US government suspends aid to Haiti, El Salvador sends troops

El Hijo de Manolo

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UNICEF press release announced by BBC, other mainstream media outlets. That said EHM, we know that what they are saying is true . What’s at issue here is how much of it is true. We don’t need UNICEF to affirm that life in Haiti is cheap and getting cheaper.
Hey if you say so, it must be. Wait, Internews just called, they said they invested big into cash and training for it to be true!
 
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I am more interested where that pinhead in the picture obtained a bullpup rifle, never mind he has little training on how to hold it.
 

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Fighting an enemy hidden in miles and miles of underground tunnels with the ability to pop up anywhere to use hit and run tactics against you ain’t easy. The Viet Cong employed the same tactic to defeat the many countries who fought against them in the Vietnam war. Hamas is still using what’s left of their tunnels to hide themselves, hostages, food, and weapons. Bomb can only do so much and the presence of hostages limited the Israeli response.
Haiti will be rebuilt before Gaza
 

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Haiti will be rebuilt before Gaza
Not under the Trump administration. Gaza is Trump’s priority not Haiti. If he can get Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia’s buy in, rebuilding Gaza will start, assuming something can be done to accommodate the Palestinians temporarily until they can return to Gaza. Hamas has to be removed and I’m sure Israel has those plans in place and would be more than happy to execute them.

The roots of the Haitian problem run deep and are centuries old. Very hard to resolve. The Palestinian problem started at the end of WW2 when the British and French displaced them from part of their homeland to create Israel. The Palestinian problem may actually be easier to resolve.

As ramesses posted, it’s all about money. No money to be made in Haiti. It’s a money pit. Lots of money to be made in Gaza if it’s turned into the resort area it once was. A strong economic engine for the area and a provider of jobs for Palestinians. Not to mention a potential Nobel Peace prize for Trump. Stranger things have happened.
 

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Hey if you say so, it must be. Wait, Internews just called, they said they invested big into cash and training for it to be true!
As the former Prince now King of England said (tongue in cheek), “If it’s in the paper, it must be true”. 😂
 

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There is quite a frenzy in some Dominican medium ever since a list of some of the Dominican journalists and heavy weights in the public opinion resulted to be getting paid from USAID money. Casals even said of a time he was offered a lot of money in cash in US dollars to stop talking about the illegal immigration from Haiti. It wasn’t they promised to pay him, they went to him with the money in envelopes put right on his laps so to speak. He says they were crisps bills with no signs of usage,

What bothers many folks is that many of these journalists had a very pro-Haitian stance. Now there is the assumption that their very pro-Haitian stance was due to conditions for keeping getting paid in thousands of US dollars per month.

They also noticing some of the things done by USAID with a humanitarian image but was, in the case of China, to infiltrate with American informants and spies. Supposedly, in the Ukraine I out 10 newspapers were supported by USAID money and with the current shutdown (temporary) they cease to operate. lol

They are linking that to how quickly certain NGO’s would create pro-Haitian protests in the DR since many of them didn’t had much difficulty securing funds from the USA.

Would be interesting to see if these NGO’s and the pro-Haitian stance of many Dominican journalists will continue now that the money they were receiving for that is no longer there.

The Trump administration probably is analyzing what amounts were going to actual humanitarian aid and what was going to push certain ideologies, many woke, around the world. The latter are leftist stuff, so most likely they will remain cut with the right wing government now in power in the country the USAID is based.