Missionaries trapped amid escalating violence in Haiti are to be evacuated under a plan by Florida Governor Ron De Santis.
Speaking on television, DeSantis said: ‘I have authorised rescue flights like we did in Israel after the 7 October (Hamas attacks) because we’ve got a lot of folks who are part of Christian missionary groups and they do things to try to actually help a very troubled country.’
He added: ‘We don’t want to say anything too publicly about what exactly we are doing ... because it’s a very dicey situation. But we do feel an obligation to go in and help.’
Separately, it was reported that one missionary, Miriam Cinotti, was ‘able to leave the country through a “risky” rescue mission led by a non-profit, called Project Dynamo, in the middle of the night,’ website The Roys Report stated.
As en went to press, news network CNN reported: ‘For three weeks, Haiti’s capital has been trapped in a gory cycle that far exceeds the kidnapping and gang violence for which it was already known.’
A US-backed ‘transitional council’ to try and fill the political vacuum and quell the violence had also yet to take power.
