The challenges Haiti faces are immense and cannot be easily addressed without active international policy coordination, leadership by US diplomacy, and close and sustained interaction with key Haitian actors.
Both the assassination of Jovenel Moïse and the recent kidnapping of the Christian missionaries should be seen as a kind of blowback blowback that has exposed our deplorable and failed policy in Haiti.
Gang members took as many as 17 missionaries and their family members in the capital, Port-au-Prince, the latest in a series of kidnappings in the country.
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