https://www.washingtonexaminer...d-gangs-storm-jails/

Hait’s government declared a state of emergency Sunday during a weekend of extreme violence, including the storming of the country’s two biggest prisons, allowing thousands of inmates to escape.

Police and prison staff were killed and injured in the “criminal acts,” the country’s government said in its announcement, which also included a nighttime curfew until Wednesday.

Nearly 4,000 prisoners escaped one prison, and a prison containing 1,400 prisoners was also overrun, causing “massive population displacements and consisting in particular of kidnappings and assassinations of peaceful citizens, violence against women and children, ransacking and theft of public and private property,” the government said.

Gangs have coordinated their attacks in recent days, targeting the country’s international airport, the national soccer stadium, as well as police stations, where four officers were killed on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

As the violence escalated over the weekend, citizens hid on streets laced with debris and burning tires from gunfights between gang members and police officers. While pleading for foreign support, Prime Minister Ariel Henry has said elections need to be held soon in his country in order to bring stability.

The Biden administration has reportedly said it’s been monitoring the country’s bleak situation with grave concern. A National Security Council official reiterated the U.S.’s support for democracy and fair elections.

At this point I think it is safe to call it a shit hole country.

The Biden administration has reportedly been dimly aware of the Haiti situation, as they stare blankly at the United State’s essentially non existent southern border, then going to get some ice cream while preparing to lecture the public about the evils of anthropogenic caused climate change.

Air dropping munitions may be the best option to help, if we could get them scattered enough to prevent the hoarding by the gangs.

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Air dropping munitions may be the best option ...

B-1, B-2, B-52, F15, F16, and F/A18 can air drop 500, 1,000, and 2,000 lb. general purpose gravity bombs fuzed for instantaneous detonation.

Those would be hard for gangs to horde, and frankly in the aftermath, who'd notice?

Haiti has been a shit hole country for about as long as i can remember. No surprise here.

Let's just call it a penal colony.
Let the Dominican Republic put barbed wire across that part of the island with armed security and go on with life. Make that border the backstop for a shooting range.
It's been a disaster all my life and no amount of money or effort has improved things.

Didn't the Clinton foundation do a lot to help out Haiti in the past? I'm sure if they personally went down there they could engage all parties in productive discussions to bring about a resolution to the conflict and begin the process of rebuilding.

Look for these cretin to begin appearing at the southern border in the not too distant future. More criminal element intentionally delivered into the US by the criminal Biden administration and it’s puppeteers.

escaped and heading to a US border soon!

Like the Venezuelan fighting age males doing their thing now here in our big cities.

Decades ago, the royalty of Monaco vacationed in Haiti. My uncle frequently flew their charters and has some really flattering stories of the Prince and Princess. Anyhow, what a stark contrast between then and now.

Hôtel Oloffson was half-way decent back in '91. I probably wouldn't recommend the chicken though.

There is no oil in Haiti, so no one cares what happens there.

Haiti, Mexico, El Salvador and much of countries south of us are a disaster with drug gangs/ cartels controlling the governments. All of this a direct result of the demand by America's meth, fentanyl addicts. The addicts, and their criminal conduct, have ruined families, made neighborhoods unsafe and caused a variety of problems. US does no where enough to end the problem. The mollycoddling of criminals who use and distribute the drugs has enhanced this sad state of affairs. Un-secured border is a significant part of the problem. With the invasion from our southern border and actual "war on drugs" would be a good start. Use our intelligence community to locate the trafficers and use drones to take them out. Mexico will scream and we should let them do that.
Locally, the addicts need to be punished, the "it's a disease is bullshit." No other life-threatening disease can go into remission by stopping a bad habit. News is full of articles of progressive Oregon decriminalizing hard drugs and the result is a disaster. Tragic what has occurred with the flood of dope into the US.

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There is no oil in Haiti, so no one cares what happens there.

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Yep plus they no longer manufacture our major league baseballs!

I hope the Dominicans are increasing their security so the BS doesn't spill over. Dominicans have a lot more to lose than the Haitians. Tourism and tobacco are big industry in the DR.

Its amazing how on one island, one-side, while still impoverished, has managed to maintain a sense of culture, economy and general social norms, while the other side of the island is complete chaos and every turn they've taken to change things descends into open warfare, rampant crime, social breakdown and economic collapse.

You see the border? What a joke!

^yep, probably the clearest boarder from space of any 2 countries ( in daylight anyway). Haitens cut everything to make charcoal rather than harvest its fruit. Dominicans took care of Haitens during Trujillo's Parsley Massacre. Haitens would be asked to say parsley (perijil). It they couldn't, the got the machete or tire necklace. Very interesting history between the two with a few American occupations thrown in.

We cannot help but get involved. If I remember correctly the marines stayed from 1915 until early 1934. More recently we sent marines to help with earthquake relief. Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. I do not think there is much we can do to help.