Back-to-back crises in Haiti

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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An assassination followed by an earthquake followed by a tropical storm strike a country where aid organizations often have more influence than Haitians. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	It's today explained I'm Halima Shah filling in for Sean Ramasferum.
0:42.2	And it seems like Haiti cannot catch a break.
0:45.4	Just last month the country's president was assassinated.
0:48.4	And just last weekend, a part of the country that people thought was relatively safe was
0:53.0	struck by an earthquake.
0:54.0	We're talking about southern and western Haiti, which is basically an agricultural
1:00.0	rural area.
1:01.7	People often refer to it as the greenest part of Haiti is one of the last places where
1:06.0	you still have a lot of trees.
1:08.4	You don't see the deforestation as deep there as you see in the rest of the country.
1:13.1	Jacqueline Charles is in Haiti for the Miami Herald.
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