U.S. Evacuates Haiti Embassy As Gang Violence Escalates
The embassy made the decision due to escalating gang violence near their compound and at Haiti’s primary international airport.
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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