US State Department orders departure of non-emergency personnel from Haiti
US State Department orders departure of non-emergency personnel from Haiti
The US State Department on Thursday ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel from Haiti as the security situation in the country deteriorates.
The US State Department on Thursday ordered the departure of non-emergency personnel from Haiti as the security situation in the country deteriorates.
Expected responses:
- This is because the US (or the West) hasn't done enough in Haiti.
- This is because the US (or the West) has done too much in Haiti.
I mean, yeah.
The west did too much evil and not enough good, that’s how that works sometimes.
I don't think Haiti can be just blamed on the West. The stablest it's been during its entire history was when it was a French colony with monstrous slavery practices and when it was under American occupation. For a decade or two, they got some decent leaders, but since then, it's been several decades of robbers and despots, all pulled from the people of Haiti, none of whom were Western puppets.
Oh, sure, if the US and France had treated Haiti better, that would have helped. But the West didn't cause the current problems of Haiti. They're domestic.
No matter how much aid is pumped into Haiti, you can't solve the problem of a country which has degenerated so far that it is essentially a nation of gangs and bandits.
I've asked Haitian emigres about it. They don't have hope. What they've told me is that there isn't any hope, that the country is doomed and hardly even a country any more.
I don't know what the solution is, if there even is one.
This conflict hasn't gotten much attention in the press - thanks to OP for bringing it forward. Here's an Al Jazeera article from May that explains the conflict in more detail than the summations available from the western press.
The Department of State warned in a statement of a high threat of violent crime and kidnapping throughout the city. It added that the US government’s capacity to provide emergency services to US citizens in Haiti is severely constrained.
This wouldn't have happened if Wyclef Jean had been elected.
I don't think he would take the job? He knows if he was elected today, he'd be assassinated tomorrow, buried the day after that.
If he was elected. If? He was elected.
I'm wondering how Royal Caribbean is handling the situation. Did they halt trips to their "private island" there? Cause it's really just a peninsula with a not-so-high fence.
Are they even still using that spot? Cause they have their own actual private island now.