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A recent report on the situation in Haiti, where there is intense gang violence, found that sexual violence is severely underreported. The report stated that gangs in the Caribbean country…

A fight evacuating 80 Americans from Haiti landed in Miami on Thursday, the second State Department-sponsored fight to South Florida this week as gang violence continues to ravage the Caribbean country. The State Department has urged all Americans to leave Haiti, evacuating the U.S. Embassy of non-essential personnel earlier this month. The capital of Port-au-Prince…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said he may send Haitian migrants who land in his state to Martha’s Vineyard. “We do have our transport program also that’s going to be operational. So Haitians land in the Florida Keys, their next stop very well may be Martha’s Vineyard,” he said in an interview Tuesday with podcast host Dana…

A group of Florida Republicans is asking President Biden to allow the Navy to conduct maritime interdictions and interceptions of migrants fleeing from Haiti amid the unfolding chaos in the country. Florida Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz, Gus Biliarakis, Anna Paulina Luna and Daniel Webster all signed the letter sent to Biden calling on him to declare an…

Author Mitch Albom and seven other Americans were transported out of Haiti on Monday, as the U.S. government instructs all nonessential citizens in the country to depart because of widespread street violence and political unrest. Albom stated that Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) aided him, his wife, and eight volunteers in leaving Albom’s Have Faith Haiti orphanage…

The U.S. military announced on Sunday that it had transported forces to enhance security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and facilitate the departure of nonessential personnel.

It’s been a little over a year since the earthquake that caused so much damage and cost so much lives, and people are starting to wonder what the situation is like in Haiti; or actually, not so many people are wondering about that. United Nation’s special envoy, former Canadian Governor-General Michaelle Jean sums it up […]

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with it’s dazzling 70% unemployment rate and more than 3 quarters of the people living in extreme poverty.  To top it off, water, what you need the most for survival, is polluted. The World Bank pretty much summed it up in a few words: Haiti has […]