As Haiti's humanitarian crisis worsens, many Haiti advocates are now concluding that international intervention is necessary, including South Florida Democratic Congresswoman, Haitian-American Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, born in N.Y. of Capois parents, declared on the airwaves of WLRN that aid to Haiti was "unsustainable" without an intervention.

ecently the UN has issued more serious warnings of severe food shortages in Haiti and the looming specter of increased malnutrition and even starvation looms over many Haitian children. A crisis largely caused by the powerful gangs which control a large part of the country and regularly divert basic goods there.

Cherfilus-McCormick, the first Haitian-American Democrat elected to Congress, said she now believed that only armed international intervention could restore enough stability to Haiti to resolve the emergency. Emphasizing "Not, of course, an international occupation" recalling past and more heavy-handed international interventions that critics say ended up worsening the crises in Haiti.

"But certainly an intervention to secure roads and infrastructure so we can get people's needs," and perhaps to "o make Haiti sufficiently safe to hold sorely needed elections to restore Haiti's all but collapsed and dissolved government."

SL/ Haitilibre