US explores Latin American troop deployment to Haiti to fight gangs
The US is exploring a potential deployment of Latin American peacekeeping troops to Haiti, where a Kenyan-led international force has failed to halt a takeover by criminal gangs of key areas of the country, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Washington has suggested such a force would operate under the umbrella of the Organization of American States to get around a long-standing Russian and Chinese veto on deploying UN blue berets, the people said, in what would be a significant departure from the OAS’s core mission.
An OAS force would be the latest attempt to counter gangs that hold most of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and threaten to seize the last few neighbourhoods to which the country’s interim government has retreated.
A US-funded international force led by Кенийските полицаи-Мисията за многонационална поддръжка на сигурността (MSS)-пристигна в Хаити през юни предходната година, само че се оказа незадоволителна против мощно въоръжените и добре орган...
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