Heine Explores the Americas’ Response to Haitian Crisis
On August 24, 2023, Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, published an op-ed in La Tercera, a leading Chilean publication, on the current humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
Heine expressed frustration at the lack of response from North, Central and South American countries to respond to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Haiti. Invoking a prior United Nations mission to Haiti, which Heine argues stabilized the country and set it on a path to progress, he called on Chile and other Latin American countries to step up once again and bring Haiti to order.
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Ambassador Jorge Heine is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007), and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. Read more about Ambassador Heine on his Pardee School faculty profile.