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welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Today the two guests mandated by the

invisible impossibly dead gods. Robert Veton will tell us what's going on in

Haiti and Steve Fraser will analyze and mourn the death of the future.

Haiti, which was already coping with intense poverty and chaos, has now fallen even deeper into that morass.

Gangs have largely taken over Port-au-Prince, where they control

60 to 80 percent of the capital city, depending upon whose estimates you follow, and the Prime

Minister, Ariel-Anri, tendered his resignation pending the formation of a transitional

government.

Any new government is likely to be imposed by the U.S. and its Imperial Junior Partners,

just as Henri himself was installed in July 2021, following the assassination of President

Jovina-Mois, an assassination Henri was probably involved in.

There haven't been elections in eight years and even those were profoundly dubious.

For more, we're joined by a frequent behind the news guest, Robert Fattong, a professor of government and foreign affairs

and the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

His 2002 book, Heedies Predatory. in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

His 2002 book, Heed's Predatory Republic, is an excellent primer for understanding how the country,

led by an elite whose major occupations looting the state rather than running a profitable capitalist

economy got to this miserable place. Robert Vatton. The current Prime Minister

Arielle O'Reilly, deeply unpopular and with no legitimacy, agreed to step aside and make way for a transitional government.

There was a conference in Jamaica which Haitian politicians listened into by Zoom,

weird detail, where a group of countries tried to put together a transitional government.

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