The U.S. Rushes its “Gang Suppression Force” Through the UN Security Council, Despite Protests and Warnings from Russia and China - Haiti Liberte
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(Français) "There's no other crisis that’s bigger in the Western Hemisphere... than this one in Haiti,” said U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Haiti Henry Wooster in a Sep. 22, 2025 press conference in New York on the margins of the United Nations’ annual General Assembly. Washington has a lot riding on its new “Gang Suppression Force,”
  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    This is a crazy story, flying completely under the radar. So is the US just going to invade Haiti under the pretext of fighting gangs?

    Are there communists in Haiti or something? I can’t imagine the US would give a dry shit otherwise. The whole story there has been so muddled it’s impossible to tell up from down.

    • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.mlOP
      4·
      9 days ago

      The current Haitian government is a provisory council appointed by the OAS, armed with Washington-paid Kenyan police, and some of the “gangs” are demanding new elections since the president was assassinated in 2019, and also calling for a more sovereign Haiti.

      It’s a mess, but also seems inline the renewal in focus on the Caribbean. Control the Sea around Venezuela, isolate Colombia and Mexico’s East while retaking the Panama Canal and Ecuador.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    What would be a better option for an international response?

    I’m not trying to sea lion; I am genuinely interested in ways to restore order to Haiti.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      Anything not involving the US basically. If history is any example these “police actions” have a way of spiraling into full-blown protracted wars, egregious human rights abuses, and widespread death and suffering for the populations the US chooses to “liberate”