Ansel Herz has updated his latest Mediahacker post: Wikileaks, Cablegate and Haiti. Excerpt (his bolding):
A just-released 2008 cable from the American Embassy in Brasilia includes commentary about MINUSTAH, the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti led by Brazil:
“Brazil has stayed the course as leader of MINUSTAH in Haiti despite a lack of domestic support for the PKO (peacekeeping operation). The MRE (Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations) has remained committed to the initiative because it believes that the operation serves (Foreign Minister) FM Amorim’s obsessive international goal of qualifying Brazil for a seat on the UN Security Council.”
Click through to Herz's site for a link to more discussion of this cable about MINUSTAH.
