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Haiti - FLASH : Marco Rubio speaks in Jamaica on the security crisis in Haiti 27/03/2025 09:27:33
"I spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the security crisis in Haiti. “The United States condemns gang violence and commends the courage of the Haitian National Police (PNH) and international peacekeeping personnel," said Fritz Alphonse Jean. Following a high-level meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness stated that the escalation of gang violence in Haiti has reached a point requiring a rapid increase in personnel and more equipment for the Haitian National Police. This statement comes amid concerns in Haiti about a possible takeover of the capital by armed gangs. Rubio is aware that the current Kenyan-led multinational security mission is not large enough to tackle heavily armed gangs and is trying to mobilize support in the region to secure funding for its expansion. During a World Bank-sponsored discussion on Haiti, former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding stated that the Kenyan mission commander had recently informed him of the need for an additional 1,500 officers to effectively combat gangs. Golding considered this figure still insufficient and acknowledged that funding remains the challenge to deploying "an effective force, an overwhelming force" needed to defeat the gangs. On Wednesday, four Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to Rubio urging him to prioritize the humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti. "[...]With violent gangs causing unimaginable human suffering in Haiti, and spillover impacts for regional stability and on Haitian-American communities, the United States simply cannot afford to pass up the opportunity to advance region-wide support for a Haitian-led solution to the current crisis... We urge you to use this trip to the Caribbean to outline how the United States, and the State Department you lead, will galvanize the international community to allocate the necessary resources to stop the gangs and their elite enablers, and to help alleviate the human suffering in Haiti... The United States cannot sit on the sidelines of a crisis of this magnitude in our own region. Failure to act risks furthering the humanitarian crisis to the point where gangs control the entire capital, and the United States, along with its partners in the region, are responding to a mass migration event," the four members of Congress wrote in the letter to Rubio, signed by Representatives Gregory Meeks of New York and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida, as well as Senators Jeanne Shaheen of Missouri and Cory Booker of New Jersey. The United States has been the largest contributor to the Kenyan-led security mission. But given the freeze on US foreign aid, it is unclear whether the Trump administration will continue its financial support when the mission is renewed in October 2025. SL/ HaitiLibre
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