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Latin American & Caribbean Studies Professor. Int’l Affairs analyst. Fluent 🇨🇺🇭🇹🇧🇷🇨🇻 Author: The Saints of Santo Domingo. Former heavyweight Boxer 🥊

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As more Saldadorean troops enter Haiti & confront the paramilitaries, it is important to understand who these paramilitary gangs are and what their purpose always was. 53% of the Viv Ansanm gang — led by Barbecue, Lamò San Jou, Ti Lapli & 22 other War Lords — are children under the age of 18. These are clips from October of 2024 when the paramilitaries burned down the South Bronx of Port-au-Prince, Solino. Contrary to U.S. & Dominican media reports, the gang’s intentions were never to invade DR. They were never a threat to the oligarchs of Haiti or the U.S. The singular purpose of the gangs was to destroy poor neighborhoods in the capital city & the #1 agricultural department, Latibonit. By turning hundreds of thousands of families into refugees, the gangs decapitated the mass movement that challenged the PHTK for power and over the stolen billions from the Petro Caribbean fund, from August 2018 until July 7th, 2021. The paramilitaries carried out their campaign of terror with U.S. weapons & were instrumental in moving large quantities of drugs across Haiti to European & U.S. markets. Now, mercenary forces led by Erik Prince, the Trump Administration & #Bukele are hunting down these gangs. Their source of weapons is the same as the proxy gang force they now confront. The question for Social Media & everyone who holds up Bukele, Trump & Prince as “Haiti’s heroes & saviors,” do you honestly think the forces responsible for this humanitarian tragedy are going to solve it? Few cared about the traumatization of the nation of over 12 million people, but who could ignore the kidnapping & murder of 4 Salvadorians paid to assist the 4th U.S. invasion of #Haiti in 100 years? 4 foreigners’ lives are worth more than millions of traumatized Haitians? Desperate, displaced families of course will initially welcome the foreign occupation & any respite from a paramilitary occupation that has stripped them of any freedom. Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth will exact revenge on anyone accused of being with the gangs, burn them & drag their bodies through the streets like trophies. Many innocent people will die too, as they have been since Prince first wantonly used drones in gang-controlled areas where civilians are forced to live. But the Haitians masses want to know: when can they go back to their homes, many of which were burned down? Who will help them rebuild their pillaged ghettos? When can they make a dignified living in their own homeland? Inflation and the devaluation of the Haitian goud cause more dehydration & hunger everyday. How does the corrupt Haitian government selling off control of customs & the border to Prince help them? The situation playing out in the #Haitian capital is complex & contradictory. Social Media has been on the side of the gangs & now, the mercenary forces. Where are the Haitian people’s voices who have survived this 8-year paramilitary/proxy/state/foreign war on their sovereignty?

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