Posted on 03/04/2024 9:37:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have ordered a nighttime curfew after an explosion of violence when gang gunmen overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend.
A 72-hour state of emergency began Sunday night. The government said it would set out to find the killers, kidnappers and other criminals who fled.
“The police were ordered to use all legal means at their disposal to enforce the curfew and apprehend all offenders,” said a statement from Finance Minister Patrick Boivert, the acting prime minister.
Gangs already were estimated to control up to 80% of Port-au-Prince, the capital. They are increasingly coordinating their actions and choosing once unthinkable targets like the Central Bank.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry traveled abroad last week to try to salvage support for a United Nations-backed security force to help stabilize Haiti in its conflict with the increasingly powerful crime groups.
Haiti’s National Police has roughly 9,000 officers to provide security for more than 11 million people, according to the U.N. They are routinely overwhelmed and outgunned.
The deadly weekend marked a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of violence. At least nine people had been killed since Thursday — four of them police officers — as gangs stepped up coordinated attacks on state institutions in Port-au-Prince, including the international airport and national soccer stadium.
But the attack on the National Penitentiary late Saturday shocked Haitians who are accustomed to living under the constant threat of violence.
Almost all of the estimated 4,000 inmates escaped. Three bodies with gunshot wounds lay at the prison entrance Sunday.
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Government? What government?
Biden orders another Muriel Boatlift to rescue them and bring them here.
Black lives matter on steroids.
Where is the Tonton Macoute when you need them.
Shouting Nan Chicago nan otèl byennèt nou yo
Haitian Creole for On to Chicago to our welfare hotels
That’s too slow.
Brandon chartered airplanes to go get them.
Hmmmm! Will the Clintoon glowbull initiative fund pay the transport costs to get them to Eagle Pass TX?
I’ve read that during the rule of the Duvaliers’ Father Son succession , 90% or greater of the population was impoverished, illiterate, malnourished and constantly ill with preventable diseases of poverty. Yet have things measurably improved for Haitians since they left office?
Didn’t the Clinton foundation gather a gigantic amount of World donations for Haiti after that terrible earthquake? Did those funds have any lasting good effect for the people there?
They will be at our southern border within a week and all over the US in two weeks.
These gangs essentially ARE the Tonton Macoute ...
Perhaps the US government should fund more secure prisons for Haiti and El Salvador to control the gang problem better.
Perhaps US income earners from countries with a gang problem should have to pay a federal gang control supplemental income tax.
Haiti needs more Diversity
El Salvador last year recorded its lowest murder rate in three decades, the government said Wednesday, hailing President Nayib Bukele's controversial war on gangs.A total of 154 murders registered in the country of 6.6 million people amounted to a rate of 2.4 per 100,000 inhabitants -- down from 495 murders in 2022, officials said.
The rate was almost a third lower than the world average as tallied by UN agencies.
Ha.
But we have to go on without Barbara Billingsley.
Maybe hire some Haitian Creole tutors like the LA school system requires for all immigrant students to have. Probably $55 million or so.
As the UN was asked to send a peacekeeping force to Haiti, leaders at the UN had to decide whether the women and girls in Haiti were worth raping.
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