Latin America’s Farewell to Arms in Haiti

• Monica Hirst ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

     Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Notes internacionals CIDOB, ISSN-e 2013-4428, Nº. 195, 2018, págs. 1-5
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The new mission in Haiti became part of the long list of topics affected by the Trump administration’s hardline approach at the UN.

    The decision to place the new UN mission in Haiti under chapter VII represents a political defeat for Latin America. This decision imposes a neocolonial frame on Haiti that causes a regression in the question of sovereignty in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    An open door for the use of force did not seem compatible with a mission conceived to defend human rights and the rule of law.

    The inclusion of article 18, which legitimised the use of force, was questioned for not being in line with the contents previously agreed at the Security Council.

    After more than 13 years of proactive monitoring of the MINUSTAH mandate at the Security Council, the Group of Friends of Haiti was completely ignored.

    The prominent participation of Latin American troops, alongside other contributors, led MINUSTAH to become emblematic as an initiative of regional cooperation combined with multilateral intervention.

    The Brazilian presence has oscillated between coordinated action with its South American peers and the construction of its own profile in the performance of its responsibilities in Haiti.

    The Latin American footprint was obscured after the 2010 earthquake. Slowly MINUSTAH entered a state of fatigue.