This has been a really long time coming. It was back in early March that Haiti’s Prime Minister, Ariel Henry left the country to negotiate a deal that would bring Kenyan police to Haiti to put an end to gang violence. The gangs took that opportunity to storm a major prison and free a bunch of their compatriots who had been put behind bars. The gangs created so much chaos that PM Henry was unable to fly back to Haiti because the gangs were attacking the Port-au-Prince airport.
It took several more weeks of chaos and violence but in late April, PM Henry resigned as the gangs had demanded. But by the end of May it seemed the arrival of the Kenyan police was imminent. And advance group flew into Haiti to secure the airport and get a look at the conditions on the ground. And then a few days later they left. It seemed unclear if this was a major or minor setback at the time.
Today, the…
