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Biden says sending U.S. forces to Haiti "not on the agenda at this moment"
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Washington — President Biden said Thursday that sending American forces to Haiti "is not on the agenda at this moment." Haiti had asked the U.S. and U.N. for military forces to help secure the nation's major infrastructure in the wake of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse days ago.
Mr. Biden told reporters at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the U.S. is only sending American Marines to the embassy in Haiti to make sure it's "secure and nothing is out of whack at all." At the same time, Cuba has recently seen a wave of protests over food shortages, rising prices, and the government's failure to arrest rapidly spiking COVID-19 infections. Asked about Cuba and communism by CBS News Radio White House correspondent Steven Portnoy, Mr. Biden said, "Communism is a failed system. A universally failed system. And I don't see socialism as a very useful substitute."![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250216030556.jpg)
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