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Sounds like a veritable libertarian paradise.
Let's offer to send the magats down there to run things.
“It’s the international community that put us in this situation. For over 200 years, they haven’t given us a chance to live for ourselves,” said one man to CNN, sitting on his motorbike as he watched vehicles pass another charred body in the street.
Enslaved people in Haiti overthrew brutal French colonial rule and founded the world’s first free Black republic in 1804, only to be shunned by the international community for decades.
The history of racism and colonialism in a nutshell.
Haiti didn't finish paying off its debt to France until 1947. (The debt was sold to Citibank at some point). That debt was partly buying the freedom of the enslaved population.
It never had a chance to get off the ground.
Wasn't it well into the 90s even?
It isn't exactly the first horror stories from Haiti. Greater concern in keeping the country fed. Kenya will send their army, but first there must be a government. Not an unreasonable request.
Soon coming to a nation near you. Best realize this for the forewarning it is.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s been nearly 18 months since Prime Minister Ariel Henry first requested foreign military assistance, a period in which the gangs steadily expanded their reign of terror across an estimated 80% of the city.
Leslie Voltaire, a candidate for the transitional council, told CNN Thursday that he was frustrated with how long the political process was taking while gangs gained territory.
The reopening of Haiti’s port and airport could happen within the first 100 days, he said – a potentially long wait in a country where nearly half the population doesn’t have enough to eat, according to the World Food Programme.
Haiti’s Ministry of Communications buildings is itself overrun by refugees fleeing gang attacks – in its front office, hungry children now sit on the floor and swing on rolling desk chairs.
Security and humanitarian issues in this city are tightly intertwined; experts say that the nation’s immediate need for clean water and food mean the focus must be on bringing Port-au-Prince’s port and airport back online.
Enslaved people in Haiti overthrew brutal French colonial rule and founded the world’s first free Black republic in 1804, only to be shunned by the international community for decades.
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