RE: Haiti imploding10 Mar 2024 14:54
Long article:
https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2024/03/10/haiti-burning-inside-the-collapse-of-a-nation-as-gangs-take-control.html
The situation is desperate and getting worse hour by hour; these last few paragraphs from the article are a warning to anyone with an interest in the region (or thinking a holiday there might be a good idea):
'As horrific as the suffering has already been for Haitians, a complete vacuum of governance opens the gates to even more unspeakable degradations. Public services would inevitably collapse amid the security vacuum, furthering the spread of pestilence like cholera and disease pandemics with no functioning hospitals or sanitation.
Food insecurity, already endemic, would become outright famine as traditional distribution lines are cut off by warring gangs exercising localised dominance over territory. Populations in gang-controlled zones would likely be starved into complete fealty amid humanitarian shortages.
Law and order could devolve entirely to the martial codes of whichever criminal syndicate was locally dominant. Their foot soldiers, many former street children forged into ruthless killers, would likely employ rape and torture as enforcement tools on a systematic basis.
With gangs entrenched as rulers, the exploitation of Haiti's future generations could become an entrenched practice, with children pressed into service as ammunition couriers or re-emerging as child soldier cadres enforcing orders as young as six or seven years old.
The island itself could become a permanent security black hole attracting a continual stream of opportunists, terror proxies, and international criminal franchises looking to establish forward bases.
Flush with cash from illicit trade rackets, the new gang oligarchy could conceivably leverage modern accessories like drones and cyber warfare as offensive capabilities, turning Haiti into a vast criminal superstate with the Caribbean as its empire.'
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