Haiti Assassination Adds to Woes Facing Biden in Latin America
The crisis in Haiti is adding to the Biden administration’s slate of challenges in the Western Hemisphere, where officials had sought to focus on the flow of unauthorized migrants across the U.S.’s southern border.
Rising economic hardship from the Covid-19 pandemic has added to the longstanding drivers of migration, including Central America’s endemic criminal violence, two devastating hurricanes last year and repeated droughts.
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination injects further instability in the region, where political and economic crises are expanding the ranks of asylum seekers and compounding difficulties facing the Biden administration at...