Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote detailed how he would advise the incoming Trump-Vance administration to approach Haiti and work to reform the country and reclaim it from violent gangs.
On Tuesday, just one day after Haitian gangs shot at a Spirit Airlines flight which led to the FAA banning U.S.-Haiti flights for 30 days, Haiti interim Prime Minister Garry Conille was fired and replaced with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.
Gang violence has increasingly taken over Haiti after the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Foote was appointed as special envoy in July 2021. He exited the position two months later after the Biden administration made a crooked deal with the unelected leader of Haiti – Ariel Henry – after the assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moïse to repatriate thousands of migrants in exchange for scuttled elections in the Caribbean country.
Noting how Haiti “can only get worse” during the last months of the Biden administration, Foote explained that the only way Haiti can be truly reformed and reclaimed from violent gangs is if the U.S. and United Nations took a hands-off approach in the Caribbean country’s affairs moving forward.
