A Shameful Show in Haiti

NYT Editorial: "Haiti, torn by weeks of unrest and decades of misgovernment, badly needs its newly appointed prime minister, G�rard Latortue, to succeed. Yet Mr. Latortue did himself no favors on Saturday by going out of his way to embrace some of the unsavory thugs who helped oust the country's last elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Successive Haitian governments have compromised their own legitimacy by using criminal gangs as enforcers. Mr. Latortue needs to end this disastrous pattern, not perpetuate it.

Haiti's new prime minister should end the tradition of associating with criminal gangs that has compromised the country's governments in the past."