Haiti / Violence: In the Quartier Martissant, the bandits continue to impose their law.
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Contrary to the information conveyed particularly through social networks, the United States has no intention of deploying troops in Haiti as part of the efforts to free the 16 American missionaries and a Canadian kidnapped on October 16 by the powerful “400” gang Mawozo ”, in Ganthier, a border town between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Contacted on this subject by ZoomHaitiNews, the spokesperson for the American Defense Department, Lieutenant-Colonel Ken Hoffman, denied all information suggesting that American soldiers would already be on Haitian soil.
On October 19, the head of the American diploma, Antony Blinken had promised that the United States “will do everything possible” to free the missionaries.
“We are relentlessly focused on this issue. We are doing all we can to help resolve the situation, ”Blinken said, adding that an FBI team was working on the case.
Asked about the efforts of the US government to free the missionaries kidnapped by the 400 Mawozo, the spokesperson for the US Department of Defense did not want to comment.
The “400 Mawozo” gang, which kidnapped the sixteen American nationals and one Canadian, including five children, is demanding a ransom of $ 17 million at the rate of $ 1 million per hostage.