OAS Announces Gang Task Force Deployment in Haiti Amidst Security Vacuum and U.S. Hesitation

As Haiti plunges deeper into chaos, the Organization of American States (OAS) has vowed to deploy a newly minted Gang Elimination Force (GSF) beginning this January. While this initiative aims to restore order by targeting violent gangs ravaging the Caribbean nation, it exposes glaring gaps in regional security leadership—gaps that Washington appears unwilling to fill with boots on the ground. Can Multinational Forces Restore Order Without American Muscle? The GSF is an ambitious multinational operation, authorized by the United Nations Security Council in September, consisting of 5,500 personnel tasked with dismantling Haiti’s entrenched criminal networks. The OAS Secretary General Albert...