Guatemala–Haiti relations

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Guatemala – Haiti relations
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Bilateral relations between Guatemala and Haiti were established in 1948. Guatemala maintains a diplomatic consulate in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince. [1] [2] Haiti maintains a diplomatic consulate in the Guatemalan capital city of Guatemala City. [3] [4] [5]

Military and humanitarian actions

On 10 October 2021, 100 Haitians were rescued from a shipping container on the side of a road in Guatemala. [6]

On 4 and 5 January 2025, the Armed Forces of Guatemala sent 150 troops along with the El Salvadoran Armed Forces to combat Haiti's escalating gang war of its worsening crisis. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Armed Forces of Haiti</span> Combined military forces of Haiti

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">France–Haiti relations</span> Bilateral relations

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Foreign relations of Haiti</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Haiti–Israel relations</span> Bilateral relations

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Haiti–Mexico relations</span> Bilateral relations

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">El Salvador–India relations</span> Bilateral relations

El Salvador and India have maintained diplomatic relations since 1979. El Salvador maintains an embassy in New Delhi and an honorary consulate in Bangalore. The Embassy of India in Guatemala is jointly accredited to El Salvador. India also maintains an honorary consulate in San Salvador.

Events in the year 2022 in Haiti.

The socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy prices due to the 2022 global energy crisis, as well as protests, and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water, as well as widespread acute hunger. It is a continuation of instability and protests that began in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gang war in Haiti</span> Civil conflict over control of Port-au-Prince

Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war. The government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this conflict, with gangs reportedly controlling up to 90% of the city by 2023. In response to the escalating gang fighting, an armed vigilante movement, known as bwa kale, also emerged, with the purpose of fighting the gangs. On 2 October 2023, United Nations Security Council Resolution 2699 was approved, authorizing a Kenya-led "multinational security support mission" to Haiti. Until 2024, the war was between two major groups and their allies: the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies and the G-Pep. However, in February 2024 the two rival gangs formed a coalition opposing the government and the UN mission.

The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti is an international police and military force approved by the United Nations Security Council on 2 October 2023 to assist the government of Haiti in restoring law and order amid worsening civil strife and gang violence since 2018.

Events in the year 2024 in Haiti. The gangs proceeded to wipe out the Haitian government to take control of major cities throughout the country, a group of people who attempt to escape Haiti after an insurrectionist criminal movement continues to commit several crimes and murder nationwide which spreads rapidly across Haiti, causing thousands and then millions of Haitians dying of starvation. In the city of Port-au-Prince, nearly 100% of the capital are under gang control with various turf wars, as the city become deserted which inflicted Haiti's population and became more dangerous than ever. After Haiti was ravaged by lawless thugs, as it was heading into the new year of 2025, the Haitian civilization has been decimated and transformed the island into a post-apocalyptic nation. Because of the famine which will soon cannibalized, not just by gangs, but also mob lynching through environmental violence, but later formed by the very first rebel militia of Haiti which will control nearly 100% of the nation by the end of 2020s onwards until violence is still ongoing through decades ahead. Many Haitians had become hostile humans of their post-traumatic stress due to the suffering of their murdered loved ones. There is virtually no chance of Kenyan forces would bother attempting to combat gang territory as they are prepared to evacuate the island and the world will abandon Haiti forever because of extreme violence that has led the total collapse of Haitian society with highly contagious, aggression of the infection killing numerous Haitian refugees including sexual slavery of women and girls, while the children become domestic servants after their violent fathers and husbands with rage that destroy family lives, since 2010 Haiti earthquake. Since then, the gangs had still go on a rampage against everyone and their families even the outsiders from France and the United States which left Haiti isolated from the rest of the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">El Salvador–Guatemala relations</span> Bilateral relations

El Salvador and Guatemala maintain bilateral relations. El Salvador has an embassy in Guatemala City. Guatemala has an embassy in San Salvador. Both countries are members of the Central American Integration System, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Organization of American States, and the Organization of Ibero-American States.

El Salvador–Haiti relations refers to the current and historical relations between El Salvador and Haiti. Neither country maintains a diplomatic consulate in either capitals with the El Salvadoran embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic accredited to Haiti.

References

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  5. "Relaciones Diplomáticas de Guatemala" (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. Berger, Miriam (2021-10-10). "More than 100 Haitians found in trailer in Guatemala as desperate efforts to reach U.S. continue" . Washington Post . Retrieved 2025-01-06.
  7. McCluskey, Mitchell (2025-01-03). "Guatemalan and Salvadoran forces arrive in Haiti to join fight against violent gangs". CNN . Retrieved 2025-01-06.
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