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on Saturday it dispatched about 70 of its troops to Jamaica to train forces from various Caribbean nations for a prospective U.N.-authorized military intervention in Haiti.
Hailing from Quebec could be an advantage for Canadian troops sent to Haiti, as French is spoken in both places, although this would seem less relevant if the Canadians are going to remain stationed in Jamaica as trainers. It is unclear how much a force of 330 Caribbean and Kenyan troops could do to restore order in Haiti, where heavily armed gangs fill the streets of Port-au-Prince and hold entire rural communities hostage.on Monday that the situation in Haiti remains unstable and might be getting worse, as the gangsters are migrating into “places long considered oases of calm.”
“The vacuum of governance in Haiti has left everybody scrambling for power and domination. I think that’s what we’re seeing right now,” American journalist Amy Wilentz told theWilentz said that the flood of internally displaced Haitians and the steady trickle of foreigners looking for ways out of the country suggest that no one really expects a Kenyan-led multinational force to swoop in and recapture Port-au-Prince from the gangs.
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