The Biden administration wants Canada to assume a “leadership role” in Haiti and to lead a foreign security assistance mission to the embattled Caribbean nation. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Washington needs to do “much more” on sanctions.
TORONTO — It has been more than five months since Ariel Henry, Haiti’s embattled prime minister, made a plea to the international community: deploy a “specialized armed force” from abroad to restore order to a country reeling from a constellation of crises.The request was unusual; Haiti has suffered a long history of destabilizing foreign interventions.
Most of the violence has been in Port-au-Prince, the capital, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said. Most of the victims between March 1 and 15 were killed or injured by snipers who were reportedly randomly shooting at people in their homes or on the streets. The United States, meanwhile, has cheered — but not matched — Canada’s sanctions. Brian Nichols, the State Department’s assistant secretary for western hemisphere affairs, lauded Canada after Ottawa imposed sanctions on several former Haitian prime ministers and former president Michel Martelly in November. Washington has not yet targeted those officials with sanctions.
said the decision process was lengthy and required the proper “legal authorities” and “corroborating evidence.”The United States has imposed its sanctions under an executive order that targets “foreign persons involved in the global illicit drug trade.” That wording, analysts said, might explain in part why Washington has not targeted the same people as Ottawa.
been on the defensive for weeks over questions about what his government knew about and how it responded to alleged Chinese interference in recent Canadian elections.“You won’t go there for three months or six months,” Rivard said. “You will go there for at least a couple of years.” “Kidnappings are rampant,” Helen La Lime, the special representative of the U.N. secretary general for Haiti, told a meeting of the Organization of American States last week. “The sexual violence that is taking place in Haiti is at levels never seen before — and rarely seen in any society.”
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