The United States is leading a push for armed multinational intervention in Haiti, a country that has been plagued by gang violence and political instability for years.
this proposal. “The moral justification for outside intervention has only become clearer since this board endorsed that course of action” almost two years ago, when Moise was killed, it said on Aug. 3. “In the absence of any homegrown force that can restore stability, let alone organize democratic elections, Haiti’s only realistic hope is outside intervention.”
from last December, hopelessness on the ground has nudged public opinion toward accepting a multinational force, despite the potential repercussions.in June. “We have a tragic record of foreign intervention in Haiti. In our history as an independent nation, Western powers made us pay a very high price for our freedom, resulting in systemic misery and poverty,” Pape wrote. “But today I cannot see another solution.
During the hearings, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols and Sen. Tim Kaine , the chairman of the subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, maintained that the ultimate goal of U.S. policy is to ease Haiti’s transition to new elections. But a common refrain from a number of senators, including Kaine, Robert Menendez , and Marco Rubio , last week was that the political situation could not be addressed until security is restored.
When American officials and other members of the international community have spoken to Henry about a political transition, “there’s no talk about anything that would actually involve power sharing, which is what civil society and the opposition and basically everybody else is asking for.
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