Ministry Set on Fire, Presidential Palace Attacked - PM Henry Faces Mounting Internal and External Pressure To Resign

Haiti forces are frequently overpowered by rebels.

The present situation in Haiti defies our capacity for hyperbole. After more than a week of widespread violence and chaos, the country is politically adrift as Prime Minster Ariel Henry can’t even return to the country, and faces both internal and international pressure to resign.

MSM headlines try to describe it by saying that Haiti ‘may fall at any time,’ is ‘on the brink,’ ‘spiraling into chaos,’ and further pointing out that ‘a major humanitarian crisis is unfolding.’

The heavily armed men who control the capital Port-au-Prince and are about to overthrow the government are still described as ‘gang members,’ but, by now, they have all but morphed into a rebel force posing as an alternative to the government.

Calls for some kind of foreign force to intervene in Haiti are multiplying, but by now, there is apparently no possibility of ‘peace-keeping’ – whoever goes in will have to wrestle control by force.

At this point, the seemingly inevitable outcome is for PM Henry to be deposed. But then what?

The Interior Ministry was set ablaze overnight, and multiple police stations and government offices were attacked in the capital.

Bloomberg reported:

“Local media reported intense fighting in downtown Port-au-Prince, as more than a week of violence aimed at toppling the government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry reached a new peak.”

Caribbean Community Caricom Chairman Mohamed Irfaan Ali:

“We are acutely aware of the urgent need for consensus. We have impressed on the respective parties that time is not on their side in agreeing to the way forward. From our reports, the situation on the ground remains dire, and is of serious concern to us.”

Meanwhile, the political leader who should be heading the effort against the gang rebels can’t even return to the country.

“[Prime Minister] Henry, who left Haiti on Feb. 25 to build support for a multinational security force led by Kenya, has been unable to return to the country, as gangs have attacked the capital and closed the main airport. The Biden administration has called on Henry to support a transition of power.”

Last we heard from Henry, he was in Puerto Rico facing growing pressure — both domestically and from abroad — to resign and make way for a transitional government.

The armed gang rebels launched a large-scale assault against multiple government buildings.

ABC News reported:

“The attack was coordinated and swift, with different groups simultaneously targeting multiple government buildings including the Presidential Palace, the Interior Ministry, and a police headquarters for Haiti’s western district which includes Port-au-Prince.”

Intense gunfire and heard large explosions were heard.

“Preliminary numbers indicate around a dozen gang fighters were killed, though cautioned the figure was not fully confirmed. No police casualties have yet been reported.”

Haiti is collapsing as we speak:

• Interior Ministry on fire
• Attacks on the international airport
• Gunfights outside the Presidential Palace
• Attempted breaches of the Ministry of Education and Supreme Court

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This is like saying it is Tuesday...... Hati is always collapsing or on the verge of doing so....
 
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Just in: Haiti has fallen to Russia backed gangs.
US embassy is being evacuated.
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I know there was an airlift in the middle of the night. 30 Marines were flown in by chopper and more non-essential personnel were flown out but the Embassy was still present. More may have happened today, but I haven't seen it posted yet. Yes, Russia is a factor. In the last couple of days, the gangs were fought off at the airport, the main police station, and the presidential palace. Heavy gun battles but they lost this time.
 
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Several Detachments of U.S. Marines under Orders from President Biden arrived last night in the Haitian Capital City of Port-au-Prince via Helicopter to Reinforce the U.S. Embassy and to Evacuate any Non-Essential Personnel as well as their Families back to the United States; this Airlift comes as Violent Gangs have now reportedly taken Control of over 80% of the Capital causing 2 Large-Scale Prison Breaks with Attacks now Targeting the Tabarre Commune where the U.S. Embassy is Located.
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I know there was an airlift in the middle of the night. 30 Marines were flown in by chopper and more non-essential personnel were flown out but the Embassy was still present. More may have happened today, but I haven't seen it posted yet. Yes, Russia is a factor.
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Thanks for your posts- accurate and informative info/posters should be heard of far more often :: hint hint :: : )
 
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German Ambassador, Other EU Envoys Leave Violence-hit Haiti: Berlin

The German foreign ministry said its ambassador to Haiti joined other European Union representatives in leaving for the Dominican Republic on Sunday as the country spiralled deeper into gang violence.
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German Ambassador, Other EU Envoys Leave Violence-hit Haiti: Berlin​


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The German foreign ministry said its ambassador to Haiti joined other European Union representatives in leaving for the Dominican Republic on Sunday as the country spiralled deeper into gang violence.

"Due to the very tense security situation in Haiti, the German ambassador and the permanent representative in Port-au-Prince left for the Dominican Republic today together with representatives from the EU delegation," a ministry spokesman told AFP, adding that they would work from there "until further notice".

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The arrival of a UN force is imminent, led by Kenya. Possibly by tomorrow. Kenya police officers vs undisciplined ragtag gangs. Hmmm.
 
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Canada's UN ambassador says gangs now control Haiti. What will the international community do?​

Ariel Henry has led Haiti since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021​


Christian Paas-Lang · CBC News · Posted: Mar 10, 2024 2:18 PM PDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago

Canada's ambassador to the United Nations says the world must act as the situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate, ahead of major meetings of Caribbean nations and partners in Jamaica.

Bob Rae will travel to Kingston to meet with other leaders at a gathering of CARICOM, the Caribbean intergovernmental organization, to discuss the chaos in Haiti. In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live on Sunday, he said the situation is extremely serious.

"The country is now effectively run by gangs, and that is something which cannot be allowed to continue," Rae told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.

Haiti is gripped by chaos and disorder, as criminal gangs increasingly assert control over the country. Haiti's acting leader, Ariel Henry, is outside the country and attempting to negotiate a way home, even as the United States calls for him to resign and plan elections for a new government.

On Sunday, the U.S. said it had deployed additional security to its embassy in Port-au-Prince and airlifted some non-essential diplomatic staff out of the country.

The United Nations said in a report published earlier this year that at least 4,789 people were killed in violence in the country in 2023, nearly double the previous year. Gangs have shut down the capital's airport and freed thousands of prisoners in recent days.

A UN-backed deal for a multinational force led by Kenya has languished for months, blocked by internal legal issues. Haiti had requested an international force, as well as economic aid.

Henry originally left the country last week in order to meet with Kenyan leadership and push for the deployment. He has reportedly been in Puerto Rico since Tuesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken again pushed on Thursday for Henry to resign, according to Reuters.

Daniel Foote, the former U.S. special envoy to Haiti, told CBC News this week that Henry now has little choice but to step down."There's no government to go back to. There wasn't a government a week ago, and there's no government now.

"If he goes back, I'm ... certain that he'll be killed."

Foote urged the international community not to impose a solution on Haiti but to empower the country to reach its own political resolution.
"If the international community makes their decisions again this time, the results will be equally catastrophic than we're seeing today."

Rae said on Sunday that the disorder in the country is making it impossible to bring in much-needed goods and aid.

"We've been involved with a number of mediation efforts to try to get a transitional government in place that can in fact deal more effectively with the chaos and the gangs," he said.

"We are really going to try to see not only how do we ... encourage the Haitians to create a successful transition, but how do we make sure that we're able to respond to the criminal activities that have taken over the country."

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Christian Paas-Lang covers federal politics for CBC News in Ottawa as an associate producer with The House and a digital writer with CBC Politics. You can reach him at christian.paas-lang@cbc.ca.
With files from Rosemary Barton, Lisa Mayor, Rhianna Schmunk and Reuters
 
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Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti?

Jimmy Chérizier says he is leading Haiti’s poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent past
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Jimmy Chérizier says he is leading Haiti’s poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent past
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Murals in the pauperized Haitian slums he rules liken him to the Argentinian guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
In interviews, he poses as a God-fearing Caribbean Robin Hood and celebrates freedom fighters and agitators including Fidel Castro, Thomas Sankara and Malcolm X.

“I like Martin Luther King, too,” the Haitian gang boss Jimmy Chérizier told the New Yorker journalist Jon Lee Anderson when they met last year. “But he didn’t like fighting with guns, and I fight with guns.”

The stunning gang-led insurrection against Haiti’s government has catapulted Chérizier, a raffish, rifle-wielding 47-year-old mobster, into the international headlines – a place history suggests he enjoys.

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Over the past five years the Haitian outlaw – who has emerged as the main spokesman for the gang uprising against Prime Minister Ariel Henry – has welcomed a succession of foreign reporters to his gangland domain hoping to justify what he calls his noble – if bloody – crusade to defend his country’s famished urban poor.

“I’m not a thief. I’m not involved in kidnapping. I’m not a rapist. I’m just carrying out a social fight,” Chérizier told the Associated Press last year while sat outside a bullet-pocked house.

In a 2022 interview with Vice, Chérizier called his ragtag favela army “a sociopolitical structure and force that is fighting on behalf of the vulnerable”.

Experts say the truth about Chérizier – who is best known as simply Babekyou (Barbecue) – is far more complicated and unsavory.

Born during the 1970s, during the brutal and corrupt reign of Baby Doc Duvalier, Chérizier has previously said he was one of eight siblings and lost his father at the age of five. The children grew up in Delmas, one of the rundown Port-au-Prince communities he now runs, by a mother who hawked fried chicken on the streets.

By Chérizier’s account, it was his mother’s occupation that earned him the nickname Barbecue, although many claim that a habit of incinerating his victims was the real reason.

Before establishing himself as Haiti’s most influential gang kingpin, Chérizier was a member of the country’s national police. He worked for the Unité départementale de maintien d’ordre, a riot squad whose members have been accused of shooting protesters dead.
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Haitians protest in Port-au-Prince to demand Ariel Henry’s resignation. Photograph: Johnson Sabin/EPA

The motto of Haiti’s police is “proteger et servir”: to protect and serve. But Chérizier – who has also publicly voiced admiration for François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Baby Doc’s father – appears not to have honoured those values.

He was expelled from the force in 2018 for alleged involvement in a litany of crimes, including a horrific massacre that year in a slum called La Saline in which 71 people were killed, seven women raped and 400 homes torched.

Chérizier, who leads a gang alliance called the G9 Family and Allies, has denied wrongdoing. But the former police officer has been sanctioned by both the US and the UN for his alleged crimes. The G9 controls some of Port-au-Prince’s largest slums and most important road arteries allowing Chérizier to paralyze the country on several occasions, cutting off petrol supplies and forcing schools and hospitals to close.

“He is a criminal businessman,” said Louis-Henri Mars, director of the Haitian non-profit Lakou Lapè.
“In 2020 me and other peace-builders went to see him to ask him to stop his assaults on the Bel Air neighbourhood [in Port-au-Prince] and he made some promises,” Mars added. “But he still continued burning down people’s houses. He listens, but in the end he does what is in his best interest.”

Speaking to the Financial Times, Mars compared the gangster to a volcano, constantly poised to erupt. “He has some charisma, he’s a thinker, but he’s a violent individual also.”

Like many Haitian crime bosses, Chérizier is also a man with high-level political connections. He was rumoured to be close to the former president Jovenel Moïse, whose 2021 assassination paved the way for the current mayhem.

Some suspect Chérizier has political aspirations of his own.

“Barbecue is engaging and really is a natural politician … when I met him, I knew straightaway [he] was a force to be reckoned with,” the Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay wrote after their 2023 encounter.

“He sees himself as a revolutionary fighting against the dark corruption of government and oligarch businessmen, but make no mistake, he is an out-and-out gangster.”

Diego Da Rin, an International Crisis Group Haiti specialist, said Chérizier’s attempt to paint himself as a compassionate if iron-fisted champion of the ghetto was not entirely without basis. “He gives women presents on Mother’s Day. He gives money to families that don’t have the means to send their kids to school. But people are aware that he is [also] one of the main people responsible for the nightmare they are living,” Da Rin said.

That nightmare plumbed new depths this week after Chérizier announced he was leading a massive gang assault against Henry’s government, and ordered his gunmen out on to the streets to sow chaos. Since the attacks began on 29 February, criminals have burned dozens of businesses and police stations, forced the international airport to close, freed thousands of hardened criminals from jail, and laid siege to the port.
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Henry, who was in Africa when the uprising began, has said nothing and been unable to return home.
“Unfortunately, Barbecue is now the most powerful man in Haiti,” said Judes Jonathas, an independent consultant based in Port-au-Prince.
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The arrival of a UN force is imminent, led by Kenya. Possibly by tomorrow. Kenya police officers vs undisciplined ragtag gangs. Hmmm.
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The prior proposal was for 1000 Kenyan "police officers". That won't do it now. Heck with Daesh running around the neighborhood, Kenya can ill afford sending anyone somewhere else.

Never mind you're talking Kenyan personnel who don't speak Haitian Creole or French and asking them to "police" the situation.....
 
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The Russians might be preferable to the existing alternatives. No idea why they’d want to be in that mess though. Also not sure I want them setting up shop in Haiti either. A bit too close to us. But, they’d settle things down.
 
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The Russians might be preferable to the existing alternatives. No idea why they’d want to be in that mess though. Also not sure I want them setting up shop in Haiti either. A bit too close to us. But, they’d settle things down.
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It's more than a bit "convienient" to say/report that the "Russians" are involved. If they'd said Cubans or Venezuelans it would be a bit more believable IMHO.
 
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The prior proposal was for 1000 Kenyan "police officers". That won't do it now. Heck with Daesh running around the neighborhood, Kenya can ill afford sending anyone somewhere else.

Never mind you're talking Kenyan personnel who don't speak Haitian Creole or French and asking them to "police" the situation.....
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The rumble video in Post 7 referred to them as "Kenyan Death Squads".

Given the current situation on the ground the semantics may be a minor issue...
 
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MMWW said:
My son and grandson are in Haiti. My grandson is 9 years old and in the 4th grade. However you feel about Haitians, that is my grandson by blood. The embassy refuses to give him a visa or recognize him as a US citizen. My grandson can't leave and my son won't leave him behind. Please, no hate. :( (Grandma needs some Zanax)
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Prayers for your son and grandson. And for you, too, Grandma.
 
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My son and grandson are in Haiti. My grandson is 9 years old and in the 4th grade. However you feel about Haitians, that is my grandson by blood. The embassy refuses to give him a visa or recognize him as a US citizen. My grandson can't leave and my son won't leave him behind. Please, no hate. :( (Grandma needs some Zanax)
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I hope they can both get out safely soon. Have you tried contacting your Representative and Senators for help?
 
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My son and grandson are in Haiti. My grandson is 9 years old and in the 4th grade. However you feel about Haitians, that is my grandson by blood. The embassy refuses to give him a visa or recognize him as a US citizen. My grandson can't leave and my son won't leave him behind. Please, no hate. :( (Grandma needs some Zanax)
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Prayers for your son and grandson's safety.
 
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However, thinking about things going bad in America, we might eventually be calling on russia to bring order here after a time.
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I think the plan is to ask the CCP to quell the US riots.

They have a lot invested in this country - they need to protect their investment.

Like Biden. Like McConnell. Like Schumer. Like McCarthy. Possibly even Johnson.

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