HAITI CHAOS: President Flees the Country — US Embassy Staff Evacuated — Biden Mulls Sending Troops
The U.S. Embassy in Haiti is evacuating some of its personnel from the nation’s capital as rampant gang violence intensifies.“Heightened gang violence in the neighborhood near U.S. embassy compounds and near the airport led to the State Department’s decision to arrange for the departure of additional embassy personnel,” the U.S.’s embassy, based in Port-au-Prince, said in a statement on Sunday. The embassy remains open.
The U.S. State Department is requesting that the Marine Corps deploy a security team to Haiti to help quell gang violence that is erupting across the nation’s capital, Port Au Prince, according to a defense official who spoke to the Marine Times military newspaper.
As the violence and chaos continues, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti advised all Americans to leave, and warned that it was not able to help them find private charter jet flights amid its reduction in operations.
“We have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas,” a U.S. State Dept. spokesperson told Fox News Digital it was a priority to get Americans home safely.
Yeah, right...we saw that in Afghanistan.
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