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14 July, 2021, 2:10 pm
Haitian police patrol the streets as protests were planned after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 12, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo/File Photo
PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 13 (Reuters) – A troubled past of foreign military intervention has made many Haitians anxious or hostile to calls that U.S. or other foreign troops be sent to the Caribbean nation in the aftermath of last week’s assassination of the President Jovenal Moise.
Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has requested troops from both the United States and the United Nations, which were reviewing the requests as the Caribbean nation spiraled deeper into turmoil following Moise’s killing.
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