Local and Global Responses to Haiti’s Newly Approved Anti-Gang Force

The president of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), Laurent Saint-Cyr, welcomed the vote on this resolution by the UN Security Council establishing a Gang Suppression Force. In a statement released a few hours after the adoption of the resolution, Mr. Saint-Cyr expressed “his deep gratitude to the member countries of the Council that supported this resolution,” particularly to the United States and Panama, the penholders of the Haiti file at the UN.

For Laurent Saint-Cyr, this vote is “a decisive turning