Much respect to Jubril and the Passport Heavy team for this.
So glad to see Okap getting so much love lately. I've always loved that place.
Okap is not perfect but it is has waaayyy more potential than PauP.
R.I.P Mikaben
The Haiti Megathread
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Much respect to Jubril and the Passport Heavy team for this.
So glad to see Okap getting so much love lately. I've always loved that place.
Okap is not perfect but it is has waaayyy more potential than PauP.
R.I.P Mikaben
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Around 70% of Haitians back international force to fight gangs, survey says
Around seven in 10 people in Haiti back proposed creation of an international force to help the national police fight violence from armed gangs who have expanded their territory since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, according to a survey carried out in January.
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Around 70% of Haitians back international force to fight gangs, survey says
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Houses pack a hillside in the Jalousie district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti February 3,2023. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo
Feb 3 (Reuters) - Around seven in 10 people in Haiti back proposed creation of an international force to help the national police fight violence from armed gangs who have expanded their territory since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, according to a survey carried out in January.
Some 69% of nearly 1,330 people across Haiti said they supported an "international force" - which has been requested by the Haitian government - according to a survey from local business risk management group Agerca and consulting firm DDG.
Nearly 80%, however, said they believed Haiti's PNH national police needed international support to resolve the problem of armed gangs, most saying it should be deployed immediately.
In October, the United Nations suggested a "rapid action force" be sent to Haiti to combat escalating violence from armed gangs whose turf battles have left hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
But many have expressed skepticism, citing abuses from past missions and questioning a force backing the administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, which has been without democratically elected representatives since early January.
Most countries have been wary of sending troops, though nearby Jamaica on Tuesday said it would be willing to participate and El Salvador has offered "technical assistance".
U.N. envoy to Haiti Helen La Lime last week said she had heard caution from the United States and Canada, but "not a definite no."
"Nobody wants to repeat the mistakes of the past," she said, adding the force would work in partnership with the PNH.
More than a third of those surveyed said since 2021 they knew someone in their neighborhood, family, or workplace who had been killed. Over 70% said their movements in the capital had been limited by gang presence and 83% said they lost income.
Some 36% said they or someone they knew had since 2021 been victim of a kidnapping, while 28% said this was the case for physical assault, and 9% for sexual assault. A quarter said they had stopped social activities and a fifth said they had left their homes.
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BobbyWojak
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good discussion in the comments
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This is no different than when the same Macron demanded that African heads of state go to France and explain why they didn't want their money held hostage by France. Very similar to Trump's shythole comment.
BobbyWojak
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The treatment of workers in the DR gets swept under the rug because of the current crisis.
I came back on a trip from Punta Cana, DR and it's so sad.
My first time back on the island since I was a young kid; It's cold where I live up here so it was a nice way to break off the winter cold.
It was a nice trip, I enjoyed the beautiful beaches, the nice countryside fresh air, took an excurison out to some farms and dirt roads with country people, cattles and lush forest. ⛱
I also got to see the newest development, new housing projects, hotels and small shops forming a new prosperous economy for the region...**.all on the back of...**
Haitian men stacked by the dozens on overloaded trucks, haitian women selling cheaperies by the road and the beaches, Haitian poor folks waiting in line by the highway that one passing car might pick them up, haitian by the hundreds in rural backwaters with their children running at you to hand over money, old grmaps rushing at you to sell a bunch of junk desperate, surprised but also further in plea when they hear your creole and want you to get them out of this mess.
It's sad y'all.
Pretty much the entire economy of the Resorts, beaches, the construction, farms, all built by haitian workers lodged out like dirt class citizens, and those who talk to you will tell you despite the ''work'' permits, the police still give them problems, theyre often extradited and what not.
DR got so far because it has this dirt cheap class of labourers they can quck peg and abuse in pretty much any labour work with minimum framework and pay.
To think though that this is the same island with the same economic opporutnities; its a shame that we failed ourselves so hard we now find so many of us humiliated in this way as work, no matter its conditions is more valuable than suffering at the hands of gangsters and complete misery in our side of the island.
