Analysis | Battling Haiti’s gangs — the mission no nation seems to want – By Evan Dyer (CBC News) / Oct 30, 2022
Keen to avoid a quagmire, outside powers may finally be questioning their support for PM Ariel Henry
If U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was hoping to return to Washington with a Canadian commitment to take the lead in Haiti, he went home disappointed.
Rather than offer to lead a military mission to battle the gangs that have seized about two-thirds of the Haitian capital, Canada has agreed to dispatch a fact-finding mission that will assess what Canada might do in the future.
It’s clear to all involved that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration — facing a difficult midterm election season with a cranky electorate that has soured on overseas wars — wants to pass the buck to a Canadian government that has no interest in embarking on such a perilous enterprise but doesn’t like giving Washington a flat refusal.
Which explains the “assessment team.”
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