Jamaica 🇯🇲, Nigeria 🇳🇬 , and Kenya 🇰🇪 are examples of black majority countries that are in pretty good shape. Too bad Haiti couldn't learn a little something.
When I went to Haiti a couple of decades ago I asked my guide why no one planted trees and he laughed. He said 'You didn't pay me to take you to a beach you paid me because I can protect you from being robbed. No one has money to protect a tree so no one plants trees here'.
@zebrapleco7895 Haiti was economically Oppressed by the French and still suffers from the reparations they had to pay. Coupled with Other European nations refusing to trade with them. Stop being ignorant and look at other factors other than "ethnic makeup"
@@zebrapleco7895 Well that's super ignorant. That's for giving everyone that idiotic comment to let everyone know your level of knowledge and intelligence. Haiti might be #1 on the list of nations abused by US and European powers, most notably France and the US. Since their independence they have been gettings sucked dry. After the slaves won against France they were forced into debt for decades to pay sums far far far in excess of their paltry GBP, as expected of a newly independent nation of former slaves. Or else face being invaded by a renewed French force. Then later the US literally stole the funds from their Central Bank. That's on top of European and US powers literally deligitimizing their status on the global stance inhibiting their ability to trade and develop their economy i.e. infrastructure , technology, finish goods, services etc. And then the destabalizing and inteference in their political system by same said powers. Even the assassins of Haiti's last president has ties to the DEA. It's sort of a running joke but when you really look into it, colonial powers and the US are at fault for much for much the issues in "developing countries". The structures, political, economic or social, that were used to colonial powers to keep colonies in check and dependent have largely stayed in place either still benefiting European powers or unfortunately adopted by unscruplous locals who used it to benefit themselves at the expense of the normal man.
Dude imagine surviving through the earthquakes and everything else up until this point. Like these poor people seemingly never get a break. Insanely heartbreaking.
@@mariowatson5376what?...the world needs repentance..the world has stolen from Haiti, the world turned their back in Haiti...this is all by design...as far as natural disasters...they happen everywhere...they are people just like all people!
The odd thing is, they are a religious group of people. The faith in God is quite strong amongst haitain people. Seems the issue is their free will, is their demise
It's reached the tipping point. No country wants to deal with Haiti because there is no way too. If you enter your entering a warzone. There is only 1 outcome. and that's the concour the nation which nobody wants todo neither the haitians so if you do win now you have a country of people who hate you. if you lose, you leave behind a country no worse then when you entered except now they hate you.
No news media, international media at all was able to get it on point as you did at least for the haiti part. I live in haiti and thats exactly how it is and what is happening. You got all the info right. Cheers to that
Does he ever mention that it’s foreign governments like the US, England, and France, why they are always collapsing? The c I a were the ones who planned the jailbreak. Released documents prove it.
@@reyioa I can’t . RUclips blocks any comments about 3 letter agencies doing a jailbreak. You can’t talk about starving children in a Middle East location either.
Actually restoring order in Haiti would be a very violent affair and I bet “the international community” would jump at the opportunity to blame whoever gives it a go for everything going forward.
Witch is why the US shouldn't do it. People want someone to help Haiti but most people are too stupid and soft hearted to know what is actually needed.
Most likely us Americans because we are closer.On one hand the people will yell at us to stay out of other people's business on the other.They will yell at us because we are not doing anything And then if we do help and then we leave whenever things fall apart again. People will blame us for that too. So our only option is to do nothing.
@@drewwar9344 That's what we get for being the 'protector of the free world' Although, Haiti, as one of our little neighbors in the Gulf, is one we have every reason to deploy troops into and help stabilize.
Haiti needs a strong passionate leader like El Salvidor's current president. To see how fast El Salvador transformed into one of the most safest countries in South America is astounding. Really hoping for a miracle at some point.
The problem is that there's no structure to begging such operation, the best hope for Haiti is outside interference, but there's no country that wants to enter a war for no benefit.
I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise on an excursion in Labadee Haiti 5 days ago. We were never told about the situation on the island. Crazy to think I was enjoying an open bar while the locals went through this. My mind is blown
Back in the day I had 2 trainees, (not at the same time) one from DR and one from PR. Both were police officers in their native countries. The PR guy told me one night, “I was talking to DR last night, he patrolled 5 miles on foot. No vehicle because they couldn’t afford one. And I thought our department was poor.” The thing I find so poignant about that conversation was the conversation I had with DR. He told me how grateful he was that he had been born in DR instead of Haiti. I’d literally known nothing about it until then, and then I realized as much as I thought I’d seen, I’d seen nothing. My heart hurts for the people that are just trying to live their lives and raise their children.
Well let me tell you.. Haiti was the richest Island who revolted against there slavemasters and won. France then made Them pay repreations or they would bring slavery back so Haiti still paying repreations. Then US invaided Haiti and together with UK, France and Germany has destroyed the country. Haiti had their own bank and currency and Gold.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the face for the Haitian Earthquake endeavors. You know.. the scandal with missing aid money makes more sense with this information. The more you know.
@EM-tx3ly Neither, just an old white guy with enough money to find a desperate single mom and pay her what to her was a ton of money but to him nothing to "use" her children how he desired. Here in the US he was considered pretty poor but he could save up The darkest side of humanity.
I live in Ecuador and this was a good summary of what has happened recently. The closure of the ITT oil wells in Yasuni Park was done via a national referendum so it seems unlikely that Noboa can keep it open and producing. President Noboa was asking the IMF for money before he even took office officially and is working hard to get new sources of income for Ecuador. He was working to get the Canadian mining industry to open new mines in Ecuador and the Arab Emirates is considering opening a regional distribution hub in Ecuador. Of course the increase in the VAT will help but that is a drop in the bucket.
This is such an amazing video series idea. I watch these updates every weekend and it gets me up to date on everything happening. I don’t like mainstream because it’s half commercials and half a call to emotions with some agenda behind it
Haiti was not the worst place on the planet. And I'm not relying on your opinion or mine but on things like in infant mortality, life expectancy, things like this. When you were young, it was certainly a very poor country with a low human development index, but it was not the worst in the world by any of these measures.
I agree. As bad as if sounds, I think the entire world should just stand back and let the Haitian people chew on themselves. It's incredible to think so, but life in Haiti will only get worse, much more worse than imaginable.
already have been for past 10 years, "were do all these guns come from" is what they say, apparently America is the only country with guns to give@@JKweez
I remember back in 2010 there was some kind of crisis in Haiti. My Dad's best friend Mike Luman owned a large portion of Aurora municipal Airport here in Illinois and put together a mission with him, his son, and a bunch of friends flew from Illinois to Haiti in their own planes full of food, water and medical supplies. In one day they flew to Haiti, landed, unloaded the planes in like an hour and turned around and flew back to Illinois in the same day and repeated this mission every day for at least a week or so. All using personal aircraft, personal donations, various food and drink donations from local food banks like salvation army, local churches, the local police and fire departments here in Aurora and surrounding suburbs west of Chicago. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, my dad and I helped them load the airplanes stage everything for each following load.
While that was nice of your dad's best friend to do such a thing to try and help, as we have seen through the years Haiti like many other African run nations are lost causes. As long as Africans try and run their own countries without any skills, little education and corrupt free individuals they will ALWAYS continue to fail.
@UzumakiNaruto_ I was in Haiti after the earthquake, and although you anecdotal summary may have merit, I was blessed with helping beautiful kind souls.
Ecuador was such an awesome country. We had our honeymoon there 15 years ago with a livaboard diving trip to the Galapagos and a two day trip into the mountains. What a shame it’s gone downhill like this.
@@lornbaker1083 do you realize this video was about Ecuador too? I don’t understand what your comment about Ecuadors proximity to Haiti had anything to do with OPs comment.
Dude doesn’t do jack shit but read from a script anymore. He has a whole team of people that do his content. He is now just a puppet or talking head at this point.
33:29 See, this tiny little edit along with the commentary is why I prefer a human touch as opposed to the AI generated images from another video of your channel(s). Small, tiny detail in a 35 minute vid, but I noticed and props to the editor who thought to find this clip and segment it into the video. Brilliantly timed / well done, Monsieur editor ^_^ ~a random canadian subscriber dude
I think all AI generated contented should have the letters 'AI' in the top left corner and embedded metadata to what generated it. Otherwise it should be illegal with penalties for those running it.
I lived in S.Florida when Haitians were coming over in boatloads. We lived on a deadend street where there were 3 small rental homes that had about 4 Haitian families each. I wish i could think of a single nice thing to say about them. The Haitian embassy sued the state who tried to protect homeowners with the "single family housing " rule, and the state lost .
In the 1980’s, I met the chief bodyguard of “Baby Doc”, the former son and ruler of Haiti. It was in Paris. He was, I think reluctantly, attending a cooking school with his wife/girlfriend. The man was enormous. He seamed like a man who could break you in half with no worry in the world. I was in the same classroom and kitchen with him and was introduced. It was truly terrifying. I’m sure he had lots of stolen money from Haiti and probably had a villa in France. He was only at the school for about a week. Everyone was happy to see him gone.
@@BuddyLee23..Funny how he is scared of a physical presence, but the ruler was afraid of being Poisoned, hence a quick course on Food Prep for the Bodyguard.
If a normal country can be equated with a server delivering your food at a restaurant, Haiti is a plate of food which was dropped, splatted on the floor and the server is now trying to use both halves of the broken plate to try and clean it back up.
To be fair, Haiti has been cycling between "on the brink of collapse" and "collapse" since it was first colonized by Europeans, and it was probably a bit of a mess before that, too.
@@MegaHzz Well, there aren't a lot of records to show how much of a mess Hispaniola was under the Taino, but I'm sure the periodic earthquakes and hurricanes had some effect.
I lived in Jamaica in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I’ve seen Jamaica rise into a star island where billions of dollars flow in through commerce and tourism. Haiti seems to be stuck in time i wish they spoke English and had some infrastructure that enables its very talented and smart citizens to thrive.
Smart? When the country in chaos, means majority of citizen are dumb, sorry but it's fact. Looks at asian countries, almost all are developed or going in right way
There was tourism before Covid, the f you mean. Not only that, but there are plenty of Francophone islands with thriving tourism. Why do you feel the need to comment about a situation you have no understanding of?
Odd that none of the aid we've sent haiti is ever audited / monitored yet we act surprised when bad people become untouchable in places that we send blank checks
They needed solid foreign investments that would have improved their economy like in Europe after WW2, not being drown it in foreign aid to the point of killing local businesses (specially local farms), that's why many African countries are still struggling to create jobs and businesses to this very day, sometimes the foreign aid for very long periods of time makes more harm than good.
The Neo-con/uni party class just has to have more wars. They can’t ever just accept that the American people don’t want our male family members to die for nothing
i don't think the us needs more than a week to clear haiti and would bring regional stability, basicly needs to do like the el salvador president otherwise you'll have a Yemen right under US.
well if the people try to flee to the USA it does become a problem, just enforce a naval blockade, don't let anyone in or out except maybe aid workers or something and just let the problem fix itself.
Pretty much. Since their independence they have been gettings sucked dry from Colonial powers. France, US, you name it. After the slaves won against France they were forced into debt for decades to pay sums far far far in excess of their paltry GBP, as expected of a newly independent nation of former slaves. Or selse face being invaded by a renewed French force. Then later the US literally stole the funds from their Central Bank. That's on top of European and US powers literally deligitimizing their status on the global stance inhibiting their ability to trade and develop their economy i.e. infrastructure , technology, finish goods, services etc. And then the destabalizing and inteference in their political system by same said powers. Even the assassins of Haiti's last president has ties to the DEA. It's sort of a running joke but when you really look into it, colonial powers and the US are at fault for much for much the issues in "developing countries". The structures, political, economic or social, that were used to colonial powers to keep colonies in check and dependent have largely stayed in place either still benefiting European powers or unfortunately adopted by unscruplous locals who used it to benefit themselves at the expense of the normal man.
@@Lelendelet’s be honest, Haiti’s problem is the Haitians. The DR is doing fine. It’s because Haitians keep putting dictators in power and can’t figure out how to not be corrupt
@@Lelende How were they forced into debt? They could have simply stopped paying. They are an independent country and they would not be the first who decided to not pay their debts.
Its interesting. Can’t say that there was anything surprising being said. Most of these things were easy to guess, but no official would confirm these. More the way it was leaked and the political ramifications can really change the direction in germany. Its definetly embarrassing
@@bobsagetthelord6621embarassing in the eyes of the rest of the world, but we Germans aren't just used to it, we are proud, the generals finally discovered WhatsApp, and wanted to use it to send classified data, instead of documents on paper or facsimile 🤷♂️
@@bobsagetthelord6621A few weeks ago I said in another comment thread that British troops are on the ground already, including special forces. I got attacked for apparently making it up despite my source being on the ground in Ukraine. Everyone knew about this before the leak.
Just think how scary these gangs would really be if any of them knew how to use a rifle. Lots of shots of un shouldered rifles being fired with out even looking down sights. Accuracy by volume I guess.
Be glad you didn't see him 12 months ago I think he was up to presenting about 12 by then, he's stopped down from about 5 of those. Now it's just a constant stream rather than the full overtaking of the net we used to joke about 😂
Simon is youtube to me. That's kinda an exaggeration but just of the top of my head i watch Brainblaze Warographics Geographics Casual criminalist Megaprojects Decoding the unknown. He used to (might still idk) host toptenz too but i dont watch that
@@TheTomconroy TopTenz, Biographics and Geographics were caught up in a little drama after the death of the actual channel owner. Simon's team has created "Places" to replace Geographics but I don't think the others have been remade. There's also a couple other side ones but they either haven't been uploading much or they fell off of the algorithm.
Lmao n9 haiti been like this since the french were there and even when they left haiti was already dead. The only difference is that the gangs issue was not this bad
The sad reality is Haiti is doomed to forever be poor. They live in one of the most earthquake prone areas in the world. Unlike Japan they don't have the funds to build earthquake safe buildins so every 20-30 years half the buildings in the nation will be destroyed. That leads to more poverty and disease.
Japan has the funds the technology the integrity and the expertise along with experience Haiti has yet to have any not to mention leaders whom truly care for their country folk
The Japanese have always built "earthquake appropriate" architecture, it didn't require modern technology. They had a highly developed pre-industrial culture before they encountered western industrialism.
@@robw7676 Yes ... Something that Haiti never was. It was an agrarian slave state that perpetuated slavery to maintain its exports. They also never had a truly functioning government that was always in a crisis.
If you ask me, I think it’s gonna take a lot more than a thousand policemen led by Kenya to restore order to Haiti. Maybe not to level of US intervention (considering how our previous ones didn’t really help in the long term), but definitely military involvement from another country.
Not going to happen. The history of Haiti and any form of military action be it from Haiti itself or from ANY foreign power has consistently proven to be an abject and colossal FAILURE!
Such is the power and desire for relevance of political opposition in Africa that your enemies would block your efforts to put a fire out even if it was them on fire.
Bold to assume they want anything beyond an island-nation of their own to make a Somalia 2.0. If they manage to gain control for any extended period of time, expect to see them prey upon boats and shipping.
First Venezuela, now Haiti. Time to start taking notes, ladies and gentlemen, because if you think it couldn’t possibly happen in your country, well, I’ve got news for you… It can.
A friend of mine has met one of the body guards who was on the previous Haitian presidents security team, he said that was a dark day when the president was assassinated, directly lead to him retiring.
It thrived for a couple of centuries for some people, generally the enslavers who became fantastically wealthy. And for the first decade after the abolition of slavery, there was a huge improvement in terms of life expectancy for the majority of the population who were now freed. And even for several decades after that, under very difficult conditions, parts of Haiti found reasonably good ways to organize the economy. But in order to gain diplomatic recognition and to be free from the threat of invasion from France and its allies, Haiti had to assume absolutely crippling debt because the French government insisted on being compensated for the value of people who had been enslaved, but then liberated.
Im Dominican and watch your videos all the from brain blaze to side projects. Thankful that you are constantly giving heavily detailed reports on the issues. I genuinely get more unbiased information about the issue from you than even from my own people. Im saddened by the tons of racist messaging in these comments and genuinely the global conversation. I implore anyone just spouting stuff to watch your historical videos on Haiti and then speak on the topic. Keep doing your thing Simon!
Keeping the military on the street is not the long term plan. Ecuador is building two super prisons to house the gangs. The construction firm that built the prison in El Salvador is doing the work.
I was in Guayaquil the day before things broke bad and as an American out of touch with anything of the sort it felt incredibly surreal to have been that close to this type of violence
Please understand, there is nothing an outsider can do to help Haiti. Anyone who tries to help will only either make things worse, or delay the violence till later; but failure is assured in both cases. The Haitians have to do it themselves.
Im not sure I could Call Simons reporting here as information but if you are interessted in news with nuance then you should check out Dan Cohen’s documentary and journalisme on this subject
Japan experienced the devastating result at the end of WWII. Japan lacks natural resources and had frequent earthquakes, also. Japan was under the American occupation for a while but Japanese people survived the war worked hard and rebuilt their country. Japanese economy grew rapidly and their living conditions improved. Japan hasn't had a demestic or foreign war since 1945. No matter how much foreign aid Haiti receives, it doesn't do any good if the nation doesn't have visions for the future. Haitians should unite under the leaders who care about their country and strive for the future of their children. Victim mentality and more violence aren't the answer to restore peace and prosperity for their country.
Good lord I cant even imagine telling my kids ''sorry kids you cant go to school today, there is a huge chance you would get shot in the gang war crossfire''.
Much more difficult. Congo is in the middle of nowhere. Very few journos want to risk going there. Used to be a nice country, spent a month walking and hitching across it.
When I first heard what was happening in Haiti, I knew it would get worse. So, I am not surprised to hear this. Yet, I am surprised that no one has addressed this issue from the connected country, Dominican Republic. This will affect them, not just by refugees, but by the treat this will post on their country when they decided to expand their territories. Why isn't the Dominican Government doing something about this?
Haiti is not falling, Haiti has been down on the ground for a very long time, but no one seems to care or want to help. The sad thing is that the ones who are ripping the country apart are also heartless Haitians. Why is it that the gangs are able to complete control like this? No other country, not even the United Nations care about Haiti. Why is this?
They WANT it to collapse. Thing is, if it comes to america via the ocean, then U.S will have the reason to destroy haiti and put the land under U.S rule.
Because they are black and have no important natural resources like oil or uranium. Countries like Mali and Burkino Faso are both Black but everyone wants to “help” or interfere in because they have important minerals.
The question no body is asking is who supplied these young men with the guns? You really think they bought them? No, just like Jamaica it is supplied to them.
@user-sj5ju4jb7t the two political parties supplies the guns in Jamaica. It’s from politicians. That’s why bob marley was influential he wanted to stop the violence
The jlp and plp supply Jamaica with guns. That what I’m trying to say. The political leader in Haiti was killed. By gangs affiliated with the other political party.
@@kobiwan8231 If you knew, why did you ask? The drug traffickers have a lot of money which actually comes from the people who are drug users. Remember to thank your local junkie.
@@mixedup2917'he's saying that governments are behind whats going on in haiti which im sure they are. the USA has a long track record of ruling central and south america with an iron fist. if theres regime change in that part of the world chances are the USA is involved in it
That stock footage of people playing Jenga totally wrong is just confusing. How did they manage to find someone who not only used both hands but just kept the block she pulled. 😂😂
Jenga rules: take out a block below the top level using one hand and stack back on the top. Winner is last one who stacks before the person who spills the tower.
The Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 has the obligation to protect its territory, manage its borders accordingly and fortify its military presence in the Haitian border regardless of what the international community might think about it.
24:33 So we can remove tariffs from Ecuador but this country will continue to punish Haiti for nothing. Hell, US "entanglement," along with France forcing Haiti to pay them reparations for the loss of slavery for decades, are the reason the country is in the condition it is in today. So IDEA, but no IDHA.
It's amazing how you have one half of an island in chaos and the other half an absolute paradise? The only difference between the 2 island halves is the ethnicity of the people. Why isn't The DR collapsing?
You have to be schizophrenic to call dominican republic paradise there still loads of issue with the Dominican republic and a lot of why haiti is like this is because of European and Americans forcing to pay huge amount of cash by gunpoint (basically robbery) and America having an occupation of the country
I don't know what island you're talking about. You mentioned absolute paradise, and no place on Earth is absolute paradise. Are you suggesting that the Dominican Republic is absolute paradise?
You might want to read about how and why Haiti got there. Hint: this is a man made disaster and it had to do with France, debt and other ways that kept Haiti poor and broke.
Honestly, when I heard there was a prison break-out, I was just surprised there was still a functioning prison in Haiti at this point
I was surprised Haiti even still exists after 2010 and the FLRN. Lol
Let’s be Frfr, Haiti may as well just be one giant ass prison at this point t
I doubt "functioning" is a likely overestimate.
Jamaica 🇯🇲, Nigeria 🇳🇬 , and Kenya 🇰🇪 are examples of black majority countries that are in pretty good shape. Too bad Haiti couldn't learn a little something.
They was eating 1 food, 3 days a week according to the Colombians guys who are accused of murderers on a Spanish tv interview
When I went to Haiti a couple of decades ago I asked my guide why no one planted trees and he laughed. He said 'You didn't pay me to take you to a beach you paid me because I can protect you from being robbed. No one has money to protect a tree so no one plants trees here'.
I'm amazed Haiti lasted this long to be honest
Wym this long? It was the top dog from 1500-1550ish …. That sugar production was what hit Europe hyped!!
Fits the pattern of nearly every other nation with that ethnic makeup.
@zebrapleco7895 Haiti was economically Oppressed by the French and still suffers from the reparations they had to pay. Coupled with Other European nations refusing to trade with them. Stop being ignorant and look at other factors other than "ethnic makeup"
@@zebrapleco7895like your mum and dad aren’t siblings, oh please
@@zebrapleco7895 Well that's super ignorant. That's for giving everyone that idiotic comment to let everyone know your level of knowledge and intelligence.
Haiti might be #1 on the list of nations abused by US and European powers, most notably France and the US. Since their independence they have been gettings sucked dry.
After the slaves won against France they were forced into debt for decades to pay sums far far far in excess of their paltry GBP, as expected of a newly independent nation of former slaves. Or else face being invaded by a renewed French force.
Then later the US literally stole the funds from their Central Bank.
That's on top of European and US powers literally deligitimizing their status on the global stance inhibiting their ability to trade and develop their economy i.e. infrastructure , technology, finish goods, services etc. And then the destabalizing and inteference in their political system by same said powers. Even the assassins of Haiti's last president has ties to the DEA.
It's sort of a running joke but when you really look into it, colonial powers and the US are at fault for much for much the issues in "developing countries". The structures, political, economic or social, that were used to colonial powers to keep colonies in check and dependent have largely stayed in place either still benefiting European powers or unfortunately adopted by unscruplous locals who used it to benefit themselves at the expense of the normal man.
Dude imagine surviving through the earthquakes and everything else up until this point. Like these poor people seemingly never get a break. Insanely heartbreaking.
They need repentance
@@mariowatson5376what?...the world needs repentance..the world has stolen from Haiti, the world turned their back in Haiti...this is all by design...as far as natural disasters...they happen everywhere...they are people just like all people!
The odd thing is, they are a religious group of people. The faith in God is quite strong amongst haitain people.
Seems the issue is their free will, is their demise
@@Jame6999they practice voodoo, so I’m not sure that really qualifies
@@Jame6999 Why is that odd? People in difficult circumstances often are quite religious. It might be the only source of hope in super dark times.
"Haiti is dying" has the same value as "there is war in the middle east".
Same as
"Gun violence in America"
"Civil rights abuse in China"
"Strike in France"
"Civil war in Africa"
The Columbian assassins were not allowed to go free😂😂😂😂😂They were made to stay in prison. They better pray BarBQ doesn't take power
For you, for Haitians this is home
what a worm u are you
Yes, however the forced stability of U.S. in Haiti is different than the same in the Middle East.
I don’t think Kenya will be going to Haiti now. They were supposed to lead a peacekeeping mission, not enter a full blown war.
We have more promblems now, like baringo county clashes, and they can't handle, how about Haiti, it's a joke
@@MAINA_THETHERE_1704 The United States is gonna have to intervene isn’t it? 😔😔😔😔
It sucks being world hegemone.
It's reached the tipping point. No country wants to deal with Haiti because there is no way too.
If you enter your entering a warzone. There is only 1 outcome. and that's the concour the nation which nobody wants todo neither the haitians so if you do win now you have a country of people who hate you. if you lose, you leave behind a country no worse then when you entered except now they hate you.
@@BlueBDAmerica delt with it greatly in the 90s . We could do it again but of course the blue hair crowd will be angry America saves black lives .
@@BlueBDmarines invaded and in 3 days the country was stabilized . And within a few months the country was completely back to normal and we left.
"he thinks of himself as a robin hood figure"... i dont think he got his name "BBQ" by being a damn good chef?!?!?!?
You'd be correct.
youd think he is good at cooking other humans
Read up on Dan Cohen’s reporting of how the US is funding the gangs. BBQ is actually one of the good guys.
You don't know
He have his name from his mother who was selling chicken on the streets. He was a police officer before
No news media, international media at all was able to get it on point as you did at least for the haiti part. I live in haiti and thats exactly how it is and what is happening. You got all the info right. Cheers to that
Please stay safe!
You have internet’s in Haiti. Bad joke. Stay safe.
U need slogans like from river to the see haiti will B free
0:05 - Chapter 1 - Haiti is falling
15:20 - Chapter 2 - Ecuador gang takeover
26:25 - Chapter 3 - Germany's biggest intelligence breach
thxu
Thank you!
Thanks man 🫡🙇
I look for you every video
Thx
"Haiti is falling" implies that Haiti had ever gotten off the ground to begin with.
All them Kangz and 0 leadership.
It got worse after the Clinton's and George sorros visited it.
Or it could imply that it was standing.
@@AbominablePanda12 looks the same as every black neighborhood in America.
That's not a very nice assumption.
Hati is *always* collapsing.
Does he ever mention that it’s foreign governments like the US, England, and France, why they are always collapsing? The c I a were the ones who planned the jailbreak. Released documents prove it.
By design!!
😅😅😅
learn about what happened in 2004 and thats the reason why haiti's always collapsing
@@reyioa I can’t . RUclips blocks any comments about 3 letter agencies doing a jailbreak. You can’t talk about starving children in a Middle East location either.
Living in Haiti right now, its total chaos in PaP.
Yea. We know.
Stay safe
Find a safe place somewhere else, be carefull out there @ndidgenous
Praying for Haiti
hope you're safe 🫂
Actually restoring order in Haiti would be a very violent affair and I bet “the international community” would jump at the opportunity to
blame whoever gives it a go for everything going forward.
Witch is why the US shouldn't do it. People want someone to help Haiti but most people are too stupid and soft hearted to know what is actually needed.
Seems to happen every time yeah.
Most likely us Americans because we are closer.On one hand the people will yell at us to stay out of other people's business on the other.They will yell at us because we are not doing anything And then if we do help and then we leave whenever things fall apart again. People will blame us for that too. So our only option is to do nothing.
@@drewwar9344 That's what we get for being the 'protector of the free world' Although, Haiti, as one of our little neighbors in the Gulf, is one we have every reason to deploy troops into and help stabilize.
Canada sending troops is the best option for Haiti
For years Haiti lived in chaos, and then everything changed when the earthquake attacked
Ya mean a hurricane? That caused mudslides and catastrophe. No earthquake I can recall.
@@VinceCobeloearthquake was many years ago but was truly horrific.
Wasn't Haiti once a sought after holiday destination? Didn't the US donated billions to Haiti?
Wait, is this a play on words for the last airbender😂
@@DeontjieNo Haiti was always a horrible shithole.
It’s a miracle Haiti lasted as long as they did. I hope Haiti and everywhere else finds peace and safety.
At this point of Haitian history. You be better off wishing to find a pot of gold next to the end of a rainbow. With a Leprechaun standing near by.
The world just needs to leave Haiti alone.This is obviously what they want. Once liberalism takes over a country there is no coming back
They are a strong people with a love of life.
A few bad apples really ruined their barrel.
Amen 🙏🏽
A place freed from slavery after a revolution, has been enslaved by dictators ever since.
Haiti needs a strong passionate leader like El Salvidor's current president. To see how fast El Salvador transformed into one of the most safest countries in South America is astounding. Really hoping for a miracle at some point.
True but what jail could you ship them too?
The UN isn't happy about El Salvador, heaven forbid criminals be treated as such.
@@madelinemardigan3386because crime was already dropping in el Salvador and he arrested people with no evidence of their crimes.
The problem is that there's no structure to begging such operation, the best hope for Haiti is outside interference, but there's no country that wants to enter a war for no benefit.
I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise on an excursion in Labadee Haiti 5 days ago. We were never told about the situation on the island. Crazy to think I was enjoying an open bar while the locals went through this. My mind is blown
ruclips.net/video/zNAk6D85QhQ/видео.htmlsi=-9mW-CUF2PP5REr6
happens to be the case in many countries including Jamaica, these Caribbean countries make their money from tourism
Labadee is a private beach owned by Royal Carribean!
Probably intentional, it's a source of income for Haiti and I'm sure the gangs know it.
Ahh the npc is very strong w this one
Back in the day I had 2 trainees, (not at the same time) one from DR and one from PR. Both were police officers in their native countries.
The PR guy told me one night, “I was talking to DR last night, he patrolled 5 miles on foot. No vehicle because they couldn’t afford one. And I thought our department was poor.”
The thing I find so poignant about that conversation was the conversation I had with DR. He told me how grateful he was that he had been born in DR instead of Haiti. I’d literally known nothing about it until then, and then I realized as much as I thought I’d seen, I’d seen nothing.
My heart hurts for the people that are just trying to live their lives and raise their children.
As long as they stay out of the USA
I would welcome them in my state.
@@ladyeowyn42 I wouldnt
The people of a nation makes it into what it is, the Haitians only have themselves to blame for the state of their country.
@@ladyeowyn42your house? Because nimby comments like yours got no we aren’t where we are today
I'm 34 years old and I'm not sure if I've ever heard of Haiti not being a complete ruin dangerous lawless country.
No doubyt. I def never heard about it for half an hour straight .. sheesh!
Haiti has been a sh*thole for decades.
It was ran by an authoritarian family for most of the 20th century and they kept crime low.
Well let me tell you..
Haiti was the richest Island who revolted against there slavemasters and won. France then made Them pay repreations or they would bring slavery back so Haiti still paying repreations. Then US invaided Haiti and together with UK, France and Germany has destroyed the country. Haiti had their own bank and currency and Gold.
I Can not believe you deleted my comment well actually I Can. Wellcome to censorship and the continuing of disinformation🤔
Note: Henry has announced he will be resigning, as of march 12 (two days after this aired)
There was a guy my dad knew who would sail to Haiti a few times a year.
Eventually we found out he was going to pay parents to abuse their children.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the face for the Haitian Earthquake endeavors. You know.. the scandal with missing aid money makes more sense with this information.
The more you know.
Your dad knew shit people.
Pay ???
Is he a trafficker or member of
As a adopted Haitian that been living in the USA, I just only feel sad for the people suffering and the trouble politicians running it 💔 😢
@EM-tx3ly Neither, just an old white guy with enough money to find a desperate single mom and pay her what to her was a ton of money but to him nothing to "use" her children how he desired.
Here in the US he was considered pretty poor but he could save up
The darkest side of humanity.
How does Haiti keep finding ways to get worse??? That takes a lot of creativity.
Mainly because they fail to govern themselves and have screwed themselves up several times.
im suprised that you are suprised, it will get much worse.
It's what a natural disaster and lack of infrastructure rebuilding can contribute to. Scary indeed.
@@exp2tr10t Japan had a Tsunami and worked together to rebuild, this is cultural 99%.
The united states and France stole all their wealth, and not like, in historic times, but very resently
I live in Ecuador and this was a good summary of what has happened recently. The closure of the ITT oil wells in Yasuni Park was done via a national referendum so it seems unlikely that Noboa can keep it open and producing. President Noboa was asking the IMF for money before he even took office officially and is working hard to get new sources of income for Ecuador. He was working to get the Canadian mining industry to open new mines in Ecuador and the Arab Emirates is considering opening a regional distribution hub in Ecuador. Of course the increase in the VAT will help but that is a drop in the bucket.
the quality here is eclipsing the network-news high water mark set last century. well done.
This is such an amazing video series idea. I watch these updates every weekend and it gets me up to date on everything happening. I don’t like mainstream because it’s half commercials and half a call to emotions with some agenda behind it
I remember as a little kid knowing haiti as the worst place on the planet and its only gotten worse...im 35 for perspective
reading "The Comedians" (1966) by Graham Greene may provide you with even more broad historical perspective...
Same.
And I'm 51.
Haiti was not the worst place on the planet. And I'm not relying on your opinion or mine but on things like in infant mortality, life expectancy, things like this. When you were young, it was certainly a very poor country with a low human development index, but it was not the worst in the world by any of these measures.
Same, and im 62.
stfu.....its a literal shit Hole @@williamwolf2844
No one should interfere in Haiti lest they want to be blamed for it in the future.
I agree. As bad as if sounds, I think the entire world should just stand back and let the Haitian people chew on themselves. It's incredible to think so, but life in Haiti will only get worse, much more worse than imaginable.
Exactly, they have a nasty habit of biting the hands that feed them. Some of the most ungrateful people.
The US will be blamed no matter what.
already have been for past 10 years, "were do all these guns come from" is what they say, apparently America is the only country with guns to give@@JKweez
@@h.r.hufnstuf4171which is false because they kidnapped and trafficked kids and woman in exchange for the guns and drugs.
My thoughts go out to the honest and innocent citizens of Haiti, i wish their lives where better.
I remember back in 2010 there was some kind of crisis in Haiti. My Dad's best friend Mike Luman owned a large portion of Aurora municipal Airport here in Illinois and put together a mission with him, his son, and a bunch of friends flew from Illinois to Haiti in their own planes full of food, water and medical supplies. In one day they flew to Haiti, landed, unloaded the planes in like an hour and turned around and flew back to Illinois in the same day and repeated this mission every day for at least a week or so. All using personal aircraft, personal donations, various food and drink donations from local food banks like salvation army, local churches, the local police and fire departments here in Aurora and surrounding suburbs west of Chicago. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, my dad and I helped them load the airplanes stage everything for each following load.
Massive earthquake
While that was nice of your dad's best friend to do such a thing to try and help, as we have seen through the years Haiti like many other African run nations are lost causes. As long as Africans try and run their own countries without any skills, little education and corrupt free individuals they will ALWAYS continue to fail.
@UzumakiNaruto_ I was in Haiti after the earthquake, and although you anecdotal summary may have merit, I was blessed with helping beautiful kind souls.
@@UzumakiNaruto_Almost like there’s a reason for not having having those problems.
Apply some logic.
Stupid to give free food and water to haiti people...leth them make farming work ..like normal people 😊
In an alternate universe somewhere, French football legend, Thierry Henry is somehow leading Haiti into a golden age
How do I get there 😅
cOLoniZaTioN BAd 🥴
In an alternate world we dont consider sportsballers to be big heroes who can lead anything.
Golden Age. Yea. What a dream.
Ecuador was such an awesome country. We had our honeymoon there 15 years ago with a livaboard diving trip to the Galapagos and a two day trip into the mountains. What a shame it’s gone downhill like this.
Ecuador is nowhere near haiti. Or the galapagos islands.
@@lornbaker1083 do you realize this video was about Ecuador too? I don’t understand what your comment about Ecuadors proximity to Haiti had anything to do with OPs comment.
Ecuador now has major drug gang provlem.
How many RUclips channels does this guy have?
Underrated comment. The only one asking the right question
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I think it's safe to say Haiti has fallen.
" Haiti has Fallen " The New Gerard Butler Movie Filmed Live in Haiti to keep film budget cost down !!!
@@secretsquirrel1534won't have to spend a lot of money on special effects, just start filming.
On a separate note. Thoroughly impressed at how many channels you have. I swear you are the busiest man on RUclips.
Unfortunately a lot of it is recycled content from what I've seen
He is pro US Empire and Imperialism! He will never mention the negative things done by the West and root causes of the Haitian problem
@joeyscreepychin1183 still impressive though. His revenue stream must be pretty go9d. Cudos to him and much success.
@@nasimwehbe8410 I'll give cudos when its a lot less recycled content.
Dude doesn’t do jack shit but read from a script anymore. He has a whole team of people that do his content. He is now just a puppet or talking head at this point.
33:29 See, this tiny little edit along with the commentary is why I prefer a human touch as opposed to the AI generated images from another video of your channel(s).
Small, tiny detail in a 35 minute vid, but I noticed and props to the editor who thought to find this clip and segment it into the video.
Brilliantly timed / well done, Monsieur editor ^_^
~a random canadian subscriber dude
I think all AI generated contented should have the letters 'AI' in the top left corner and embedded metadata to what generated it. Otherwise it should be illegal with penalties for those running it.
@@tetraquark2402Will be interesting to see how various nations structure legal stuff around AI in the coming years / decades ^_^
I thank you for these videos. I feel you yield better information on the states of the world than any news agency available.
Truth
💯
I've been to Haiti. There is no level of chaos that wouldn't be a net improvement.
Wow that's saying something 😮😮😮
Wow! What did you see?
@TheOceanLoader A people and culture fully incapable of self-governance, self-reliance, or unassisted civilization.
@TheOceanLoader RUclips has censored my response attempts twice now, so you can guess what I saw.
@@ajm2872 Oh no - so sorry to hear. Hope you are safe and well. Nothing affected you too badly
Dying!? It's been a zombie nation for decades.
Bro the guy named BBQ sounds like a nick name from fallout new vegas like Cook Cook
Theres a lot of that over there. I've heard jokes of names like Aircraftcarrier etc, its like a meme world.
I lived in S.Florida when Haitians were coming over in boatloads. We lived on a deadend street where there were 3 small rental homes that had about 4 Haitian families each. I wish i could think of a single nice thing to say about them. The Haitian embassy sued the state who tried to protect homeowners with the "single family housing " rule, and the state lost .
Thank you!!!!! Simon and everyone else helping out behind the scenes. Keep us as updated as often as possible
In the 1980’s, I met the chief bodyguard of “Baby Doc”, the former son and ruler of Haiti. It was in Paris. He was, I think reluctantly, attending a cooking school with his wife/girlfriend. The man was enormous. He seamed like a man who could break you in half with no worry in the world. I was in the same classroom and kitchen with him and was introduced. It was truly terrifying. I’m sure he had lots of stolen money from Haiti and probably had a villa in France. He was only at the school for about a week. Everyone was happy to see him gone.
😂 he was harmless under French law
How do you be the former son? Who your dad is isn't the kind of thing that changes
This is one of the best stories of regular White guy scared by enormous black guy I’ve ever heard! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@BuddyLee23..Funny how he is scared of a physical presence, but the ruler was afraid of being Poisoned, hence a quick course on Food Prep for the Bodyguard.
I love how the inmates wouldn't let the Columbians assassins out😂😂😂😂 😊
If a normal country can be equated with a server delivering your food at a restaurant, Haiti is a plate of food which was dropped, splatted on the floor and the server is now trying to use both halves of the broken plate to try and clean it back up.
There’s no wait it’s that good.
With youtube channels are like the punters that clap at the calamitous sound of dishes hitting the floortiles...
....after making a deal with Satan.
Damn straight sir 😢😢😂
How was the plate broken tho ? Oh Telly hat part tell the part where the plate was thrown around by 2 other people
Honestly have to worry for the Dominican Republic. This will inevitably spill over the border and threaten their country.
To be fair, Haiti has been cycling between "on the brink of collapse" and "collapse" since it was first colonized by Europeans, and it was probably a bit of a mess before that, too.
Typical response, blame the Europeans for everything I guess
@@MegaHzz Well, there aren't a lot of records to show how much of a mess Hispaniola was under the Taino, but I'm sure the periodic earthquakes and hurricanes had some effect.
Yeah I'm sure it was a utopia before Europeans showed up.
Should be left to the blacks. Since they have a great track record with all their other countries. Look at the congo
@@gt4666masterand South Africa, Zimbabwa.
So Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't far off with the Voodoo Boys...
The voodoo boys were invented for cyberpunk 2020. Published back in the 80s. Haiti has always been a victim of greater powers.
I lived in Jamaica in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I’ve seen Jamaica rise into a star island where billions of dollars flow in through commerce and tourism. Haiti seems to be stuck in time i wish they spoke English and had some infrastructure that enables its very talented and smart citizens to thrive.
Smart? When the country in chaos, means majority of citizen are dumb, sorry but it's fact. Looks at asian countries, almost all are developed or going in right way
There was tourism before Covid, the f you mean. Not only that, but there are plenty of Francophone islands with thriving tourism. Why do you feel the need to comment about a situation you have no understanding of?
Talented & Smart? Haiti?
Odd that none of the aid we've sent haiti is ever audited / monitored yet we act surprised when bad people become untouchable in places that we send blank checks
They needed solid foreign investments that would have improved their economy like in Europe after WW2, not being drown it in foreign aid to the point of killing local businesses (specially local farms), that's why many African countries are still struggling to create jobs and businesses to this very day, sometimes the foreign aid for very long periods of time makes more harm than good.
Our Govt is nuts if they even remotely think the U.S. wants to get involved in ANOTHER unnecessary conflict.
The Neo-con/uni party class just has to have more wars. They can’t ever just accept that the American people don’t want our male family members to die for nothing
i don't think the us needs more than a week to clear haiti and would bring regional stability, basicly needs to do like the el salvador president otherwise you'll have a Yemen right under US.
well if the people try to flee to the USA it does become a problem, just enforce a naval blockade, don't let anyone in or out except maybe aid workers or something and just let the problem fix itself.
I miss when I was a little kid and actually believed that the US wanted to help other countries
@@SpeedDaemon3Uh huh. How does the u.s. "clear" Haiti?
I think Haiti has been falling lol
since the 1800s
Or since 1492
Pretty much. Since their independence they have been gettings sucked dry from Colonial powers. France, US, you name it.
After the slaves won against France they were forced into debt for decades to pay sums far far far in excess of their paltry GBP, as expected of a newly independent nation of former slaves. Or selse face being invaded by a renewed French force.
Then later the US literally stole the funds from their Central Bank.
That's on top of European and US powers literally deligitimizing their status on the global stance inhibiting their ability to trade and develop their economy i.e. infrastructure , technology, finish goods, services etc. And then the destabalizing and inteference in their political system by same said powers. Even the assassins of Haiti's last president has ties to the DEA.
It's sort of a running joke but when you really look into it, colonial powers and the US are at fault for much for much the issues in "developing countries". The structures, political, economic or social, that were used to colonial powers to keep colonies in check and dependent have largely stayed in place either still benefiting European powers or unfortunately adopted by unscruplous locals who used it to benefit themselves at the expense of the normal man.
@luminoushd7917 that was so cringe worthy.
@@Lelendelet’s be honest, Haiti’s problem is the Haitians. The DR is doing fine. It’s because Haitians keep putting dictators in power and can’t figure out how to not be corrupt
@@Lelende How were they forced into debt? They could have simply stopped paying. They are an independent country and they would not be the first who decided to not pay their debts.
I think the German intelligence leak is the most surprising of the 3 topics.
Its interesting. Can’t say that there was anything surprising being said. Most of these things were easy to guess, but no official would confirm these.
More the way it was leaked and the political ramifications can really change the direction in germany. Its definetly embarrassing
@@bobsagetthelord6621embarassing in the eyes of the rest of the world, but we Germans aren't just used to it, we are proud, the generals finally discovered WhatsApp, and wanted to use it to send classified data, instead of documents on paper or facsimile 🤷♂️
@@bobsagetthelord6621A few weeks ago I said in another comment thread that British troops are on the ground already, including special forces. I got attacked for apparently making it up despite my source being on the ground in Ukraine. Everyone knew about this before the leak.
Germany has quite the track record when it comes to World Wars... We don't need them starting a Third.
Cause you dont know our dumb chancellor
Just subscribed.... Seems this channel is very informative and impartial.
Just think how scary these gangs would really be if any of them knew how to use a rifle. Lots of shots of un shouldered rifles being fired with out even looking down sights. Accuracy by volume I guess.
They do know.
I noticed several of the rifles in the video don't even have any sights on them.
Seriously though, this is like the fourth channel I've seen this guy on TODAY.
I kinda had that same thought at the start of the video
Simon has multiple channels.
Be glad you didn't see him 12 months ago I think he was up to presenting about 12 by then, he's stopped down from about 5 of those. Now it's just a constant stream rather than the full overtaking of the net we used to joke about 😂
Simon is youtube to me.
That's kinda an exaggeration but just of the top of my head i watch
Brainblaze
Warographics
Geographics
Casual criminalist
Megaprojects
Decoding the unknown.
He used to (might still idk) host toptenz too but i dont watch that
@@TheTomconroy TopTenz, Biographics and Geographics were caught up in a little drama after the death of the actual channel owner. Simon's team has created "Places" to replace Geographics but I don't think the others have been remade. There's also a couple other side ones but they either haven't been uploading much or they fell off of the algorithm.
Haiti went totally downhill right after the big shake in 2010.
And who was "helping" them recover? The Clinton Foundation.
No, Haiti went down since France stole from them
@@usiegalol total lack of accountability as usual. Not surprising the country is where it is currently.
@@usiegaHaiti went down hill when they supported murdering their own children over some voodoo rituals
Lmao n9 haiti been like this since the french were there and even when they left haiti was already dead. The only difference is that the gangs issue was not this bad
Thank you for the channel Simon, keep giving quality news as opposed to all the mainstream crap
The sad reality is Haiti is doomed to forever be poor. They live in one of the most earthquake prone areas in the world. Unlike Japan they don't have the funds to build earthquake safe buildins so every 20-30 years half the buildings in the nation will be destroyed.
That leads to more poverty and disease.
True
Japan has the funds the technology the integrity and the expertise along with experience
Haiti has yet to have any not to mention leaders whom truly care for their country folk
The Japanese have always built "earthquake appropriate" architecture, it didn't require modern technology. They had a highly developed pre-industrial culture before they encountered western industrialism.
@@robw7676 Yes ... Something that Haiti never was. It was an agrarian slave state that perpetuated slavery to maintain its exports. They also never had a truly functioning government that was always in a crisis.
Giving people money doesn't weaken gangs, it makes them stronger.. how have we not learned this yet?
You have. It is called revenue.
If you ask me, I think it’s gonna take a lot more than a thousand policemen led by Kenya to restore order to Haiti.
Maybe not to level of US intervention (considering how our previous ones didn’t really help in the long term), but definitely military involvement from another country.
Not going to happen. The history of Haiti and any form of military action be it from Haiti itself or from ANY foreign power has consistently proven to be an abject and colossal FAILURE!
The previous ones weren’t really there to help in the first place
Previous one wasn’t an intervention it was a takeover😂 which means they looted murdered and left
@@-nyte2063exactly but they’ll be quick to say “take accountability “😂 freaking jokesters
That Haitian prison break must have felt like the rapture for those prisoners.
Such is the power and desire for relevance of political opposition in Africa that your enemies would block your efforts to put a fire out even if it was them on fire.
I mean they enslaved themselves and still do it till This day what do you expect really.
This narrative you copy paste everywhere. Is as misguided as everything else you probably understand. @theangrypenguin3014
The biggest question I have is this: How will the gangs feel when no one wants to trade with them. This isn't a good look for Haiti
Bold to assume they want anything beyond an island-nation of their own to make a Somalia 2.0. If they manage to gain control for any extended period of time, expect to see them prey upon boats and shipping.
They would attack ships.
@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Perhaps, but then they'll be on everyones watch list
This is just the the Somali issue all over again
Black markets are always open for business
they will advance to the South Border of USA... wonder why they haven't figured it out yet
What's happening to Haiti is devastating. Truly so sad :/
First Venezuela, now Haiti.
Time to start taking notes, ladies and gentlemen, because if you think it couldn’t possibly happen in your country, well, I’ve got news for you…
It can.
Socialism sucks.
Both countries have completely different reasons for completely different crisis...
Thank God the Kangz are not in my country
A friend of mine has met one of the body guards who was on the previous Haitian presidents security team, he said that was a dark day when the president was assassinated, directly lead to him retiring.
His father was the first elected leader of Haiti. His family is beloved. This is for them.
We should all be grateful for Simon for his videos that provide all the info we need about current geopolitics.
Don't forget his excellent team of writers and researchers.
You do know he is just a paid voice actor? He has nothing to do with the research or writing.
Thankyou Simon and team for all your hard work.
Now you see why the Dominicans have built a wall.
But Biden will let them in our borders.
Yup but Haitians will stay say Dominicans are racist 🤦🏾♀️ Haiti doesn’t even have a functioning government
how many channels do you have????????
Channels pay Simon to narrate their scripts
All of them 😂
His hair off his head.
Yes
Has Haiti ever thrived?
No.
Yes in the 1800s and 1900s it was okay
They’ve always been forced to pay a massive amount of money to France making them even poorer.
@@visorij3374they had slavery in the 1800s and 1900s their own government sucked since day 1
It thrived for a couple of centuries for some people, generally the enslavers who became fantastically wealthy. And for the first decade after the abolition of slavery, there was a huge improvement in terms of life expectancy for the majority of the population who were now freed. And even for several decades after that, under very difficult conditions, parts of Haiti found reasonably good ways to organize the economy. But in order to gain diplomatic recognition and to be free from the threat of invasion from France and its allies, Haiti had to assume absolutely crippling debt because the French government insisted on being compensated for the value of people who had been enslaved, but then liberated.
Wonder if it could count as the Haitian "Storming of the Bastille"? Oof, how bad is the Haitian version of Robepierre going to be?
Very, VERY bad.
nothing short of a Hannibal Lecter probably
He’d be an improvement.
Voodoo Robepierre
Let’s just hope for Haiti’s sake this doesn’t turn into another Saigon otherwise there won’t be very many Haitians left
Was a politician wrong by calling it a s***hole?
Please add the struggles in Burma to one of your videos! Thank you!!
Im Dominican and watch your videos all the from brain blaze to side projects. Thankful that you are constantly giving heavily detailed reports on the issues. I genuinely get more unbiased information about the issue from you than even from my own people. Im saddened by the tons of racist messaging in these comments and genuinely the global conversation. I implore anyone just spouting stuff to watch your historical videos on Haiti and then speak on the topic. Keep doing your thing Simon!
Keeping the military on the street is not the long term plan. Ecuador is building two super prisons to house the gangs. The construction firm that built the prison in El Salvador is doing the work.
Colonization doesnt sound like a bad idea at this point
Nice South Park reference Simon :)
Love your work, keep it up!
I was in Guayaquil the day before things broke bad and as an American out of touch with anything of the sort it felt incredibly surreal to have been that close to this type of violence
Fools go where angels fear to tread.
Indigo Traveler on RUclips has a great series when he visited Haiti in the last few yrs. Shows the heavy situation there.
Please understand, there is nothing an outsider can do to help Haiti. Anyone who tries to help will only either make things worse, or delay the violence till later; but failure is assured in both cases. The Haitians have to do it themselves.
Every 60 seconds that passes. Haiti is falling apart
Thank you from Australia Simon, got more detail from you, than any other news source.
Cheers
Im not sure I could Call Simons reporting here as information but if you are interessted in news with nuance then you should check out Dan Cohen’s documentary and journalisme on this subject
Outstanding report on the Haitian crisis.
Japan experienced the devastating result at the end of WWII. Japan lacks natural resources and had frequent earthquakes, also. Japan was under the American occupation for a while but Japanese people survived the war worked hard and rebuilt their country. Japanese economy grew rapidly and their living conditions improved. Japan hasn't had a demestic or foreign war since 1945.
No matter how much foreign aid Haiti receives, it doesn't do any good if the nation doesn't have visions for the future. Haitians should unite under the leaders who care about their country and strive for the future of their children. Victim mentality and more violence aren't the answer to restore peace and prosperity for their country.
To fix Haiti someone would have to make it not Haiti
Good lord I cant even imagine telling my kids ''sorry kids you cant go to school today, there is a huge chance you would get shot in the gang war crossfire''.
love this series!! could you please cover Congo?
Much more difficult. Congo is in the middle of nowhere. Very few journos want to risk going there. Used to be a nice country, spent a month walking and hitching across it.
When I first heard what was happening in Haiti, I knew it would get worse. So, I am not surprised to hear this. Yet, I am surprised that no one has addressed this issue from the connected country, Dominican Republic. This will affect them, not just by refugees, but by the treat this will post on their country when they decided to expand their territories. Why isn't the Dominican Government doing something about this?
Forgot to mention that the US airlifted their embassy staff out.
did you not pay attention? This was recorded on march 6th
Also left out that they're EATING their enemies.
@@adfdasdfadfadsfareae Well that's just common knowledge at this point. That's what happens in an anarchy. Remember the liberia disaster?
How many RUclips channels have you worked for?
Who cares his content is trash
I knew he looked familiar
That "security breach" was no accident. The information put out there was all by design.
That would be amazing
Hope so because if not it was super dumb of them.
I think it rather more likely that they are just THAT incompetent.
How convenient for the leader to be out of the country - too convenient - probably in an underground cave somewhere by now!
Haiti is not falling, Haiti has been down on the ground for a very long time, but no one seems to care or want to help. The sad thing is that the ones who are ripping the country apart are also heartless Haitians. Why is it that the gangs are able to complete control like this? No other country, not even the United Nations care about Haiti. Why is this?
They WANT it to collapse. Thing is, if it comes to america via the ocean, then U.S will have the reason to destroy haiti and put the land under U.S rule.
Because they are black and have no important natural resources like oil or uranium. Countries like Mali and Burkino Faso are both Black but everyone wants to “help” or interfere in because they have important minerals.
The question no body is asking is who supplied these young men with the guns? You really think they bought them? No, just like Jamaica it is supplied to them.
@user-sj5ju4jb7t the two political parties supplies the guns in Jamaica. It’s from politicians. That’s why bob marley was influential he wanted to stop the violence
What are you trying to say ?
The jlp and plp supply Jamaica with guns. That what I’m trying to say. The political leader in Haiti was killed. By gangs affiliated with the other political party.
@@kobiwan8231 If you knew, why did you ask? The drug traffickers have a lot of money which actually comes from the people who are drug users. Remember to thank your local junkie.
@@mixedup2917'he's saying that governments are behind whats going on in haiti which im sure they are. the USA has a long track record of ruling central and south america with an iron fist. if theres regime change in that part of the world chances are the USA is involved in it
I bet if Haiti had oil, we would already be there installing a new leader
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Thanks for the coverage of lesser known world issues. I listen to each situation room episode so keep it up’
That stock footage of people playing Jenga totally wrong is just confusing. How did they manage to find someone who not only used both hands but just kept the block she pulled. 😂😂
Jenga rules: take out a block below the top level using one hand and stack back on the top. Winner is last one who stacks before the person who spills the tower.
Escape from Haiti with Russell Crowe LoL
The Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 has the obligation to protect its territory, manage its borders accordingly and fortify its military presence in the Haitian border regardless of what the international community might think about it.
24:33 So we can remove tariffs from Ecuador but this country will continue to punish Haiti for nothing. Hell, US "entanglement," along with France forcing Haiti to pay them reparations for the loss of slavery for decades, are the reason the country is in the condition it is in today. So IDEA, but no IDHA.
It's amazing how you have one half of an island in chaos and the other half an absolute paradise? The only difference between the 2 island halves is the ethnicity of the people. Why isn't The DR collapsing?
You have to be schizophrenic to call dominican republic paradise there still loads of issue with the Dominican republic and a lot of why haiti is like this is because of European and Americans forcing to pay huge amount of cash by gunpoint (basically robbery) and America having an occupation of the country
wrong @@golaxy110
I don't know what island you're talking about. You mentioned absolute paradise, and no place on Earth is absolute paradise. Are you suggesting that the Dominican Republic is absolute paradise?
You might want to read about how and why Haiti got there. Hint: this is a man made disaster and it had to do with France, debt and other ways that kept Haiti poor and broke.
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