The United Nations is expected to vote this week on sanctions against a powerful gang leader in Haiti who has blocked supplies of food, fuel and drinking water as the impoverished Caribbean country struggles with a cholera outbreak.
The sanctions resolution, drafted by the U.S. and Mexico, would target gang leader Jimmy Cherizier —known as Barbecue—and others, and would aim to clamp down on illicit arms sales to Haiti.
Ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield , had called Monday for a non-U.N. mission led by a yet-to-be-named country.