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Amanpour

Can Haiti be saved?

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The beleaguered country of Haiti now stands on the verge of complete collapse. In September, armed gangs seized a critical fuel terminal -- placing a stranglehold on food, water and power. Hospitals are shutting down. Millions of Haitians face food deprivation. Earlier this month, Haiti's transitional leader, Ariel Henry, requested an armed intervention by international forces, to restore peace and some security. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the UN is preparing a resolution in support of an assistance mission. But so far, no country has stepped up to lead. Why is that? Sara is joined by Haiti's Ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond.  Also on today's show: Dr. Manfret McGhee, father of St. Louis high school shooting victim; Kimberly Mutcherson, Co-Dean, Rutgers University Law School; Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Ammonpour. Here's what's coming up. A country on the verge of collapse. What can save Haiti?

0:14.6

I ask its ambassador to the US, Boesheed Edmond.

0:18.4

Then, this was the perfect storm for a mass shoot. Horror on repeat, yet another U.S. school shooting this week, this time in St. Louis, Missouri.

0:29.0

I speak to school administrator Monfreet McGee who survived but found his own son shot and

0:35.0

injured. Plus in the end one of the things that we are inevitably going to see as

0:40.4

a consequence of Dobbs is more dead women and more dead babies.

0:45.0

Co-dean of Rutgers Law School Kimberly Mutterson talks to Michelle Martin about the ripple

0:49.8

effects of America's ever tightening abortion laws.

0:53.7

And finally, it was a way of using literature

1:00.3

to seduce people, you know? The lauded Latin American author Mario Vargas Yossa.

1:06.0

We bring you a conversation with the Nobel Prize winner about the art of writing

1:11.0

and his latest work, a children's book. Welcome to the program. I'm Sarah Sidner in New York sitting in for Christiane Amanpur.

1:33.2

The beleaguered country of Haiti now stands on the verge of complete collapse.

1:38.7

The government is paralyzed by compounding crises, intense armed gang violence, an economy at a

1:44.9

standstill and now a cholera outbreak which is caused by contaminated food or

1:49.6

water and is spreading through its poorest neighborhoods.

1:53.7

The assassination of President Jovinele Moise last year created a leadership vacuum that allowed

1:59.1

gangs to grab power there.

2:01.3

In September, armed gangs seized a critical fuel terminal placing a stranglehold

2:06.7

on food, water, and power. Hospitals are shutting down. Millions of Haitians face food deprivation.

2:15.0

Earlier this month,

2:17.0

Haiti's transitional leader, Ariel Henry,

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