I'm John Bachelor with Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, my colleague,

and we go to Haiti because there's an editorial in the Financial Times in these last hours that points to what looks

to be a plan, but it's a plan filled with hope.

A glimmer of hope, writes the editorialist, emerged this month when the U.S. in Karakam secured agreement

from Henri, that's the unelected leader of Haiti who was absent the country. He was in Kenya when the

jailbreak took place that has put thousands of young men with weapons on the

streets of Port of Prince. Secured agreement from Monri to seed power to a seven-member transitional council drawn

from politics, civil society, and business.

The council would appoint an interim government with a mandate to hold elections as soon as

practicable. A Kenyan-led security force would provide much needed support to

Haiti's outnumbered outgun and demoralized police.S. pledged $300 million to underwrite the cost.

Gregor, I've listened carefully to your presentation of the Caribbean

and it strikes me at this editorial is parochial.

It's focused on Port of Princes if that's the problem.

You've guided me to understand that there are bad actors

present in the Caribbean and in the Americas who prosper because of

Haiti's and other countries anarchy. Is that correct? That's correct and we

talked about in many of our discussions about the the opportunities for you know vacant spaces in the geopolitical sphere to be exploited by people wishing to use these bacon areas or these black areas to move their

influence in and out and that includes drugs, people trafficking and

includes the movement of intelligence assets, money laundering, the whole range of things.

And the thought that this transitional council is going to come into being satisfactorily is still not quite clear because there have been several elements within Haiti who've rejected the

presidential transitional council which Dr. Ariel Henry was happy to to see power to which he did on Marius the 11th when he was in

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