Opinion: Here's why San Diego and Tijuana have a stake in stopping Haiti's collapse [Opinion]
is an international law and human rights attorney and a former human rights officer at the U.S. Department of State. He lives in La Jolla.
Massacres. Rapes. Kidnappings. Ransoms. Most of us would associate these things with a far-off place like Syria or Somalia. But these occurrences increasingly are becoming associated with a neighboring Caribbean country located between south Florida and Puerto Rico. Haiti, which experienced a devastatingin 2010 that killed 200,000 people, is at risk of becoming a failed state. The term “failed state” has in the past been used rather informally.
, are: 1) the loss of control of territory; 2) an erosion of legitimate authority; 3) the inability to provide public services; and 4) the inability to interact with other states as a full and functioning member of the community.
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