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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Hunger in Haiti reaches famine levels as gangs squeeze life out of the capital and beyond
By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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OssanAmerica
Haiti has always been a failed state. I was there in the 1960s, Baby Doc's glittering palace contrasted sharply to all the kids who were barefoot.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You don't like government and infrastructure, though. Just everyone for themselves.
stormcrow
It’s a terrible shame that food can’t reach these people without military support. Haiti has become a failed state like Somalia.
Sven Asai
Maybe they just only should consider changing their mindsets a little bit and doing something else and useful, for example building safer and higher housings instead of gang violence and producing some daily food themselves instead of waiting for it freely delivered by NPOs. I mean, if they have money for weapons they could instead have built houses a bit above sea levels or could have bought some agricultural tools, and instead of sending their kids into the gangs they could have educated them a little less violence oriented and probably a few kids would even have learned a bit more than average and could have developed some Haitian products to sell globally. If nobody so far has told them such strange ideas, well, now I have. For the future, if they ever or still want any...
bass4funk
And the French couldn’t care less. There is just no way you can build a functioning government and society with very little infrastructure, not to mention, they don’t know anything about Law and order.