It has been nearly a month since Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned under pressure from street gangs and ultimately from the United States. Since then, leaders have been putting together a plan for a transitional government. Yesterday an agreement was reached but there is likely a long road ahead to making this work. A […]
It has been more than a week since Haiti’s Prime Minister resigned in response to demands made by violent gangs. The US and Caribbean nations put together a plan to select a temporary leader until new elections could be held but meanwhile, the gangs have continued their violence in the capital. For three weeks, Haiti’s […]
CNN calls them vigilantes and militias but what they appear to be are regular people who are trying to avoid being killed and taken hostage by the country’s gangs. They call themselves bwa kale and they are a violent response to the violence and threats made by the gangs who have taken over much of […]
Baltimore, Maryland is a city with a higher per capita murder rate than Kabul and plenty of voters and elected officials have been sounding the alarm over this recently. Juvenile crime rates over the past couple of years have been increasingly worrisome, with armed auto thefts and carjackings increasing in number. Responding to the outcry, […]
Best-selling author Mitch Albom found himself trapped in Haiti when the violent gangs took over. Albom, his wife, and eight volunteers were in an orphanage unable to secure a way off the island. When I wrote about the rescue of Americans from the Have Faith Orphanage by Rep. Cory Mills, I didn’t know Albom’s involvement in […]
The single hardline revolutionary of Palestinian descent the Biden administration loved to hate and did their darnedest to shove out of power – something totally against their usual inclination to coddle and indulge authoritarian strongmen – has bested their every machination and emerged victorious. Two years ago, Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, was putting […]
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