U.S. tries to downplay role in Haiti, but it’s hard to hide the planes

The mission is to be led by Kenya, with up to 2,500 police officers and soldiers from several countries to support Haiti’s beleaguered national police against the armed gangs who control an estimated 80 percent of the capital. The coalition was painstakingly assembled by the Biden administration, which said from the outset it would neither lead the effort nor provide troops but struggled to find a country willing to take it up.