A New Haitian Revolution?

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been compelled to resign as armed gangs tighten their grip on the nation's capital, seizing control of police stations, the main international airport, and freeing thousands of prisoners. This week on Deconstructed, researcher and writer Jake Johnston, who has spent more than a decade reporting on Haiti, joins Ryan Grim to discuss the latest wave of violence hitting the country and the events that led to it. Johnston’s new book, “Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti,” details how U.S. and European goals have continuously undermined the nation’s governance and economy. Johnston is also the senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research where he leads Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch.

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0:24.0	Capital at risk internet banking customers only, account fees and charges apply. I'm Ryan Grim.
0:35.0	I'm Ryan Grimm.
0:37.0	Welcome to Deconsstructed and today on the show we're joined by Jake Johnston.
0:42.0	He's the author of the new book Aid State,
0:44.8	Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti.
0:49.5	Jake, thanks so much for joining me.
0:51.5	Thanks for having me. having me.
0:53.0	And so this was a conversation we've been planning for quite some time, but it turns out that you've
0:57.8	published your book on Haiti, you know, quite into the news firestorm, which seems like happens every what three to ten years
1:05.9	you've written for the intercept a bunch in the past I've been following your great
1:09.7	work for a long time so this is something that you've seen unfold. What's the timeline? How often does Haiti
1:14.7	pop into the news? Yeah certainly there's been a bit of a cycle. We've seen this happen time and again. Each decade there's been a big
1:22.1	a big event that has certainly captured the world's
1:24.4	attention in regard to Haiti and there's sort of a contrast there with the moments of intense
1:31.3	attention and then far longer periods of total silence.
1:37.0	Let's set the stage a little bit. Let's start around the earthquake and also the election of 2010.
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