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#NewWorldReport: Haiti burns again. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

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#NewWorldReport: Haiti burns again. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haiti-gang-violence-renders-thousands-homeless-2024-03-05/

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelor and the news from Haiti is chaotic.

0:09.7

The Prime Minister has not yet returned to the country. He is now in Puerto Rico. The gangs,

0:16.8

there are several major gangs, but what I've seen on video provided by Reuters, the very brave

0:22.1

journalists who are walking those streets, is that gang leaders

0:26.4

in full body armor are boasting of their ambitions surrounded by what appeared to be teenage boys with brand new automatic

0:36.8

weapons hanging over their shoulders and ammunition pouches around their

0:41.6

waist otherwise dressed in pick up basketball, garb, whatever, the streets

0:47.8

of Haiti.

0:49.2

The American embassy has warned all American citizens to leave Haiti.

0:54.7

At this point, there is doubt about the Kenya police force continuing because there's pressure back home in Kenya about the risk that are in

1:06.9

Nairobi about the risks that are being taken.

1:09.7

Professor Haiti has been in decline for many years.

1:14.0

It's not going to be disrupted in any fashion from its chaos by any amount of military

1:21.4

intervention.

1:22.4

I was reviewing photographs from the

1:25.6

20th century about Haiti and I found one that didn't have an automatic explanation.

1:30.8

It was clearly military personnel deployed to Board of Prince and the date was

1:36.2

1920 and it could have been 2024. It changed the uniforms, put color in it as opposed to black and white, the same story.

1:45.0

Right now, is there any thinking about a remedy for what appears to be

1:51.0

a Hollywood apocalypse going on in Port of France.

1:55.0

You make a great point in mentioning the 1915 to 1934 U.S. occupation of Haiti John,

2:01.0

as well as, you know, U. know US involvement when things got chaotic back in in

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