The U.S. Embassy in Haiti on Wednesday urged citizens in the Caribbean country to leave “as soon as possible” citing security and infrastructure challenges, as escalating violence has left thousands displaced and sent homicides soaring.
“U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible via commercial or private transport,” the embassy said in a statement, urging extreme caution.
An escalating gang turf war in Haiti has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis that has displaced around 200,000 nationwide and left some 5.2 million people - nearly half of Haiti’s population – in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.
Ehhh… It’s complicated. Pretty much every western power in the world to blame. After orchestrating one of history’s only successful slave rebellions, pretty much the entire western world took turns punishing them for it.
Slave rebellions were one of the scariest scenarios to the great powers, seeing one actually take off was terrifying to colonial powers. No one moreso than America, who then spent the next 200 years making a mess of the island. Including a 20 year occupation in the beginning of the 20th century.