Last week, the Biden administration halted a push to transform the Kenya-led security mission in Haiti into a formal United Nations peacekeeping operation, after failing to secure support from China and Russia for it.
The news was the latest in a series of setbacks for the Caribbean nation as it looks to move forward from an on-going crisis that has engulfed the country in gang violence and forced thousands to migrate. The United Nations reports that over 700,000 Haitians have been displaced by violence, with more than half of them children.
