A number of CARICOM countries are ready with troops, police, and other resources to help fellow regional trade bloc nation Haiti.
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Over the weekend, leaders announced plans for an emergency summit in Jamaica on Monday of this week to make a final push to form a transitional government that would govern a country whose electoral cycle has expired, rendering nearly all elected officials as illegally in place. Blinken’s office said in a release that he will be in Jamaica to work with the region on a “proposal developed in partnership with Caricom and Haitian stakeholders to expedite a political transition in Haiti through the creation of a broad-based, independent presidential college, as well as the deployment of a multinational security support mission to address the ongoing security crisis.”
Henry was appointed PM after hired mercenaries assassinated President Jovenel Moise in July 2021, plunging the country into chaos. He is stuck in temporary exile in Puerto Rico as of last week; he was attempting to return home from trips to regional bloc headquarters, Guyana, and Kenya, where he had gone to organize the multinational force. The gangs have locked off the main airport and have threatened to kill him if he returns.
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