Posted on Jul 11, 2018

US Embassy in Haiti requests extra security amid riots

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The approved request includes a Marine Security Guard Augmentation Unit, consisting of approximately 13 Marines, as well as other security personnel who would reinforce members of the US Marines Corps and State Department security personnel already in place.

US Embassy in Haiti requests extra security amid riots

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Posted 6 y ago

Looks like the resilience is running out...
https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/haiti-earthquake-anniversary_us_5875108de4b02b5f858b3f9c

7 Years After Haiti's Earthquake, Millions Still Need Aid

The resilience of the Haitian people has endured through years of natural disasters.

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Posted 6 y ago

What is it about these people? Sometimes countries have isolated incidents, it seems I remember bad stuff like this happening in Haiti my entire life.

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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SFC (Join to see) https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/haiti-us-occupation-hundred-year-anniversary

The Long Legacy of Occupation in Haiti

A hundred years after the U.S. occupation began, our désocupation has yet to come.

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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SFC (Join to see) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-forces-land-in-haiti

U.S. forces land in Haiti - Sep 19, 1994 - HISTORY.com

On September 19, 1994, 20,000 U.S. troops land unopposed in Haiti to oversee the country's transition to democracy. In 1991, Roman Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first freely elected leader in Haitian history, was deposed in a…

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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SFC (Join to see) "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in" Maj Gen Smedley Butler.

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel thanks for the good reads. Traveling through the area I was aware of us affecting sugar production throughout the Caribbean in the 1950's. I didn't realize it went back as far as 1900. I don't like knowing our country affected so many people in a negative way. We like to think of ourself as the white knight, it's not nice to know that we have some skeletons in the closet.

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