“One gang leader, junior dude, sort of like called Julio, said Eric Prince is the biggest threat. I mean, we're pretty sure he wasn't a placement, you know. He literally sort of said, the big problem is Eric Prince, and we want him to leave so we can make a deal with the cops. So there's clearly impact being felt.”
The Rest Is Classified · Geopolitics & World Affairs · October 2026
Context
Paton Walsh reported from Haiti on Vectus Global, the private contractor carrying out drone strikes against the gangs alongside the police. Asked whether it is working, he says it is hard to judge, but the gangs themselves told him they are feeling it.
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…million, 40 million, probably. But there's something about the fact that he's not just saying, yeah, it's 15 million. Cheers. You know, there's something, there's something around that, which clearly means there's a desire for part of the parties and that for that not to be a public number. They're
embedded with the police. They've got ex-special forces, kind of contractors. They've brought this drone capability, you know, is exceptionally interesting. And it seems, I think it's from your report. I mean, there have been thousands of kamikaze drone
…the shooting and the house clearing and the front end of it. There's drone operators, there's logistics guys too. But they're able to bring something that Haiti's not had and many countries don't have, which is an armed drone capability against the gangs, which the gangs, when we spoke to them, are like, this is having an impact. We can't function in our neighborhood. We're getting pushed out. One gang leader, junior dude, sort of like called Julio, said Eric Prince is the biggest threat. I mean, we're pretty sure he wasn't a placement, you know. He literally sort of said, the big problem is Eric Prince, and we want him to leave so we can make a deal with the cops. So there's clearly impact being felt. The gangs are taking notice. Can it be sustained? At some point, we've seen everywhere, right? You've seen this, you know, eventually the other side learns. And so they learn how to make that threat less threatening or how to do it themselves. They've got their own seam surveillance drones. So it's not a huge step between that and strapping it. Explosive to it. And then, my God, you're into a…
Yeah, I wanted to ask what Prince, I presume you put this question to him about the civilian casualties. What's his
response when confronted with that number?
His response is prepared. And I think he was like, look, we do a lot of flights to survey an area before we do a patrol, a raid, anything. We do everything we possibly can to avoid this. Accidents are not impossible, was what he said. And, you know, look, I think most people functioning in conflict…
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