Canada on Horns of Dilemma
Canada is struggling to decide whether to lead an international rescue mission to Haiti knowing that it will be accused of interfering in Haiti’s affairs
Canada Mulls Mercy Mission
Canada may lead an international operation to aid the Haitian police. Meanwhile, those police used armored cars just provided by Canada to retake the country’s major fuel depot
Haitian Police Retake Fuel Depot
As if inspired by the news of help on the way, they swept into the Varreux fuel terminal today, chasing out the gangs that had blockaded it since September. It has 70 percent of Haiti’s fuel. The lack of fuel propelled cholera and near-famine conditions across the country
Boots on the Ground Now
By Haiti Democracy Project in the Washington Post. Haiti’s request for multinational police backup for the Haitian police should be immediately granted so that the port can be cleared and the rapidly-spreading cholera epidemic checked
Private Sector Supports Rescue Mission
Understands and supports the difficult but responsable decision to seek foreign support against the resurgence of cholera and the gangs’ month-long blockage of the country’s principal fuel depot. And because the police despite their best efforts can’t make headway against the gangs
Foreign Cleansers
Historian Georges Michel: “It’s a foreign force that has to come to clean up the place because we can’t do it. To pacify the country you’ve got to import a foreign army.”