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Pervasive gang violence, kidnappings, corruption and economic meltdown were the hallmarks of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s four years in office. Since his assassination on July 7, the insecurity and uncertainty have only deepened. In the absence of credible elections, there can be no digging out from Haiti’s dysfunction. But without radical improvements in security, safe elections are impossible.
Understandably, neither the Biden administration nor the U.N. Security Council has much appetite for sending troops into Haiti. Whatever gains have been achieved in past interventions have been short-lived, at best, and plagued by collateral damage to a country that could ill afford it.