Haiti - Page 4

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry survived an assassination attempt by unidentified gunmen on Saturday during an official event commemorating the nation’s independence in the northern Haitian city of Gonaives, Henry’s office told the Associated Press on Monday.

The Haitian 400 Mawozo gang has released the last 12 Christian missionary hostages just a little over two months after their kidnapping. 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A truck carrying gasoline exploded in northern Haiti, killing more than 50 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said Tuesday.

The Port-au-Prince international jazz festival, traditionally held in late January, has been postponed indefinitely due to gang violence that has plagued the Haitian capital for months, event organizers said Monday.

Turkish authorities detained Samir Handal, a “person of great interest” for his alleged connection to the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, on Sunday at Istanbul Airport, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reported Tuesday.

The U.S. government on Thursday urged American citizens to leave Haiti, warning of the deteriorating security situation and severe fuel shortages.

“The blood is on this administration’s hands,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) said of what he described as “an invasion” of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border in an interview on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson.

Haiti’s acting prime minister, Ariel Henry, was forced to flee an official government event commemorating one of Haiti’s founding fathers on Sunday after a local gang leader seized control of the ceremony, Britain’s Independent newspaper reported Tuesday.

The criminal gang that abducted a group of 17 North American Christian missionaries in Haiti this weekend has demanded $1 million each for their release.

A group of 17 Christian missionaries including children was kidnapped late Saturday by an armed gang near Haiti’s Port-au-Prince, a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident has claimed.

Mexico’s government has agreed to slow and regulate the flow of migrants heading to the U.S. border, a migration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) told Breitbart News.

Penniless migrants deported to Haiti told the Washington Post that President Joe Biden had invited them — and then suddenly rejected them after they spent their money and risked their lives to reach the Del Rio landing in Texas.

President Joe Biden’s immigration authorities have repatriated over 5,000 Haitian migrants aboard 50 removal flights since September 19, a United Nations entity revealed Thursday.

Democrats are undermining the Border Patrol’s morale with disingenuous and fraudulent narratives of “racism” relating to border security, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Those who watched the Biden administration’s destruction of our southern border earlier this year were appalled by the images of lawlessness, overcrowding and mismanagement.

The president continues taking a lower public profile, refusing to take questions from the press on the host of issues facing his presidency.

President Joe Biden’s administration intends to nearly double deportation flights to Haiti to six or seven by Wednesday.

Harris referred to recent tragedies in Haiti, including recent natural disasters and the assassination of the Haitian president.

Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that he was “horrified” by recent images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian migrants along the Rio Grande River.

In is unclear what Biden was referring to specifically, but the comment was made in reaction to a question about latest surge of migrants at the Southern border.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) stated that “hiding behind a health order about COVID” to deport Haitian migrants at the border “is completely unacceptable.” And “the COVID situation in Haiti is very dire.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said that the situation on the border with large amounts of Haitian migrants “is the result of the circumstances in Haiti. It’s not as a result of our southern

A public prosecutor in Haiti on Tuesday sought charges against the country’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, in connection with the July assassination of late Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, prompting Henry to fire the prosecutor.

A major earthquake hit the western portion of Haiti on Saturday, which sent shockwaves across the Caribbean, Reuters reported.

Colombia and Panama agreed to limit the flow of U.S.-bound migrants from various continents transiting through their territory to 650 per day.

Americans’ wages are rising because of the labor shortage, but President Joe Biden’s homeland defense chief announced July 30 that he will provide work permits to another 100,000 Haitian migrants.

Desperate Cubans and Haitians who try to land on Americas’ beaches will be forced back to another country while officials consider their asylum pleas, homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate hearing on July 27.

President Joe Biden invited a lobbying firm executive with ties to Haiti who has not formally worked on Cuba issues for decades to join Cuban celebrities and businesspeople for a Zoom call on protests in the communist nation Tuesday.

The Miami Herald on Sunday reported that Haitian President Jovenel Moise placed frantic calls to the National Police ten minutes before he was gunned down by a commando squad in his home, but neither the police nor the president’s own security detail answered.

Some Colombian nationals arrested for suspected involvement in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise this month received U.S. government-funded military training, Voice of America reported on Friday.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told foreign nationals that they must not attempt to illegally enter the United States by sea but did not urge them to stop illegally crossing the United States-Mexico border. 

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin will not participate in the upcoming debate by the Virginia Bar Association due to the moderator’s past donations history.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that one of the suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was a “confidential source” to the agency, Breitbart News has learned.

A former police officer turned one of Haiti’s most powerful gang bosses, Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, accused an “international conspiracy against the Haitian people” this weekend of resulting in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in his home last week.

Haitian police on Thursday arrested 11 suspects believed to be involved in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday for forcibly entering the grounds of the Taiwan Embassy in Haiti, Taiwan News reported.

Police in Haiti said on Friday that most members of the “commando squad” sent to assassinate President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday have been killed or taken into custody.