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The U.S. Southern Command said on Sunday it was obliged to airlift non-essential personnel from the United States Embassy in Haiti, as well as send more troops to the embassy to provide security.
“This airlift of personnel into and out of the embassy is consistent with our standard practice for embassy security augmentation worldwide, and no Haitians were on board the military aircraft,” USSOUTHCOM“Our embassy remains focused on advancing U.S.
Sunday’s evacuation flight included both the German and EU ambassadors to Haiti. The situation is so dangerous that it took “several days of intensive planning and coordination on both sides of the Dominican-Haitian border” to pull it off. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry speaks during the new cabinet inauguration at the Prime Minister’s residence in Port-au-Prince on November 24, 2021. Gangs launched massive attacks against government buildings over the weekend, including at least three police stations and the unoccupied presidential residence, the National Palace. The Associated Press a civilian woman writhing in pain on the sidewalk after she was hit by a stray bullet during one of the gang attacks.
Another Port-au-Prince resident, who also did not give his name, described the massive attacks Friday. First lady Martine Moise, center, attends a memorial service for her late husband, President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 21, 2021. A convicted drug trafficker pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court Friday, March 24, 2023, to participating in the assassination of Haiti’s president in 2021.
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