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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El Salvador has apparently fixed their problem. Now they have one of the lowest murder rates in the world.
Haiti? The skyrocketing murder rate is just getting started. I suspect any prisoners caught they will export to our southern border. We will be happy to give them "asylum", free room and board in a 4 star hotel and a monthly paycheck just for showing up.
Look for the murder and rape ratee in the USA to skyrocket after our new guests get bored.
Why isn’t the Amnesty International in Haiti suing their government over racist profiling and disproportionate jailing of black men ?
And here they come to our Southern open border
“Government? What government?”
We’ll be asking the same question when it starts here. Oh wait...it already has.
“Did those funds have any lasting good effect for the people there?”
Have the trillions in foreign aid to Africa done any good? All it’s done is double the population of poor, uneducated, malnourished people.
Have the trillions we spent in the USA to eradicate poverty done any good? All it’s done is build a huge, permanent, aggrieved victim underclass out to destroy us.
When Voodoo is the main religion, this is the result.
Playing “I’m Shipping up to Boston” with a Caribbean Twoubadou Haitian beat.
Only question is which government agency gets there first to buy their plane tickets.
These thousands of Haitian maggot prisoners are on their way here. Bidenskyyyyyyyyyy has got the RAT Welcome wagons loaded up and ready to go.
Time to buy more ammo.......,
Because you have to know they are heading here.
Correct. The entire invasion is mostly criminals.
Orders curfew....
Haitians out of prison and running wild:
Darn it all. Now we have to go inside and watch sports again. It’s getting dark out.
RE: heading here
731,000 Haitian immigrants reside in the U.S., making Haitians the 15th largest foreign-born population.
1.2 million in the U.S. of Haitian ancestry or race.
About 42% were born in the U.S.
Based on 2020 U.S. Census and MPI tabulation data.
(can’t find updated numbers)
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you
I’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you
So, let’s make the most of this beautiful day
Since we’re together, we might as well say
Would you be mine? Could you be mine?
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Won’t you please, won’t you please?
Please, won’t you be my neighbor?
——Fred Rogers
Hopefully we have thousands of them over here.
The Biden regime will welcome them at the border and give them free phones, transport, housing, healthcare, money, automobiles and potential victims.
How long before they arrive in the USA to claim their free lodging, food, money, smartphone and preloaded debit card?
They are routinely overwhelmed and outgunned corrupt."
Thank you. The old adage seems to remain true; when you subsidize something, you tend to get more, not less of it.
Meanwhile, the other half of the island of Hispanola, the Dominican Republic, is just fine.
RE: The Biden regime will welcome them at the border
If they are to become refugees, the most logical place to go to would be the country that shares the same island with them — the neighboring country of the Dominican Republic.
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