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Caribbean-Latin America
Haiti in chaos: Capital is taken over by gangs who murder and kidnap at will - with families forced to listen to hostages being gang-raped until they pay ransoms of up to $1million
2022-12-06
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] So what’s new? We watched the kidnapping of a group of American missionaries by the 400 Mawozo gang which controls the Croix-des-Bouquets area east of the capital of Port-au-Prince just a year ago.
  • Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane

  • Into that power vacuum have moved hundreds of gangs, which operate with near-total impunity especially in the capital of Port-au-Prince

  • Kidnappings, murders, and gang rapes now common - with relatives of some victims forced to listen to attacks until ransom is paid
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Port-au-Prince: 2022-11-12 Haiti: In the grip of the gangs
Port-au-Prince: 2022-11-03 Intervention needed now in Haiti ‐ foreign entities must work with Haitians
Port-au-Prince: 2022-10-05 Biden Frees Maduro's Cocaine-Trafficking ‘Narco-Nephews' in Venezuela Hostage Swap
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Jovenel Moise: 2022-09-16 Biden's dirty deal sold out Haitian democracy for migrant deportations, former envoy says
Jovenel Moise: 2022-05-07 Dozens killed in Haiti in 2 weeks of gun battles, thousands flee homes
Jovenel Moise: 2022-02-01 Police station and radio station attacked in Haiti
Related:
400 Mawozo: 2022-11-12 Haiti: In the grip of the gangs
400 Mawozo: 2021-12-21 Kidnapped Missionaries Made Daring Escape in Haiti
400 Mawozo: 2021-12-18 All from US missionary group freed in Haiti, police say
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  *Opens new container of brain bleach and pass it around*
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-12-06 23:25  

#16  ...At the risk of sounding insensitive, where the hell are these people getting a million dollars?

Here again, only my guess, but might they be the ones whose daughters are being kidnapped and raped until they pay the gangs?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-12-06 13:41  

#15  I would say the United States should annex Haiti to provide some semblance of order and stability but, then, it was the French who made Haiti what it is so it should be their responsibility now. Either that or we could all step back and watch to see how much worse it can get. My guess would be that sooner or later one of the gang leaders who is bigger and badder than the rest will emerge as the new Papa Doc.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-12-06 13:39  

#14  ...At the risk of sounding insensitive, where the hell are these people getting a million dollars?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-12-06 12:18  

#13  Haiti has no functioning government and yet, World total of foreign aid to Haiti:
Haiti received US$13 billion in foreign aid from the international community from 2011 to 2021.[5] Despite this, living conditions remain poor.[6] According to page 35 of the Greening Aid book there are key questions that arise on where the money flows and why.

Proof that in government - you can't fix stupid!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Haiti

Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-12-06 11:52  

#12  /\ But it's a British Colonial stockade steeped in apartheid and abuse.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-06 09:42  

#11  Yet the Dominican Republic survives and thrives

Yes, but to be fair, that is completely the other side of the island.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-12-06 09:38  

#10  Another Caribbean doorstep for China.

Remember?

Haiti Turmoil May Open Door for China's 'Political Interference'
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-06 09:24  

#9  Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane

Yet the Dominican Republic survives and keeps sending ballplayers to MLB thrives
Posted by: Frank G   2022-12-06 08:51  

#8  An early example of 'successful' decolonization.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-06 08:30  

#7  At least in Papa Doc's time there was only one gang that operated with total impunity.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-12-06 08:21  

#6  There definitely is such a thing as "tragic dirt."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-06 08:06  

#5  Before mine too, Raj (unless you consider the absolutely repressive regime of Papa Doc between '57 and '71 as a variant of 'functional')

History of Haiti - It reads like a very bad dystopian novel.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-12-06 08:03  

#4  So par for the course.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-12-06 07:58  

#3  Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane

Um - exactly when did Haiti ever have a 'functioning government'? Probably before I was born.
Posted by: Raj   2022-12-06 00:39  

#2  KBK - that's enough to make a man give up sex on a permanent basis.
Posted by: Raj   2022-12-06 00:38  

#1  

Send her.
Posted by: KBK   2022-12-06 00:14  

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