Page 11 - Guy Philippe News Today

Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the day, the world has been left to wonder whether the country will fully descend into anarchy or […]

Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the day, the world has been left to wonder whether the country will fully descend into anarchy or whether some semblance of order will be restored. What is going on in Haiti? Haiti hasn’t had a standing army or a well-funded and robust national police force for...

As Haitian gang violence runs rampant, the U.S. military airlifted personnel in and out of the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Southern Command reported on Sunday at the request of the U.S. State Department.

What was once a simmering crisis has erupted into full-blown chaos

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The embassy made the decision due to escalating gang violence near their compound and at Haiti’s primary international airport.

The world has been left to wonder whether Haiti will fully descend into anarchy or whether some semblance of order will be restored.

Guy Philippe, who helped lead a 2004 coup in Haiti and returned to the Caribbean island last year after serving a prison sentence in the U.S., said Friday he wants to be president. He also demanded that the current prime minister step down as gang violence and protests threaten the country's stability.

Former coup leader Guy Philippe spent six years in a U.S. prison for money laundering. Now he says he wants to be president.

Large-scale gang assault on multiple government buildings in capital reported as violence causes political crisis to spiral out of control