Rescuers are facing an uphill battle as Haiti spirals deeper into chaos.
earlier this month has left the state teetering on the brink of collapse, with at least 1,500 people killed so far inare taking place in a “very, very challenging environment,” Paul Doucet, a regional director at International SOS, an emergency medical and security organization that has been evacuating people from Haiti, told The Daily Beast.
The first evacuation flight out of Cap-Haitien, Haiti, landed at Miami International Airport earlier this month. Francius St. Alma of Miami was among the passengers.The U.S. government, for its part, has evacuated approximately 450 Americans from Haiti since March 17, organizing “At the moment we haven’t got to the point where we should put down our weapons,” he said. “In the days that are coming, things will get worse than they are now.”
A mans walks past a burning barricade during a protest against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince last year.International SOS, much like the U.S. government, settled on evacuation by helicopter as the safest option after considering all other routes, from ground transport to evacuation by sea. But all of the other possibilities were just too dangerous, given the current risk of roadblocks, and threats of kidnapping, assault, and carjacking.
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