Local November 26, 2024 | 11:18 am

Haitian gangs bolstered by foreign support and funding

Santo Domingo.- The rise of Haitian gangs began between 2018 and 2019 amid anti-neoliberal protests, particularly against rising fuel prices, according to sociologist and historian Lautaro Rivara. Speaking on the program El Día, Rivara explained that criminal groups gained significant territorial control during this period, bolstered by foreign involvement, including U.S. marines, mercenaries, and operatives from countries like Serbia who introduced advanced weaponry and technology.

Rivara noted that these external forces facilitated the organization and empowerment of gangs, uniting previously antagonistic groups under centralized leadership. He emphasized that the firearms used by Haitian gangs are exclusively U.S.-made, entering Haiti through ports in Florida. Today, gangs control 80-85% of Haitian territory, including much of Port-au-Prince, creating a severe crisis. Rivara characterized this as a paramilitary phenomenon, an instrument for territorial control rarely seen to this extent in the region.

To address the crisis, Rivara advocates for internal solutions focused on reestablishing democratic legitimacy through elections and combating gangs with national resources. He emphasized that sustainable progress requires reliance on Haitian-led initiatives rather than external interventions.

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Paul Tierney
November 26, 2024 11:41 am

Lautaro Rivara, are you grasping at straws? Are there really US Marines bolstering the gangs? Any subversive foreign involvement, if any, in Haiti is by Russian and Iranian terrorist proxies to meant divide the western powers, a lame attempt by them to drain some western precious resources away from the Eastern Europe and Middle East.

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josh
November 26, 2024 11:56 am
Reply to  Paul Tierney

Please, do not talk when you have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about… You will avoid saying nonsense like this

Paul Tierney
November 26, 2024 12:38 pm
Reply to  josh

The Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, has written, “Iran and Russia perceive Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as a fertile ground for exploiting popular resentment vis-à-vis the United States and the “collective West,”. Noting my statement “foreign involvement, if any, in Haiti”, could be part of supposed exploitation. So, this institution CSIS is “saying nonsense” too?

Lautaro Rivara is an author who writes for the leftist media of “People’s Dispatch” is fanning resentment against the Marines. The Marines in Haiti service security for the US Embassy only.

Last edited 13 days ago by Paul Tierney
josh
November 26, 2024 2:52 pm
Reply to  Paul Tierney

The more you speak, the more you show everybody here how low your IQ level and knowledge is… If I were you, I will keep a low profile, you are just embarassing yourself

Dominican Dan
November 26, 2024 12:43 pm
Reply to  Paul Tierney

If you knew a bit more of the history, you could get a lot closer to the truth. Just find out what countries had/have an interest in Haiti not to be a successful independent country. Find out the countries that placed the heaviest payment for “freedom” in the known history of the world. I dare you. 😉

Jason
November 27, 2024 8:32 am
Reply to  Dominican Dan

Dios mio. I agree with Paul. Don’t go in to the centuries of Haiti’s past. The article is about foriegn support of Haiti’s gangs that were formed in “2018, 2019”. To point a finger at the U.S. Marines as supporters of the current gangs is ridiculous.
And EXTREMELY strong support of your “Russian and Iranian” claims too, Paul. To lash out at his comment as being “low I.Q.” is behavior best kept on the grade school playground.
But we’re all guilty of commenting on the writing of the worst written news source in the world. Remember that article about 2000 Russians flying home ???? ? No mention as to why the event occurred….????