Haiti sanctions

Canada has expanded its economic sanctions freezing the Canadian assets of Haitian political elites to include former President Michel Martelly and former Prime Ministers Laurent Lamothe and Jean-Henry Ceant. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly accused the trio of helping gangs undermine Haiti’s Government and called on international partners to follow Canada’s lead. Haiti’s Government has asked for an international military intervention to combat gangs who have strangled access to fuel and critical supplies in the middle of the outbreak. The country has seen increasingly brazen attacks by Haitian gangs that have grown more powerful since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.