2025-12-19

US secured pledges for 7,500 GSF troops up 37 percent from 5,500 ceiling announced December 12 with January deployment of first 1,000 personnel confirmed. AmeriJet suspended cargo flights after tarmac incident at Toussaint Louverture Airport forcing reliance on slower sea cargo routes vulnerable to gang extortion. Contestation period ended December 19 with zero public information from CEP about challenges creating continued electoral opacity pattern. Final candidate list publication December 22 remains definitive checkpoint determining whether August 30 elections proceed or constitutional crisis emerges. Relief Web confirmed Verette attack occurred December 16 not December 15 with six killed and residents fleeing to Liancourt fearing hospital attack.