'They fed him his own ears': Top Republican shares horrifying stories of gang rule in Haiti
Walls full of bullet holes and police in "full armor" were among the sights that greeted a group of U.S. House lawmakers who recently traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a city that has been ravaged by gang rule since the July 2021 assassination of its former president."The gangs will essentially block the streets with rubble, with debris, they'll dig giant ditches in the road, and so these military and police units can't traverse," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital.
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Walls full of bullet holes and police in "full armor" were among the sights that greeted a group of U.S. House lawmakers who recently traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a city that has been ravaged by gang rule since the July 2021 assassination of its former president."The gangs will essentially block the streets with rubble, with debris, they'll dig giant ditches in the road, and so these military and police units can't traverse," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. "Some of these areas are like Afghanistan, and it is probably the poorest place I've ever been through in my life."Mast led a group of bipartisan members of Congress on a trip to Venezuela and Haiti recently, which he said was the first congressional delegation in either country in a decade.In Haiti, they were hosted by the country's prime minister, whose palace "a year ago, would have been a war zone," Mast said. "They have been actively working to take back land across the breadth of Port-au-Prince."REPUBLICAN REP MARÍA ELVIRA SALAZAR DECLARES, 'AFTER CUBA, NICARAGUA IS NEXT'But while he saw signs of slow improvement thanks to an international coalition of forces as well as a U.S.
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- Walls full of bullet holes and police in "full armor" were among the sights that greeted a group of U.S. House lawmakers who recently traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a city that has been ravaged by gang rule since the July 2021 assassination of its former president."The gangs will essentially block the streets with rubble, with debris, they'll dig giant ditches in the road, and so these military and police units can't traverse," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital.
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