Author: Michael Wilner
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US fears Haiti could fall ‘at any time’ as doubts grow over Biden’s backup Kenya plan
U.S. government officials have grown alarmed that the Haiti National Police could begin to crumble within hours — and that a long-planned multinational mission led by Kenya to provide reinforcements may not be enough to save the country from a complete descent into gang control. Outgunned Haitian police have been battling a united front of…
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Haiti moves closer to total collapse and its prime minister is unable to return home
Banks and government offices in Haiti are being pillaged and burned. Police substations are falling under the control of gangs. Prisons have broken open. And neighborhoods across the nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince, are experiencing continuous gunfire. As a powerful coalition of armed gangs continues its assault in a volatile Haiti— and the political party of a…
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White House sounds alarm that Haiti is ‘rapidly deteriorating’ as gangs move on key targets
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is alarmed over what it is describing as a “rapidly deteriorating security situation” in Haiti as the country’s armed gangs broadened their attacks on critical infrastructure Sunday, launching an assault against the police academy after storming two prisons in the capital and the port the night before. The gangs have…
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Biden rejects US troop deployment to Haiti as crisis spirals
The Biden administration will not send U.S. troops to Haiti to help its national police respond to a rapidly evolving security crisis, as a united front of gang leaders has led attacks on the country’s main seaport, airports and prisons, a White House official told McClatchy. Their decision comes after a frantic 72 hours of…
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Haiti, Kenya and US make progress on deployment of armed force, but there’s no date yet
Government officials from Haiti, the United States and Kenya have wrapped up a planning conference for the deployment of a multinational security mission to help Haitian police deal with dangerous criminal gangs, but just how soon forces will arrive in the volatile Caribbean nation remains unknown. Neither U.S. nor Haitians officials provided a deployment date…
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‘No significant Venezuelan military buildup’ near Guyana, White House says
The Biden administration is playing down threats of imminent military action from Venezuela against neighboring Guyana, telling reporters Monday that recently released satellite imagery reveal “small-scale” activity in “remote locations.” The White House response comes after a Washington-based think tank released the images over the weekend, leading to concern that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro might…