Armed gangs jailbreak 4,000 inmates in Haiti after days-long gun battle with police

That place is cursed. There is no hope for that country.

I thought bush and Clinton fixed Haiti?

If you havent read or learned about the Haitian slave revolt in the 1790s it is an amazing story. 500,000 of the total island population of 550,000 at that time were slaves. The few survivors said it was like hell on earth. The torture that was inflicted on the slaves was reversed, in revenge. Dan carlin touches on it in the Human Resources episode, but there are full podcasts dedicated to it that are worth a listen if you are inclined.

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I thought bush and Clinton fixed Haiti?

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If by "fixed" you mean install puppet dictators and rob Haiti blind, then yes, you are correct.

A wise man once got yelled at for calling Haiti a shithole country.

Haiti seems like just a crazy mess. So dangerous there for outsiders.

Don't let the Clinton Foundation near them. They'll all end up dead or as sex slaves.

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I thought bush and Clinton fixed Haiti?

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No. Clinton's foundation only smuggled children out to use at their pedo parties.

In the drowsy hours of a December afternoon, eight American Marines strolled into the headquarters of Haiti’s national bank and walked out with $500,000 in gold, packed in wooden boxes.Little known history about US involvement with Haiti.

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In the drowsy hours of a December afternoon, eight American Marines strolled into the headquarters of Haiti’s national bank and walked out with $500,000 in gold, packed in wooden boxes.

They drove the loot by wagon to the shore, past American soldiers in civilian clothes who kept watch along the route. Once at the water, they loaded the boxes and sped to an awaiting gunboat.

The gold was in the vault of a Wall Street bank within days.

The gold was taken from Haiti’s national bank and deposited in a Wall Street bank within days. Can you guess which Wall Street bank?

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More from the New York Times:

The operation took place in 1914 — a precursor to the full-scale invasion of Haiti. American forces took over the country the following summer and ruled it with brute force for 19 years, one of the longest military occupations in American history. Even after the soldiers left in 1934, Haiti remained under the control of American financial officers who pulled the country’s purse strings for another 13 years.

Invading Haiti was necessary, the United States said. The country was so poor and unstable, the explanation went, that if the United States didn’t take over, some other power would — in America’s backyard, no less.

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Under heavy pressure from National City Bank, Citigroup’s predecessor, the Americans elbowed the French aside and became the dominant power in Haiti for decades to come. The United States dissolved Haiti’s parliament at gunpoint, killed thousands of people, controlled its finances for more than 30 years, shipped a big portion of its earnings to bankers in New York and left behind a country so poor that the farmers who helped generate the profits often lived on a diet “close to starvation level,” United Nations officials determined in 1949, soon after the Americans let go of the reins.

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