The statement was issued just days after gangs launched a pre-dawn attack Tuesday around an upper-class community in Haiti’s capital, forcing residents armed with machetes and guns to fight side-by-side with police to repel gunmen.

Seven months after the council member’s bold declaration — and five months after the first contingent of foreign police officers from Kenya arrived in Haiti — the dusty highway through Martissant remains the “road of death.” Gangs shoot at anyone ...

As gangs escalate violence in Haiti, the UN Security Council debates upgrading the current security mission to a peacekeeping force despite opposition from Russia and China.