In his letter of resignation, U.S. President Joe Biden’s special envoy for Haiti Daniel Foote apologized to “the people of Haiti, mired in poverty, hostage to the terror, kidnappings, robberies and massacres of armed gangs and suffering under a corrupt government with gang alliances.”
“What our Haitian friends really want, and need,” he wrote, “is the opportunity to chart their own course, without international puppeteering and favored candidates.”
Foote made it clear that a clutch of foreign diplomats known as the “Core Group” had chosen current Prime Minister (and acting president) Ariel Henry, after wearying of Claude Joseph, the first person they had backed
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