Our ambassador to Haiti is blowing it

.... at least that's the takeaway from this column by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, who covers Latin America for the Wall Street Journal. She writes:

In a moment last week when Haitians were struggling to overcome yet another misfortune—this time a fraudulent election—the U.S. State Department's top honcho for the region, Arturo Valenzuela, put his energy elsewhere. He went to Tegucigalpa where he spent two days trying to force the Honduran government to drop criminal charges against deposed president Manuel Zelaya.

Very few U.S. administrations have gotten much accomplished when it comes to Haiti, but it would be nice if the present one would try.

(Readers who would like to help the situation in Haiti might consider making a donation to Hands Together for Haiti, or Samaritan's Purse.)