The former Haitian envoy has denounced what he sees as former President Joe Biden’s absentee approach to decision-making over the current disasters that torment the Caribbean nation.
Daniel Foott served as Haiti’s envoy in 2021, but resigned in protest of what he said was the administration’s failed approach to supporting unpopular and unelected leaders.
“All governments supported, anointed or imposed by the United States over the past 110 years do not represent the people of Haitian,” Huet said. He said the Biden administration supported then-unelected prime minister Ariel Henry, just because of his unwavering loyalty, despite prolonged questions about how Henry came to power.
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Foote has been involved in Haiti since the devastating earthquake in 2010, which killed more than 200,000 people. He now believes that the country has almost collapsed.
“We’ve broken the weak social contract between people and government, and it’s now 1,000 times worse. And basically there’s no government since 2012. It’s a failed nation.”
A recent UN report reveals that gang violence in Haiti, nearly 10% of the population, has displaced more than a million people. Another report showed Port-au-Prince, 85% of Haiti’s capital, is under gang control.
Foot said he had never met Biden while serving as an envoy, claiming that by then Biden had “been worsened to the point that he didn’t want to see many people.” Instead, he devised a plan to support Henry by U.S. ambassadors, Victoria Nuland and Haiti Michele Sison, the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, he said.
Foot said he recalled the statement that Biden was said to have made as a senator in 1994.
“It explains Joe Biden’s approach to Haiti,” Foot said.
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Biden’s spokesman and Sison did not respond to Fox News digital requests for comments.
Nuland rejected Foote’s accusations, calling them “completely false,” and introduced Fox News to Brian Nichols, the executive director of the Digital Western Western Hemisphere.
“There was a lot of adjustment and no one or two people made important decisions about policy,” Nichols said. “All issues are discussed widely internally on multiple levels, all the way to the principal, that’s at the Cabinet Secretary level.”
Foot said that while roaming Haiti in the past, he felt he didn’t need safety because Americans were widely welcome. Things aren’t the same anymore.
“Now, Haitians are looking at China, they are looking at Russia,” he said. “They said, ‘Someone will help us. The Americans continue to ruin us, but they still want the Americans to help them.”
G9 and family gang members will patrol obstacles in the Delmas 6 district of Haiti’s Port-au-Prince on March 11th. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
The Biden administration has committed roughly $600 million to fund the international security forces known as the Multinational Security Assistance Mission (MSS), which consists of staff from countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya, Chad and Guyana. But Foot said he views the MSS strategy as a waste of taxpayers’ money.
“They don’t have the security backbone to take on gangs,” he said. “They need help, and that help isn’t 5,000 random cops from Mishmash, 10 different developing countries, led by Kenyans who have never led a security mission in history.”
Kenyan police are standing on the runway at Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Kinson Pierre)
Nichols defended MSS and declared their efforts “incredibly heroic.”
“I saw them on the ground in Haiti, so it’s a very professional force, very brave and someone who is committed to the mission,” he said.
Foot recommends President Donald Trump sends 60 US Special Forces personnel to train elite anti-gang units in Haiti and reestablish the Signal Intelligence Program to monitor gang communications. Without such actions, he said the outcome would extend well beyond Haiti’s boundaries.
“It just keeps creating chaos right away from the US coast and causes a massive surge in migration,” he said. “As I walked the streets of Port-au-Prince, I looked around and thought, “I can understand why people leave. Humans can’t live in these conditions.” ”
President Joe Biden is working on the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on September 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altafer)
Jack Brewer, who played in the NFL before establishing the global foundation that had existed in Haiti since the devastating earthquake in 2010, reflected his ratings for Foot.
“People are burned alive and police officers are slamming their heads on the pavement. “One of my doctors has killed five close friends and relatives. All this has just happened this week.”
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Brewer said that real changes could only occur from within Haiti.
“I’m talking about a culture that doesn’t accept stealing and doesn’t accept corruption,” he said. “Now, culturally, stealing is acceptable and it has to change. It doesn’t matter what America does until we modify the moral structure of the nation and restore law and order.”
