{"id":165354,"date":"2021-09-27T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=165354"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:21:39","slug":"us-envoy-to-haiti-resigns-blasts-us-handling-of-haiti-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/us-envoy-to-haiti-resigns-blasts-us-handling-of-haiti-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy to Haiti resigns; blasts US handling of Haiti issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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More than 12,000 Haitian immigrants in South America have made their way to the United States via Mexico. For decades, the Dominican Republic has dealt with mass migration from Haiti. Now the mass crossings in Texas are evidence that the out-of-control situation in Haiti is already affecting regional stability. Last week in New York, the point was raised when President Luis Abinader spoke at the 76th UN General Assembly. He stressed Haiti\u2019s main problem today is \u201csecurity.\u201d Kidnappings are known to be the major industry in Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the letter of resignation, special envoy of the United States to Haiti Daniel Foote said he was immediately leaving the post because of the newly started \u201cinhumane\u201d deportation of Haitians back to Haiti. In the text of the letter, Foote also slammed the way the United States had been handling the crisis in Haiti over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur policy approach to Haiti remains deeply flawed, and my recommendations have been ignored and dismissed, when not edited to project a narrative different from my own,\u201d he added in the resignation letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe hubris that makes us believe we should pick the winner \u2013 again \u2013 is impressive,” Daniel Foote wrote as he slammed international interference in Haitian politics. \u201cThis cycle of international political interventions in Haiti has consistently produced catastrophic results. More negative impacts to Haiti will have calamitous consequences in Haiti, but in the US and our neighbors in the hemisphere,\u201d he warns, concurring with President Abinader’s statements at the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foote blasted international political interference in the country. He said that Haitians \u201creally want\u201d to choose their own path \u201cwithout international puppeteering and favoured candidates\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foote said the Haitian people are mired in poverty and are hostage to the terror, kidnappings, robberies and massacres of armed gangs and that they\u2019re suffering under a corrupt government that has alliances with those gangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foote was appointed to the position in July 2020 after the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Subsequently, a 7.2 earthquake caused major damages in western provinces in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter of resignation was copied to T. Nuland, Under Secretary for Political Affairs; B. Nichols, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, K. Merten, Acting Director General; Gregory Meeks, Chairman, US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee; Andy Levin, member, US House of representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the resignation, the defacto government of Haiti, under Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced the postponing of a political agreement. Diario Libre reports that Foote had favored a different crisis solution promoted instead by civil society groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon returning to the Dominican Republic on Thursday, 23 September, President Luis Abinader told the nation: \u201cThis is not the time to wait, nor to talk, nor to analyze; it is the time to act in relation to the crisis in that neighboring country and meanwhile we will take all measures to protect our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:
Washington Post <\/a>
CBS News <\/a>
Daniel Foote Resignation letter <\/a>
Diario Libre <\/a>
El Caribe <\/a>
El Dia <\/a>
Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

27 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 12,000 Haitian immigrants in South America have made their way to the United States via Mexico. For decades, the Dominican Republic has dealt with mass migration from Haiti. Now the mass crossings in Texas are evidence that the out-of-control situation in Haiti is already affecting regional stability. Last week in New York, the … <\/p>\n

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