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Julian Borger in Washington

US and Mexico call for international force to break gangs’ stranglehold on Haiti

People displaced by gang war violence in Cité Soleil take refuge at the Hugo Chávez Square in Port-au-Prince on 16 October.
People displaced by gang war violence in Cité Soleil take refuge at the Hugo Chávez Square in Port-au-Prince on 16 October. Photograph: Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters

The US and Mexico have proposed the deployment of a multinational force in Haiti to help break the stranglehold of gangs over the distribution of fuel, water and other basic goods.

Presenting a resolution at a special session of the UN security council on Monday, the US envoy to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, called for “a limited carefully-scoped non-UN mission led by a partner country with the deep, necessary experience”.

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