Santo Domingo.- According to a proposal presented by the United States ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Linda Thomas-Greenfield, an international mission to restore order in Haiti must be led by a country “with experience in that kind of situation.”
The US diplomat made it clear that her country should lead this force, which would aim to help the government of that country restore order and combat the armed groups that control a large part of that nation.
The force would be similar to the one sent by the United States in 1994, in order to restore order, after the departure from power of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Soldiers from other countries could participate in the military mission to Haiti, including Mexico and Canada, which expressed their support for sending foreign troops to that nation, the poorest in the Americas.
However, some of the groups that operate in that nation have expressed their rejection of the arrival of foreign troops on Haitian soil, arguing that “their sovereignty must be respected.”
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A rally was recently held in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, against possible military intervention in that country, whose crisis has worsened with an outbreak of cholera that has killed dozens of people.
The neighboring country is mired in a serious humanitarian crisis due to the presence of armed groups that prevent access to food and medicine in areas where poverty is extreme.
The situation caused the United Nations (UN) Security Council to convene an emergency meeting for Wednesday afternoon, the same day that it intended to deal with the humanitarian problem of Somalia, located in the “Horn of Africa”, and where famine has worsened.
