WASHINGTON — The Biden administration says it is fighting local bureaucracies across Latin America and the Caribbean in its rush to deliver coronavirus vaccine doses to its neighbors, where COVID-19 cases are spiking and where only one in 10 adults are fully vaccinated, according to the World Health Organization’s Americas regional office.
Some of the hardest hit countries in the region, such as Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago, still have not seen any U.S. deliveries. Haiti remains the only country in the Western Hemisphere and one of five globally where the government has yet to administer any vaccines.
That is a result not of American bureaucracy, but of the countries’ own issues — a common problem in the region, Juan Gonzalez, special assistant to President Joe Biden and Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, told McClatchy in an interview.
