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2024-03-12 Caribbean-Latin America
Has Haiti been taken over by cannibals? UPDATE: PM Ariel Henry resigns
[American Thinker] On Joe Biden's watch, Haiti has fallen into complete chaos, costing the U.S. another embassy.

The government is not functioning at all and barbarians have taken over.

The New York Post reports that it's come to this:

Haiti’s most notorious gang leader, known as "Barbecue," may be the most powerful man in the nation as the prime minister remains unable to return home.

On Sunday, the US announced that troops had evacuated Americans from the US Embassy and additional forces were brought in to secure the diplomatic compound in Port-au-Prince.

Jimmy Chérizier, leader of the notorious "G9 and Family" gang, is in command of the bulk of the gunmen stirring anarchy in the capital — and he vowed to fight until embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns.

"I am ready to make an alliance with the devil, ready to sleep in the same bed as the devil," Chérizier told his supporters last week as his fighters destroyed police stations and other government facilities.

It's part of a trend of nations in our hemisphere falling into extreme states of chaos from newly empowered gangs, all of them made rich from shipping illegal migrants into the U.S. and made muscular with new manpower from major prison breaks preceding the armed takeover attacks.

We've seen it in northern Mexico, we've seen it in Ecuador.

In Venezuela and Nicaragua something comparable is happening, except that the worst has already happened: The gangsters are the government, not challengers to the government. But the chaos is also there and these government gangs are growing rich off shipping illegal migrants to the states and emptying their prisons, too.

Now it's going full blown 'horrible' in Haiti, which has been a major transshipment point of illegal migrants into the states (and closely aligned with Nicaragua's game described here) and now has seen at least two major prison breaks in the runup to this disaster.

Videos have been circulating on Twitter and other places demonstrating that Haitian gangs are eating people as cannibals. One video, since deleted, showed someone swiftly macheting a leg off at the knee in a burning tire fire in a street like a piece of meat. Another video (also deleted) showed some savage chewing on someone's finger and then ripping a chunk off some burning corpse's leg in the street, encircled by burning tires, and then chowing down again. I saw these videos and they were both repulsive.

According to the Hindustan Times, the cannibalism did happen in Haiti's Artibonite Valley near its Dominican border, but the video is two years old.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [57 views ]  Top
 File under: Mob Rule 

#1 Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry, 74, resigns following emergency summit of Caribbean leaders, says president of Guyana - after gangs warned of civil war and 'genocide' if he did not step down amid bloody uprising
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-12 01:04||   2024-03-12 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 "Today, on the Cooking Channel..."
Posted by Frank G 2024-03-12 06:40||   2024-03-12 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Phagocytosis? Is this actually the natural order ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-12 07:25||   2024-03-12 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ We've been lied to yet again!
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-12 08:03||   2024-03-12 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 The leaders name is "Barbecue". Question answered.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-03-12 12:29||   2024-03-12 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Somebody posted a comment here yesterday to the effect that Port-au-Prince is like Mogadishu but with better cuisine. Whoever posted that comment might want to rethink his assessment in light of new information...or not.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-03-12 12:40||   2024-03-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey, I didn't know about the new stew cuisine options Abu!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-12 14:02||   2024-03-12 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 But in unreported MSM news, more effort is being made to speed up construction, Wiki cite follows:
"In February 2023, construction was started on a border wall that will cover 164 kilometers (102 miles) of the 392-kilometer (244 miles) border with Haiti.[21][22] The 3.9 meters (12.8 feet) high wall is 20-centimeter-thick concrete topped by a metal mesh, and contains fiber optics for communications, movement sensors, cameras, radars and drones.[21][23] The project includes 70 watchtowers and 41 access gates for patrolling.[21] This $32 million project will be the second longest border wall in the Americas, after the US-Mexico wall.[22] ... as a measure to reduce irregular migration from Haiti and smuggling.[24][21] The idea is supported by the majority of the Dominican population.[25] Dominican officials claim the wall will slow the illegal drug trade and reduce the chance of gang violence in Haiti from spreading to the Dominican Republic"
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-12 14:06||   2024-03-12 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9 You can see the border of Haiti and the DR from space due to Haitian deforestation for firewood, Wiki image:
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-12 14:10||   2024-03-12 14:10|| Front Page Top

#10 US announces $100M for deployment of multinational force to violence-stricken Haiti
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-12 15:28||   2024-03-12 15:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Hold up. You saying that if the natural gas and electricity are shut off, people will cook using wood?

That's not what Grrrta told me.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-12 16:58||   2024-03-12 16:58|| Front Page Top










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