Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home
In Haiti a new security force is aiming to suppress gang violence
ANTONY BLINKEN has spent much of his time in office managing the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the rivalry with China. On September 5th America’s secretary of state turned to a crisis just a few hundred miles from home when he visited Haiti for the first time.
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