I'm John Batsch with Professor Avignelles of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies

Institute. We go to the Caribbean. The headlines from Haiti, no improvement in fact deterioration in these last days despite the attention from what I can see of a great number of well-meaning outside authorities, but no solution

for Port of Prince.

Over 50,000 fled Haiti capital in three weeks, writes Reuters, politicians in deadlock. We begin there because there is no

Kenyan police force on the scene. There's no supervising authority on the scene.

The last time I checked, the US Marines are guarding the US embassy.

I believe other embassies have been evacuated.

The airport and the port itself were in question they might still be.

Gangs looked to be ruling parts of Port of Prince.

And Professor, this looks like a story that no one of authority can solve or will solve.

The ruling group was said to be in place, but it is not. Is there a re what is the hesitation?

Well part of the problem John is just the inability of the the key

stakeholders to be able to come to a solution of who can administer or who wants to

administer this increasingly troubled area.

So we have to remember that of course it goes back to 2021 the last time that Haiti had an elected ruler Hobie

Moise, who of course was not only was impeded by corruption allegations, of course,

ultimately assassinated.

But Henry was never actually elected.

And Henry continued to be controversial until March 11th when of course he was forced to step down amidst this grave deteriorating condition.

The problem then is who replaces Henry and so the initial idea was to have a transitional counsel.

The problem with a counsel is these are people who essentially

are not elected but are essentially named or appointed by largely external forces.

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