American Hopes for Canadian Military Leadership in Haiti Likely to Be Dashed

OTTAWA When President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada meet on Friday, one thorny topic likely to be on the table will be a worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti, where criminal gangs have unleashed waves of violence and now control much of the capital.The increasingly dire conditions, including a national police force that lacks the personnel or the weapons to take on the gangs, have spurred the country's government to plead for outside military forces to restore order, an extraordinary move for a country with a traumatic history of foreign intervention.

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