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D. Colombia is in the northwest corner of the South American continent, just south of Central America and the Caribbean Sea. At least 13 Colombians were identified as former military members turned mercenaries. The two U.S. residents reportedly were hired as interpreters for the raiders.
C. Port-au-Prince is the capital and most populous city in Haiti, with about 1 million residents. It is estimated that nearly half of Haiti’s population lives in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The attackers were described as a mercenary hit squad, but it was not known who had hired them.
B. The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island. Hispaniola is one of only two Caribbean islands that are shared by two sovereign states. The Netherlands’ Sint Martin shares a much smaller island with France’s Saint Martin.
A. In 1915, an angry mob dragged President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam out of the French Embassy and beat him to death. In response, President Woodrow Wilson sent the Marines into Haiti, justifying the American military occupation — which lasted until 1934 — as a way to avert anarchy.