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2022-12-06 Caribbean-Latin America

Haiti in chaos: Capital is taken over by gangs who murder and kidnap at will - with families forced to listen to hostages being gang-raped until they pay ransoms of up to $1million

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Mob Rule

Send her.

Posted by KBK 2022-12-06 00:14|| 2022-12-06 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 KBK - that's enough to make a man give up sex on a permanent basis.

Posted by Raj 2022-12-06 00:38|| ` 2022-12-06 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane

Um - exactly when did Haiti ever have a 'functioning government'? Probably before I was born.

Posted by Raj 2022-12-06 00:39|| 2022-12-06 00:39|| Front Page Top

#4 So par for the course.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-06 07:58|| 2022-12-06 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Before mine too, Raj (unless you consider the absolutely repressive regime of Papa Doc between '57 and '71 as a variant of 'functional')

History of Haiti - It reads like a very bad dystopian novel.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-12-06 08:03|| 2022-12-06 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 There definitely is such a thing as "tragic dirt."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-06 08:06|| 2022-12-06 08:06|| Front Page Top

#7 At least in Papa Doc's time there was only one gang that operated with total impunity.

Posted by Cesare 2022-12-06 08:21|| 2022-12-06 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 An early example of 'successful' decolonization.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-06 08:30|| 2022-12-06 08:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Haiti has no functioning government after last president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated, while country has also been devastated by earthquake and hurricane

Yet the Dominican Republic survives and ~~keeps sending ballplayers to MLB~~ thrives

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-06 08:51|| 2022-12-06 08:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Another Caribbean doorstep for China.

Remember?

Haiti Turmoil May Open Door for China's 'Political Interference'

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-06 09:24|| 2022-12-06 09:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Yet the Dominican Republic survives and thrives

Yes, but to be fair, that is completely the other side of the island.

Posted by SteveS 2022-12-06 09:38|| 2022-12-06 09:38|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ But it's a British Colonial stockade steeped in apartheid and abuse.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-06 09:42|| 2022-12-06 09:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Haiti has no functioning government and yet, World total of foreign aid to Haiti:
Haiti received US$13 billion in foreign aid from the international community from 2011 to 2021.[5] Despite this, living conditions remain poor.[6] According to page 35 of the Greening Aid book there are key questions that arise on where the money flows and why.

Proof that in government - you can't fix stupid!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Haiti

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-06 11:52|| 2022-12-06 11:52|| Front Page Top

#14 ...At the risk of sounding insensitive, where the hell are these people getting a million dollars?

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-12-06 12:18|| 2022-12-06 12:18|| Front Page Top

#15 I would say the United States should annex Haiti to provide some semblance of order and stability but, then, it was the French who made Haiti what it is so it should be their responsibility now. Either that or we could all step back and watch to see how much worse it can get. My guess would be that sooner or later one of the gang leaders who is bigger and badder than the rest will emerge as the new Papa Doc.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-06 13:39|| 2022-12-06 13:39|| Front Page Top

#16 ...At the risk of sounding insensitive, where the hell are these people getting a million dollars?

Here again, only my guess, but might they be the ones whose daughters are being kidnapped and raped until they pay the gangs?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-06 13:41|| 2022-12-06 13:41|| Front Page Top

#17 *Opens new container of brain bleach and pass it around*

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-12-06 23:25|| 2022-12-06 23:25|| Front Page Top

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