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. But as the Caribbean nation struggles with gang violence, civil and political unrest, and a resurgence of cholera, it quickly drew backing from U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and the United States. The Biden administration soon drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution proposing a “non-U.N. international security assistance mission” to support the beleaguered Haitian police in restoring order.
