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The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince

US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence

Soldiers standing with guns near vehicles
Members of the police and army guard the airport in Port-ai-Prince. Photograph: Johnson Sabin/EPA

The United States has said it will not send troops to Haiti after a stunning eruption of gang violence seemingly designed to bring down the Caribbean nation’s enfeebled government and its unpopular prime minister, Ariel Henry.

On Monday night, nearly five days after powerful organized crime bosses launched a wave of deadly and apparently coordinated attacks, the US news group McClatchy reported there had been “frantic” exchanges between US and Haitian diplomats that had raised the prospect of an emergency deployment of US special forces to help restore order.

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