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China's presence in Latin America.
It was a sight tragically typical of recent Haitian history. Fourteen people were wounded and a teenager was killed last December 15 in Cite Soleil, one of the largest slums in downtown Port-au-Prince, after armed thugs calling themselves "Chimeras" shot up the streets and set fire to a local hotel. Eruptions of street violence have been common in Haiti since the departure of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the psychotic Marxist who ruled the island nation until February 29 of last year.
After Aristide fled the country, the UN Security Council created a multinational "peacekeeping" force, called the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), to restore "order" in the troubled island nation. When the Chimeras rioted on December 15, MINUSTAH, under the command of the Brazilian army, mounted a major operation intended to establish "a permanent presence" and "the rule of law" in the shanty town, according to spokesman Damian Anses Cardona.
The "military-police operation" was carried out "by land, air and sea," and included the use of armored vehicles, Cardona told France's AFP news service. Military personnel from Brazil, Jordan, and Sri Lanka were deployed, with support from elements of the Chilean air force. Much of the hands-on work of detention and interrogation, noted the AFP, was conducted by "special police units from Jordan and China, as well as Haitian national police."
The estimated 125 Chinese military police assigned to the UN's mission in Haiti are "the first Chinese troops to be deployed to the Western Hemisphere," observed a December 12 report by Communist China's Xinhua News Agency. Obviously negligible in number and offensive capability, the Chinese detachment constitutes a significant symbolic foothold in the Americas. More importantly, China's participation in multinational "peacekeeping" illustrates the extent to which Beijing is cultivating multilateral links--including military ties--with Latin America.
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Source: HighBeam Research, China's presence in Latin America.