An assassination, and the future of Haiti

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

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Summary

The assasination of Haiti’s president. And, a controversy over drug policies and Olympic athletes.

Last night, Jovenel Moïse, the president of Haiti, was assassinated in his private residence by a group of gunmen. Anthony Faiola reports on the Caribbean country’s political instability, growing gang violence, and what Moïse’s assassination means.

Track star Sha’Carri Richardson has been suspended from competition for one month and won’t be able to compete in the Olympics after a positive marijuana test. Anne Branigin explains the backlash and debates over drug and doping rules in sports sparked by the suspension.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Posts Sarah Kaplan.
0:12.0	Hi, this is Alaheiz Adi with the Washington Post.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:17.0	I'm Martin Powers.
0:19.0	It's Wednesday, July 7.
0:24.0	Today, the assassination of Hades President.
0:29.0	This a controversy over drug policies and Olympic athletes.
0:38.0	Last night, an assassination took place in Haiti.
0:44.0	The president has been killed.
0:47.0	The first lady was wounded.
0:49.0	We believe with two gunshots.
0:51.0	Anthony Fiole is the South America and Caribbean Bureau Chief for the Post.
0:56.0	He has been covering the turmoil in Haiti and what led up to the killing of President Jovenelle Moise.
1:02.0	What we know in terms of what the acting prime minister has said is that armed gunmen stormed the president's private residents in the hills above Port-au-Prince,
1:15.0	a little after 1 a.m. in the morning.
1:18.0	We've spoken to eyewitnesses in the area who heard mail-aids of gunfire from what sounded like very heavy machine gunfire.
1:29.0	That lasted for over an hour, usually in segments of intense rapid fires for 10 minutes and then things would calm down.
1:40.0	And then there would be another round of assault weapons fired.
1:45.0	So what do we know about who carried out this attack and why they would or could want the president of Haiti to be dead?
2:05.0	That is still being unraveled. What the prime minister did say was that they could overhear some of the attackers speaking in Spanish and English.
2:15.0	There are also videos and audio circulating of a man speaking in English with an American Southern accent who claims to be from the DEA.
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