Caribbean
Excessive Force
Critics of NATO policy once wanted its forces to shoot to kill at skiffs suspected of piracy, just as U.S. forces now do at suspected drug boats. But drug mules are not pirates.
Haiti’s Dangerous Crossroads
A Caribbean nation of 11 million, sharing the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, Haiti has rarely known a period free of political tumult in its 217-year history. But the last year was different.