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  Korea is extremely corrupt…
context: Spirals towards? It’s a bit late for that with gangs controlling the streets and police afraid to challenge them. >
  
  Is there even a police force, when there is no state or government to pay their salaries? >
  
  Ah, you see they just avoid that salary sillyness by extorting people on the street for pay or by getting paid by gangs >
  
  So it sounds like they are just now another gang rather than being actual police. >
  
  Oh yeah no the “police” there are police in name only. >
  
  So what does that mean for Sting and The Police? >
  
  Sting n' the Gang! >
  
  Kool has left the chat >
  
  Another country hitting the dust with no functioning government.  I wonder how neighboring Dominican Republic is going to handle this situation. >
  
  Dominican here, there are currently approximately 10,000 soldier in our border right now. >
  
  I've been to the DR before, how the fuck is it so much more put together than Haiti? >
  
  This is a red herring. Hati has been a failed state since day one and it has nothing to do with debt from France and everything to do with the people of Haiti. 
  Let's not forget that the Haitians immediately killed all whites, natives and mulattos after their revolution. Then killed their own leaders, causing Haiti to devolve into civil war. Once that was resolved the first thing Haiti did was invade the Dominican Republic, and when they tried to commit genocide there, the Haitians were defeated.
  Haiti hasn't had a stable government in it's history. >
  
  So, basically, you are saying Haitians are their own worst enemy? >
  
  Always have been. Read the history of the island. It's fucking nightmare fuel. Especially that early history that defines a nation. 1800-1830ish. >
  
  Yes, especially pre revolution. >
  
  It was far worse post revolution. >
  
  ....again. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The last 10 remaining senators in Haiti's parliament have officially left office, leaving the country without a single democratically elected government official.
  Haiti - which is currently engulfed in gang violence and the worst malnutrition crisis in decades - now officially has no functioning parliament as the senators were the last of 30 to remain in office after successive failed efforts to hold elections.
  At a summit in Mexico City on Tuesday Joe Biden was expected to lobby Justin Trudeau for Canada to lead an international security force - in part to help stem the flow of Haitian refugees reaching the US. Activists in Haiti have warned that any foreign force would be the latest in a long history of miscalculated foreign intervention attempts in the Caribbean.
  
  
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  Then “activists” should fucking do something >
  
  This whole "activists say" things is so dumb. Literally anyone can say they're an activist, they don't have to be elected by anyone or have any legitimacy at all. And usually they're gonna come from the wealthiest most educated segment cause that way journalists don't have to know another language. >
  
  Uh, we had a slight government malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? >
  
  Aren't you a little short for an NGO? >
  
  Isn’t this the second for third time Haiti has become a failed state in the last 20 years? >
  
  Yes it's a conga line of failed states. Haitian corruption makes Russia look like Chuckie Cheese >
  
  Never underestimate the corruption of a Chuckie Cheese. >
  
  Shit’s embedded into the carpets and every pore of plastic surfaces in that place.
  It’s like someone took the balls in a McDonalds ball playpen and used them to build everything made of plastic.
  And then they took all of the lost and found clothes at an elementary school, and made threads out of them without washing, and then made the carpet out of the resulting lint. >
  
  Haiti is a sad story, really. Feel sorry for their ordinary citizens who probably don't want any part of this. >
  
  Posting about it even vaguely on Reddit is probably really stupid. Never know who is reading. >
  
  There is no way any criminal in Haiti reading this could possibly glean any identifying info from this comment. 
  "Somewhere in the country a person is going to be paid some money at some unknown future date" is not actionable. >
  
  Dude has pictures of his license plate, a very identifiable classic vehicle and location posts all over that thing. I could find out where he lives in 3 minutes >
  
  Fair enough, I didn't do much digging. That's way too much personal info and a lawyer should probably know better. I should have checked more before being cheeky. >
  
  
  At a summit in Mexico City on Tuesday Joe Biden was expected to lobby Justin Trudeau for Canada to lead an international security force – in part to help stem the flow of Haitian refugees reaching the US.
  
  Why not?
  
  Activists in Haiti have warned that any foreign force would be the latest in a long history of miscalculated foreign intervention attempts in the Caribbean.
  
  How could it get worse? >
  
  Yes I was curious on that point. How would they propose the crisis be resolved? >
  
  (They don’t have one) >
  
  Haiti seems like it's constantly spiraling towards anarchy >
  
  There was a time when Haiti was the first nation of freed slaves (they violently rebelled and drove out their French, white landowners).
  Haiti was on shaky ground for a while, nobody would trade with them, because of the stigma I guess. It was the early 1800s, you see. Finally, France agreed to trade with them for basically the worst war reparations agreement until the Versailles treaty. And this burden was imposed on a small agrarian island nation, not an industrial and cultural juggernaut!
  With the Monroe Doctrine the US took a greater interest in the affairs of its neighbors. The US invaded Haiti during WW1 because a New York bank literally asked the President to do it. 
  There's an awful lot I'm glossing over, like one Dominican Republic dictators purge of Haitians from his country (the share a land border). Haitians deserve reparations and all the levers of power are turned against it in my small opinion. >
  
  South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world in 1960. South Korea was poorer than Haiti in 1960. source Today South Korea is a developed country, one of the wealthiest countries on Earth.  Haiti's poverty is due to the corruption and incompetence of the Haitian government over the past 60 years.