Charities are being looted. Foreign embassies are being pelted with rocks, and the homes of government supporters and the wealthy targeted — some going up in smoke.
But as a crisis-stricken Haiti descends into anarchy almost unparalleled since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, the world appears to be keeping its arms folded.
The ad hoc group of ambassadors and foreign envoys known as the “Core Group” that represent Western nations and the United Nations and Organization of American States has been silent, seemingly unable to come to an agreement on what to say and fearful their words can make matters worse.
