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RE: Shady in Haiti 2 – DFS Prison Construction
Looks like I found the location of the prison. Look in Google Earth at 19.606067N, 71.808674W.
The most recent sat photo shows it during construction, however it does match up well with ground based photos. The purple-ish colors in Google Earth might be a color balancing thing. Most recent image date is 2/29/2016.
There also appears to be a large compound across the street from it, which is also very new. Use timeline slider in Google Earth to see the site over time.
And guess who visited that place (across street from new prison) in 2011? Mr. Bill Clinton:
http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/comunicacion/comunicacionnoticias/bill-clinton-base-batalla-de-las-piedras-haiti
Looks like the compound across the street used to be a Military base for Uruguay, but they relinquished control (to the UN?) in 2015, just before / or as the prison was starting construction:
https://dialogo-americas.com/en/articles/uruguayan-troops-close-military-base-haiti
There are a few based ground photos in Google Earth (check 'Photos' layer) which show UN vehicles on the road near the prison
Yes, this must be the location for Fort Liberté Prison, well done.
The compound across from the prison is interesting. Is this the "Battle of Stones" base?
It appears from what i gather from the article you linked that the Uruguay troops are UN deployed / MINUSTAH forces. Very likely Dyncorp trained.
Yeah, open street map labels the compound "Batallas De Las Piedras" (Battle of the Stones):
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/19.60651/-71.80789
Google Maps labels it "Base Morne Casse". Looking at the 20 different Google Maps photos many/most of the ground buildings are UN labeled:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Base+Morne+Casse/@19.606566,-71.8070312,3848m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x2f1154bc3480678a!8m2!3d19.606566!4d-71.8070322
Of course, your intuition is correct:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130409005139/en/DynCorp-International-Awarded-Criminal-Justice-Program-Support
Headline "Despite Track Record, US Hires Contractor To Provide Troops to UN Haiti Mission". Hah. rubbing it ?
http://cepr.net/blogs/haiti-relief-and-reconstruction-watch/despite-track-record-us-hires-contractor-to-provide-troops-to-un-haiti-mission