{"id":2197064,"date":"2024-03-11T22:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haiti-descends-into-chaos-as-our-borders-remain-wide-open\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:21:23","slug":"haiti-descends-into-chaos-as-our-borders-remain-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haiti-descends-into-chaos-as-our-borders-remain-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti in Chaos, Borders Wide Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhaiti-descends-into-chaos-as-our-borders-remain-wide-open%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2197064&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The \u200bDire Situation\u200b in Haiti: A Country\u200b in Crisis<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The news out of Haiti the past\u200c few \u200dweeks has not been very good. This \u2062should come as no great\u2063 surprise, as the news out of Haiti has\u2064 not been very good for \u2064the past 200 years\u200b or so. It is,\u200d of course, one of the most miserable\u2062 and destitute \u2063places in the\u2064 world: 60%\u2062 of the country lives below the poverty \u200cline. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2021-on-track-to-surpass-2020-as-nations-deadliest-year\/\" title=\"2021 on Track to Surpass 2020 as Nation\u2019s Deadliest Year\">average life expectancy<\/a> is \u2063under 65. \u2062I could go on listing\u2064 depressing statistics, but that\u2019s probably not \u200bnecessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And yet somehow, recently, life in Haiti\u2062 has gotten even worse. The situation\u2064 has sunk below Haiti\u2019s already extremely \u200clow baseline. If you lived \u200bin\u2064 the country, you would right now be pining for the old days when you were merely miserable, starving, and destitute. That was\u200d far better\u200d than what\u2019s happening now.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s happening now is that the Haitian \u200dgovernment, to the extent that it ever existed, has collapsed. Violent gangs \u200chave taken \u200dover the country and are prowling the streets \u200bexecuting people at random. The Washington \u2064Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/03\/09\/haiti-corpses-gangs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">describes the scene<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a ride \u200bthrough the gang-controlled streets of Haiti\u2019s capital on\u200d Friday, \u2064past an improvised barricade, the motorcycle taxi reached a crossroad. First came the smell \u2014 of something burning. Then, the sight: a corpse, charred\u200b black, lying in\u2063 the middle\u200c of street,\u2062 its bones and\u2063 feet\u2063 sticking out of the \u2062pile of ash. The night before, Jimmy Boursiquot, a carpenter \u2062who \u200dlives nearby, heard two gunshots. \u2063Peering carefully out his window, checking \u2062his \u2063watch \u2014 it was 8:24 p.m. \u2014 he\u200b saw two men drive away, leaving the body \u200dbehind, not far\u2062 from a university administration office and\u200c one of Haiti\u2019s largest telecommunications \u200bcompanies. A few \u2063hours later, he said, the men returned and\u200b burned the remains. The\u200b streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the \u2063stench of the dead.\u2064 It\u2019s a grisly new marker of the violence and dysfunction in\u2062 this beleaguered Caribbean\u2064 nation of \u200c11\u2064 million\u200c people. In the absence of a functioning state, violent armed gangs have taken control of more than 80 percent of the capital, the United Nations estimates. Gunfire crackles at all \u2062hours.\u2062 Residents \u200cwho dare \u2063leave\u200b their homes\u200c stumble\u2064 across bodies that have been \u2064left where they fell. Port-au-Prince\u200c reached a high of \u200b92 \u2063degrees on Friday. The smell of\u200b decaying corpses, human \u200brights activists say, has driven \u2063some people from their homes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a terrible picture. \u200cAnd it only gets worse, the more you look. Consider the guy who \u200bhas \u2063now\u200d seized\u2064 control of \u2063the country\u200d \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ecuador-armed-conflict-president-declares-internal-armed-conflict-as-violence-rocks-country\/\" title=\"Ecuador in turmoil: President declares 'internal armed conflict' amidst violent unrest\">notorious\u200c gang leader<\/a> going by\u200c the moniker \u201cBarbecue\u201d \u2014 who has \u200dlaunched a war \u2062against the remnants of the Haitian government while attacking prisons and freeing thousands of violent criminals in order to then\u200d recruit them\u2063 into\u200c his \u200bgang. \u200bAnd\u2062 if you\u2019re assuming\u200b that there must be some horrific reason why the Haitian warlord has been\u2062 nicknamed \u201cBarbecue,\u201d you\u2019re\u2064 right. It\u2019s\u2062 exactly \u2063what you think.\u2063 Reportedly, he earned the name due to his habit of \u200csetting\u200c people on \u2063fire.\u200b In fact, \u2064Barbecue has\u2063 been basically the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-failure-of-epic-proportions-inside-the-european-unions-failed-vaccine-rollout\/\" title=\"\u2018A Failure Of Epic Proportions\u2019: Inside The European Union\u2019s Failed Vaccine Rollout\">de facto leader<\/a> of Haiti for a while now. This is\u2064 in spite of the \u200dfact that, nearly a year and a half ago, the UN leveled sanctions\u2062 on Barbecue.\u2063 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As NBC News reported \u2064at \u200bthe time, it \u2062was\u2062 a move that was supposed to bring about \u201cmore peaceful days\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, \u200cshockingly, that\u200d didn\u2019t work \u2063out. The sternly\u200d worded letters to \u200dthe third world gang leader named Barbecue somehow\u200b didn\u2019t\u2064 have\u2064 any noticeable effect. Barbecue didn\u2019t \u200blisten to \u2062the UN press conferences and read their\u2062 letters and say, \u201cGee, you know what? These folks are right. I \u2064should stop brutalizing innocent \u200cpeople.\u201d That was not \u2064his response, which no doubt came as \u2064a\u200c shock to the UN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now things have gotten so bad that, according \u200dto reports circulating all over social media, \u200dthe violent \u2062gangs terrorizing Haiti have\u2062 even resorted to cannibalism.\u200d That\u2019s the thing about Haiti. If it\u200c has proven anything over the\u200c past \u200ccouple \u200bof centuries, \u2064it\u2019s \u200dthat a bad situation can always get worse, and then the worse situation can get even worse than that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately for \u2064us, here in the United States, Haiti\u2063 is a\u200c violent, war-torn failed state that happens \u2063to sit not very far from our own\u200d borders. \u200bWhich means that we have already \u2064been\u2064 taking in thousands of illegal Haitian\u200c migrants every year, and \u2063those numbers \u200care \u200bonly going to go up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How many\u200b of\u2063 the illegal Haitian migrants are members of the brutal gangs terrorizing \u2064their country? How many are escaped prisoners? Now we must even apparently ask: how \u2063many\u200c are cannibals? \u200dThese are questions that the Biden Administration certainly won\u2019t\u200c concern itself with, and hasn\u2019t concerned itself with. We will \u2062be called to open our\u200d arms to the downtrodden Haitians, even if that means our arms will be chopped off and eaten for breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that\u2019s \u200cnot the point we\u2019re\u200c focusing on\u200d right \u200bnow. As important as the\u2063 point is. Instead,\u2063 recent events in \u2063Haiti \u200chave prompted \u2064a bit\u2063 of a trip\u2063 down memory lane \u200cfor some \u2063conservatives\u200b on social media, who have reminded us about one of\u2063 the\u200b many frivolous, \u200dmedia-invented \u2064controversies of\u2062 the first Trump Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You may recall \u2062that, \u2063way back in 2018, the Left became\u2062 outraged and deeply offended when it was\u2064 reported that President\u2063 Trump had referred to Haiti as a \u201cs***hole\u201d \u2014 or \u2063craphole, as I will call it. According to reports at the time, Trump referred to Haiti and other third \u200bworld countries as \u2062crapholes during a discussion on\u2062 immigration.\u200b It\u2064 was one of the \u200bmany times when Trump reportedly said something that every normal American either has said, or would\u2062 say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Certainly,\u200d no normal person, if they heard someone in \u2064their everyday life call Haiti a crap hole, would respond with \u200bshock and\u2064 horror. \u201cHow\u2063 could you say \u2064that\u2062 about Haiti?! It\u2019s a wonderful \u2062place!\u201d That\u2019s not how any normal person would respond. But the\u2064 media is not comprised\u200c of normal\u200b people which is\u2063 why there \u200dwas a lengthy outrage \u2062cycle which \u200bwas \u200dover the top\u200b and histrionic even by the Left\u2019s current standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The media\u200c proceeded to spend several days defending \u2063the beauty and majesty\u200d of the great nation of \u2063Haiti. There were\u2062 many headlines like this\u2064 from \u200bMother Jones: \u201cDespite It All, Haiti Is Still\u200d Not \u200ba Craphole.\u201d \u200dAnd this from the Washington Post: \u2062\u201cThis is how ignorant you have\u200d to be to call Haiti a \u2018Craphole.\u2019\u201d By the way, \u2062the title of the Washington Post article I read at the \u200dstart of the monologue is: \u201cHaitians shot dead \u200bin street and\u2062 there\u2019s no one to take the\u2064 corpses away.\u201d \u2062What a difference a few years makes. I wonder: can we\u200b call \u200bHaiti a\u2064 craphole now, or would that still be \u201cignorant\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But back to 2018, where this became a subject of discussion and condemnation on the \u200blate night alleged comedy shows as well. Here\u200c was\u200d Stephen Colbert registering his objections:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. Amen. Donald Trump isn\u2019t\u200d the\u2064 president of Haiti. Instead the de\u200b facto president of Haiti is \u2062a genocidal warlord named Barbecue. And he\u2019s so much better than Donald Trump. After all,\u200c Donald Trump will use vulgar language that hurts your feelings.\u200d Barbecue will hack you into\u2064 pieces and throw your mangled body into \u2063a bonfire. \u2064Which, I\u2019m sure we can all agree, is \u2064greatly preferable to having \u2064our feelings hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But \u2064Colbert wasn\u2019t the \u2063only late \u200dnight host sticking \u200cup for Haiti.\u2062 Conan O\u2019Brien was on the case as well:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Absolutely. Lovely \u2064people. Even the cannibals.\u2064 They \u200dare \u200cthe \u2064loveliest \u200ccannibals\u200b the world has\u2062 ever seen.\u2063 And Conan \u2063didn\u2019t stop \u200bthere. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He then embarked on\u200b a campaign\u200c to defend Haiti\u2019s reputation. It was a \u200ccampaign \u2062that even\u200c had its own \u200dmerchandise:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as a\u2063 general\u2062 rule here, if you can \u201cmake a\u200d difference\u201d for a country by\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matthew-perry-selling-t-shirts-that-promote-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Matthew Perry Selling T-Shirts That Promote COVID-19 Vaccine\">selling t-shirts<\/a>, that\u2019s a pretty good indication that\u200c it\u2064 is not, by any \u2064reasonable metric, a great country. A second \u200cgeneral rule is this: if a country is a failed state stricken \u2063by mass poverty and run by criminal gangs led by a guy named \u2064Barbecue, it is not a great country. It \u2063is not a great country now. And it wasn\u2019t back then. Despite \u200dthe claims\u2063 of leftists\u200c who are so determined to oppose Donald Trump on every single point that they were even baited into pretending that Haiti \u200cis \u200ba\u2064 utopian paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dream is that, \u200dif\u2064 Trump wins in \u20642024, the first thing he\u2019ll do is declare that it\u2019s not \u200ba\u2063 good idea to get into a rocket ship \u200band\u200d fly directly into the Sun, so that Stephen Colbert will \u2063try to prove him wrong on that\u200d point too. \u201cOh yeah?\u2062 You \u200cthink the \u2062Sun isn\u2019t a\u200d good place to visit? At least Donald Trump isn\u2019t president of the Sun,\u201d Colbert will declare moments before\u200d being incinerated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not to belabor a point that \u200bnormal people don\u2019t need explained in\u2062 the\u200c first place, but, no, Haiti is not a great \u2062country. The word \u201cgreat\u201d in this\u200c context may have some ambiguity to \u2062it \u2014\u2062 people can define great in different ways \u2014\u2064 but at\u200d the most basic level a great country \u2063is\u200c one where its people are\u200d generally able to thrive and prosper. \u201cGreat\u201d\u200c can mean more than that, but it must mean at least that. It is\u2063 incoherent to describe a\u200c country where almost nobody prospers as \u2064\u201cgreat.\u201d It is much more coherent \u2064to describe such a country as a craphole.\u200d Indeed, you can usually detect the craphole countries, and distinguish them\u2064 from\u200b the great\u200d countries, because \u200bpeople\u200c from the craphole countries are always trying \u2062to get \u2062into the \u2064great\u200c countries. It \u200cnever goes\u2062 the other way around. \u2063There has never been a flood of illegal migrants from the United States going into\u2064 Haiti.\u2063 The\u2064 flood\u2063 has always gone the other way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And of course that brings us back to \u2063the most important point in all \u2062of \u2064this. \u2063The end result, the self-fulfilling prophesy we might say, which is that America becomes less great \u200cthe \u200bmore that it allows unchecked\u2062 immigration from the \u2064very not-great countries. We are not\u200b a craphole like Haiti. But import enough of\u2063 Haiti into this country, and we might \u200beventually get \u2063there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then we will be the utopia that Stephen Colbert and Conan\u200b O\u2019Brien dream of. Then maybe they\u2019ll wear \u201cAmerica \u200cis Great\u2063 Already\u201d hats. And walk proudly down\u2062 the street\u200b in that attire. Before they are descended upon by the cannibal\u2062 hordes and promptly consumed. That\u2019s what greatness is to them, apparently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has the collapse of Haiti&#8217;s government\u200c and the rise of violent gangs impacted the country and its people?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Convince\u200d us\u200c all\u200b of the utter brilliance and beauty\u2064 of self-immolation.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2063 let&#8217;s not get \u200btoo sidetracked.\u2064 The point\u200b of this\u2064 article \u2064is not to rehash\u2063 the absurd reactions \u200dof \u2062the left to Trump&#8217;s comments about Haiti. Rather, it is to \u2063shed light on the dire situation\u200d that the country finds itself\u2064 in.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti has long been plagued by poverty, corruption, and violence. But in recent weeks, the situation has reached catastrophic\u200b levels. \u200cThe collapse of the already feeble government has paved the way for violent gangs \u200bto take control of the country. They roam the \u200bstreets with \u200dimpunity, executing\u200b people \u2062at random.\u2062 The stench of decaying corpses permeates the air,\u200d and the city of Port-au-Prince has become \u200ba warzone.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most terrifying \u200cfigures to \u200bemerge \u200dfrom this chaos is a gang leader \u200bknown \u2064as \u2062&#8221;Barbecue.&#8221; This \u2064ruthless warlord has\u200c waged war \u2064against what remains of the Haitian government and has even attacked prisons\u200c to release thousands of violent criminals. He has earned his \u2062nickname through his fondness for setting people on fire. And despite\u2062 the UN&#8217;s attempt to level \u2064sanctions against him, Barbecue continues to reign over Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst\u2064 this\u2064 nightmare, reports have emerged of cannibalism among\u200b the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-decries-proposed-22-percent-budget-cut-says-china-not-dialing-back\/\" title=\"FBI Director Decries Proposed 22 Percent Budget Cut, Says China \u2018Not Dialing Back\u2019\">violent gangs terrorizing<\/a> the country. It is a horrifying turn of events, yet in the \u2064twisted reality of Haiti, \u2063it is another \u200cexample of how things can always get worse.<\/p>\n<p>The implications of Haiti&#8217;s crisis\u200c extend beyond\u2063 its borders. The United \u2063States, in particular,\u2063 has been\u2064 grappling with the\u200c influx of illegal\u200d Haitian migrants, and those numbers are expected to \u2063rise. There is a pressing concern\u2064 about how\u200c many \u2064of these migrants are members of \u200bthe brutal gangs or escaped\u200d prisoners. And now, we may \u200beven need to ask\u2063 how \u2062many are cannibals.\u2062 These are\u200d questions that the Biden\u2064 Administration\u2064 seems unwilling \u200cto address.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth reflecting\u200c on the media&#8217;s reaction to Trump&#8217;s \u200bcomments about Haiti. At \u2063the time, they staunchly \u2063defended the country, asserting its beauty and\u2064 dismissing\u200c any criticism. Yet now, as \u2062the\u200b reality of Haiti&#8217;s dire situation unfolds, silence prevails. The\u2063 media&#8217;s hypocrisy is\u2064 on \u2064full display.<\/p>\n<p>The dire situation in Haiti demands attention and action. It is a \u2063country teetering on the edge \u2062of collapse, with its people living\u2064 in constant fear and misery. The international community \u2064must step up and \u200cprovide aid and \u2063support to \u200balleviate the suffering of the \u2064Haitian people.\u2063 This \u2062crisis\u200d cannot be ignored any longer.<\/p>\n<p>As for Haiti&#8217;s \u2063reputation, it is time to face reality.\u200c It is not a great\u200d country.\u2062 It is a country in crisis,\u200b a country desperately in \u2064need of assistance. The truth may be \u2064uncomfortable, but it is necessary if we want to\u2063 help the Haitian people rise above their current dire circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti&#8217;s recent news has been consistently bleak, which is unsurprising given its history of 200 years of hardship. 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