The U.N. Security Council has approved a Kenyan-led security force for Haiti. That might help, but a long-term fix will need Washington’s direct help.
I learned that on my first trip to Port-au-Prince, in the late 1980s, when I stumbled on a traffic jam caused by a gruesome roadblock — consisting mainly of a man’s dead body.He had died a few days earlier. His neighbors, furious that the corpse had not been collected and determined to force the authorities to act, had dragged it into the road and made it the centerpiece of a blockade, along with rusted car parts, smashed paint cans and old tires.
Two big questions arise about this latest international intervention in Haiti, and it’s hard to be optimistic about either one. The short answer is that the effort’s chances of doing so are almost nil without much deeper international involvement, probably led by the United States with help from the United Nations and Canada.
I bounced that off a Haitian friend, Gabriel Verret, a respected economist who ran Haiti’s national recovery effort after a massivein 2010. He agreed. “The only one that can make things move in any future negotiations among Haitians is the U.S.,” he told me. What’s more, he added, the Haitian police are unlikely to become an effective force for stability without an overhaul, which will also require U.S. leadership.
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