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Up to 20% of medical staff had left Haiti by the beginning of the year. [179] Even before violence escalated shutting down all but one of the capital's hospitals, Haiti had the worst conditions for childbirth in Latin America and the Caribbean, with only "war-torn countries like Sudan and Yemen" having higher mortality rates. [110]
"[T]o understand why the United States landed and has for five years maintained military forces in that country, why some three thousand Haitian men, women, and children have been shot down by American rifles and machine guns, it is necessary, among other things, to know that the National City Bank of New York is very much interested in Haiti.
Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war. The government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this conflict, [1] with gangs reportedly controlling up to 90% of the city by 2023. [37]
Haiti hasn’t had a standing army or a well-funded and robust national police force for decades. Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland ...
But for any of this to happen, the U.S. will first need to convince U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres that a formal peacekeeping mission is the way to go, and then it will have to ensure ...
By addressing the underlying causes of violence, Haiti can emerge from this current upheaval to become at long last the peaceful, competently governed republic its citizens deserve and fervently ...
The socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy prices due to the 2022 global energy crisis, as well as protests, and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water, as well as widespread acute hunger.
They are not human beings,” said a police investigator on the front line of Haiti’s arms war. “Once people want to make money, they don’t consider the impact this is going to have, how ...