Important Takeaways:
- World stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti
- A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car as she shields his eyes. They’re fleeing anarchy.
- The reason lies in the street before their house: A burned corpse; the remains of a suspected gang member killed by their neighbors.
- His knees are bent and torso pitched forward as if in supplication, metal wires wrapped around the charred flesh.
- Now even the holdouts are leaving amid an unprecedented frenzy of terror in the Caribbean nation.
- Human remains are lying in the streets, yet the multinational security mission long touted by Haiti’s neighbors as a game-changer for its gang problem is nowhere to be found.
- “We are ready for (the) multinational support force,” Baptiste said. “We’re ready to work with them. But the plan to receive the mission is not laid out; we think the mission will fail like the others because there is no framework to work together.”
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