Haiti collapsing: 1.3 million displaced, famine looms as international mission fails

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Haiti’s crisis has reached catastrophic levels. Gang violence has displaced 1.3 million people, a record high, while over 5,600 were killed in 2024 alone. The Kenya-led UN security mission, deployed a year ago, remains paralyzed by funding shortages and logistical failures.   #Haiti #HumanitarianCrisis #GangViolence #UNFail #KenyaMission #Famine #ForcedDisplacement #HaitiCantWait #SolidarityWithHaiti #teleSUR  These and more stories now! 🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00I'd really say right now that it's Eric Prince versus Barbecue, the former executive of Black

00:06Rock against the paramilitary gang leader, Jimmy Chirisier, with the Haitian people trapped in

00:14the middle. The Haitian people are truly before two occupations. That's what I continue to see,

00:19whether I'm in the south of the country, the north of the country, the outskirts of

00:22the capital, which is in the center of the country. Eric Prince continues to have a drone war,

00:28and supposedly the drone war is on these gangs, but every gang member that might be killed is

00:33usually 100 to 1,000 everyday Haitians who are displaced. So the idea of a second militarized

00:40occupation, basically it's U.S. guns for hire coming in, whether it's in the form of private

00:47mercenaries like Eric Prince or Marco Rubio, which has now floated the idea of the Organization of

00:52American States intervening, the same way they did in the Dominican Republic in 1965, to turn back

00:59that revolution on April 28, 1965. Whatever combination of government forces, of private

01:05forces, this is not a good thing for the Haitian people. Of course, there's already the Kenyan

01:10soldiers, the Salvadorian soldiers. These are on, they're on the payroll of the U.S., first under Biden,

01:16now under Trump and Marco Rubio. So it's very interesting. You have the indirect occupation

01:22through the gangs, which have now cleared out. We're talking about mass displacement, 1.3 million

01:28people, according to the latest studies by the United Nations and these other world health

01:33organizations, 1.3 million people displaced. And now you have these private security forces coming in,

01:40which are only going to create more displacement and more war. And Jimmy Shrede has said, well,

01:44if they can get drones, with all of the money that we have, from the cocaine dealing and the drug

01:49dealing, the kidnapping of Haitians, they have their own criminal economy, they're going to get

01:55their own drones and try to fight back against the Haitian national police, which are working with

02:01the forces that I mentioned. So it's really a difficult situation. The Haitians talk about how

02:06this is the David versus the army of Goliath, and they're just trying to survive. They don't remember

02:12the last time that they've been able to live. So much of what I'm saying comes directly from the

02:16Haitian leaders, many of whom are sitting with me behind me. The thing is that because of the

02:22language, it's a lot easier for me to translate these ideas.

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