"It is clear that the security conditions are not met at the level for us to have elections in August," Fils-Aimé said in an interview broadcast Monday on Magik9 radio in Haiti and reported by Reuters.

Vendors working for the controversial immigration detention facility in the Everglades were reportedly told that it would shut down next month, according to the New York Times and CBS News.

The senator's letter was sent the same day the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that the impact of armed conflict on civilians in Colombia over the past year has been the worst in a decade.