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US Reinforces Haiti Embassy, Evacuates Some Staff In Overnight Airlift Mission

Posted by EU Times on Mar 11th, 2024 // No Comment

America could be on the verge of losing another embassy on President Biden’s watch.

Haiti is quickly accelerating into greater chaos and violence by the day. The US military was forced this weekend to fly in reinforcements to the US embassy in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, where the area outside the embassy has been transformed into a warzone.

The late-night operation also included emergency evacuations for non-essential embassy personnel:

“The 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,” US Southern Command wrote in a statement, as quoted by the newspaper Miami Herald.

The late-night operation also included emergency evacuations for non-essential embassy personnel.

Haitian authorities began a state of emergency last Sunday and extended it on Thursday as fierce battles continue across Port-au-Prince.

The US embassy wrote on X that it will “remain open” despite “heightened gang violence in the neighborhood near US embassy compounds and near the airport.”

Haiti is “on the cusp of even greater chaos and violence,” campaign group Human Rights Watch said last week, adding the political and economic crisis is driving a major humanitarian emergency.

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