What the Heck is Happening in Haiti??????
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Haiti has always been, pardon the expression, a shit-hole country.
This takes it to a new level of shit-hole-ness, however.
I wonder if the US will intervene.
@George-K said in What the Heck is Happening in Haiti??????:
Haiti has always been, pardon the expression, a shit-hole country.
This takes it to a new level of shit-hole-ness, however.
I wonder if the US will intervene.
Same island, two governments. One functions pretty well, the other struggles to even call itself a government.
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@89th said in What the Heck is Happening in Haiti??????:
How soon before the mass migration from Haiti to the USA?
Oh...yesterday.
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-deploys-250-officers-soldiers-111214524.html
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@89th said in What the Heck is Happening in Haiti??????:
How soon before the mass migration from Haiti to the USA?
Oh...yesterday.
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-deploys-250-officers-soldiers-111214524.html
@George-K said in What the Heck is Happening in Haiti??????:
@89th said in What the Heck is Happening in Haiti??????:
How soon before the mass migration from Haiti to the USA?
Oh...yesterday.
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-deploys-250-officers-soldiers-111214524.html
By the way, I wonder how long it'll be before someone files a suit claiming that Florida has no standing to do this - after all immigration and border security is a Federal issue.
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The worst fears of midwives at Heartline Haiti were realised last week. As they prepared the maternity clinic for patients that evening, armed men laid siege to their neighbourhood in eastern Port-au-Prince, spraying bullets at police and rival gangs, setting cars on fire and ransacking houses.
“All of our staff were huddled in an interior hallway hearing the noises outside the gates and walls, afraid they may be next,” says Tara Livesay, the NGO’s executive director. “A gang member was shot dead outside, just two doors over.”
After a terrifying night, staff managed to make it out safely the next morning when the street battles subsided. The organisation has had no option but to close the clinic, leaving the 75 pregnant women it had been supporting with nowhere to go for medical care or to have their babies delivered.
“We’ve tried so hard to keep the clinic open but there is not much else we can do now. I can’t ask people to go to work if they might get hit by a bullet,” says Livesay.
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More sad news from that messed up country.
Three people, a Haitian man and an American couple who all worked for a Christian mission organization, were killed by gang members near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday night (May 23). The group had reportedly been kidnapped earlier in the evening after leaving a youth event hosted at a church.
Natalie and Davy Lloyd moved from Oklahoma to Haiti in 2022 to work for Missions in Haiti, Inc. The third person killed was the Haitian director of the organization, Jude Montis.
Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd, who founded the organization in 2000, shared the news of their death in a Facebook post around 2 a.m. Friday, saying the couple had been shot by gang members around 9 p.m.
