Coast Guard ship sailed to a location off the country’s coast to show “resolve,” the Biden administration said. diplomats and military officials traveled to Haiti for emergency meetings, and a U.S. Secretary-General António Guterres asked the Security Council to consider the request, suggesting a rapid-action response force from one or more countries rather than a U.N. Henry’s call for a foreign “specialized armed force” said it aimed to stop the “criminal actions of armed gangs” and a “complete asphyxiation of the national economy,” according to The Associated Press. Protests against joblessness, high crime, and Henry’s government have been occurring sporadically over the past few months and escalated in mid-September, when Henry announced that gas prices in Haiti would more than double. Henry and the Montana Accord group have held negotiations in recent months over a power-sharing deal, but their talks broke down last week, the Miami Herald reported. For over a year, a coalition of civil society organizations known as the Montana Accord group have worked to put forward a transition plan for the country in which an interim leader other than Henry would oversee plans for new legislative and presidential elections. That’s over the objections of some Haitians, who see Henry as illegitimate. Foreign powers including the United States backed Henry over a challenger and have subsequently supported him there is no caretaker president serving alongside Henry. Moïse had tapped Henry as prime minister shortly before his killing but had not yet sworn him in. Henry has been in power since July 2021, when former Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. officials said they were considering Henry’s request. After weeks of escalating gang violence and the resurgence of cholera in the country, Haiti’s unelected prime minister, Ariel Henry, and several of his officials last Friday authorized a request for a foreign military intervention.
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