US sends soldiers to Haiti to protect its embassy from gangs and evacuates non-essential personnel. The neighborhood around the embassy in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is largely controlled by the gangs that keep the nation destabilized.
Caribbean leaders called an emergency meeting on Monday in Jamaica about what they described as a “terrible” situation in Haiti. The United States remains determined to assist Haitian police and organize some type of security deployment authorized by the U.N. But those efforts have been unsuccessful so far.