To the person crossing the river? No. To the reader who may care that it is the longest river in the country (because some people do care to learn about such things)? Yes.
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Haiti Confirms Hiring Mercenaries To Fight Gangs But Won't Say How Much It's Paying
(www.latintimes.com)
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Trump hits Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti with travel bans amid immigration crackdown
(www.miamiherald.com)
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Haitian Gangs Are Moving On To Take The Last Neighborhood They Don't Control In The Capital
(www.latintimes.com)
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This is a similar strategy to what France did after the Haitian revolution. They showed up with gun boats and threatened to level everything from afar unless Haiti agreed to pay 'reparations'.
It typically is.
EDIT: I do need to clarify that you can spell it both ways.
Yes, this is correct.
How about these sources who have been calling it out for a decade and a half:
"USAID has spent about $1.5 billion since the earthquake," Johnston told Goats & Soda. "Less than a penny of every dollar goes directly to a Haitian organization."
https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2012/02/26/haiti-where-is-the-money/
Paywalled, but the beginning of the article is interesting enough as far as learning about that family.
Many would agree with you.
I'm going to say that this is truly tragic, what happened to these missionaries. They stayed in spite of the dangerous conditions around them, which truly speaks to their selflessness. They didn't go to Haiti to make a political statement or try to make money/profit off of the people. They went because they believed in helping others.
There's no direct link between the two countries. It's been argued that Kenya wants to increase its presence on the global stage and sees a peacekeeping/law enforcement mission in Haiti as an opportunity to showcase its capabilities in that space.
To be fair, that statement can apply to a number of places around the world (including in the US).
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Fair question. The answer is a resounding no, as we can judge based on the actions of these groups towards the people in the areas that they have taken over.
A civil war would be a group with a clear socio-political motive/grievance against another (or the government).
In this case, we have individuals who are committing atrocities against innocent people. As you may or may not be aware, Jimmy "Barbecue" literally spearheaded a jailbreak from the country's most notorious prison. Many of those are now part of his ans other gangs (or 'organizations', if one would prefer).
Looking closer, the people who are victims of these 'organizations', as well as the Haitian government, are both calling the groups 'Bandits', which, when translated from Kreyol and used in this context, means gangs.
I'll be one of the first people to critically examine whether or not western media or governments slap a negative label on people due to their being black (because let's face it, it has happened plenty of times before...particularly to Haitian people). But sadly, the label of 'gangs' is wholly appropriate in this case.