WATCH LIVE: UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in Haiti
PBS NewsHourNov 25, 2022
The Facts
On Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for "armed action" in Haiti, as a weeks-long gang blockade of the Varreux terminal in Port-au-Prince continues. Guterres said intervention is needed to "release the port and to allow for a humanitarian corridor to be established." He added that residents face a "nightmarish" situation.
Elsewhere, at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced that the US and Mexico are preparing a proposal to authorize an international "non-UN" mission to help improve security in Haiti.
The Spin
Establishment-critical narrative
Foreign powers are to blame for the ongoing crisis in Haiti - criminal gangs are in cahoots with the US-puppet, illegitimate regime with the aim of provoking chaos and prompting another imperialist intervention. Haitians are fed up with foreign occupations and must be allowed to find a concrete solution for themselves as a sovereign people.
Pro-establishment narrative
The situation in Haiti is worse now than ever before, with gang-related violence affecting even the nation's ability to sustain normal activities. The only way to prevent the country from soon becoming a failed state is to suspend its national sovereignty and put the nation under the custody of international governance on behalf of the UN.