PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons.
The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site.
Associated Press journalists saw an armored truck on the tarmac shooting at gangs to try and prevent them from entering airport grounds as scores of employees and other workers fled from whizzing bullets.
It wasn’t immediately clear as of late Monday whether the attack, which was the biggest one in Haiti’s history involving the airport, was successful.
Last week, the airport was struck briefly by bullets amid ongoing gang attacks, but gangs did not enter the airport nor seize control of it.
The attack occurred just hours after authorities in Haiti ordered a nighttime curfew following violence in which armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend.
Meh, Jovenel Moïse’s Government was arguably illegal before he was assassinated. It doesn’t matter anyway because these gangs were running rampant WHILE he was still President so his death didn’t have a damn thing to do with it.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/07/1013879000/even-before-jovenel-moises-assassination-haiti-was-in-crisis
The clear relation between the US and the assassination is not really mentioned there, though some past imperialism has
When Clinton and Bush are on the case of “restoring order” we can rest assured that no sketchy business took place.
This article gives some background on the assasination
Former Ambassador on Haitian President in March: “Put Him Aside” and Embrace “Prime Minister Option”
I’m countering the false narrative that this is happening because of the assassination of Jovenel Moïse. It clearly isn’t.
That doesn’t make the US blameless it just means the previously stated cause isn’t true.
The gangs certainly aren’t all Moïse’s fault. But America meddling in Haiti for over so long, backing very corrupt politicians and staging coups certainly hasn’t helped to stabilize the country. That power vacuum is why these armed gangs are able to exist.