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#HAITI: The PRC looking for advantage in the Caribbean . Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

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#HAITI: The PRC looking for advantage in the Caribbean . Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://en.mercopress.com/2022/12/07/dominica-s-pm-retains-power-after-snap-elections#google_vignette

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0:00.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

80 right now is in extreme distress because the US is obliged, recommended all US citizens leave.

0:40.0

The US has dispatched a group of Marines to guard what remains of the embassy staff.

0:46.4

Other countries are dealing in the same fashion with the emergency.

0:50.1

The airport has been closed, maybe it's open again, the port has been closed, maybe it's open again.

0:53.0

The port has been closed, maybe it's open again.

0:56.0

There are gangs said to be dominating the conversation following 5,000 inmates escaping from the prison in an organized affair.

1:04.9

The Prime Minister was out of the country.

1:06.5

I believe he was in Africa negotiating for a Kenyan military presence to bring order to Port of Prince the capital.

1:15.0

However, that did not permit the Prime Minister to get back inside the country.

1:20.0

He may have resigned, he may not have resigned. That's what we come to. So I welcome

1:25.4

Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

1:29.0

Gregory, I've been reading about Haiti, but not this century in the 20th century the US deployed

1:34.8

Marines from 1915 to 1934 three Haitian presidents and the Wikipedia is

1:42.1

dryly declaring victory at the close of 1934.

1:46.0

But here we are a hundred years from the photograph that I saw,

1:49.5

Marines rushing up a hillside with rifles in their hands.

1:53.0

A hundred years later and Haiti has not repaired itself.

1:58.0

What drives the disorder?

1:59.0

Good evening to you, Gregory.

2:01.0

Good evening, John.

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