From New York, this is democracy now.

Big Farmer has charged America in more than three times what they charge other countries,

simply because they could, and I think it's outrageous.

Despite lawsuits from Big Farmer, the Biden administration has announced Medicare will

begin negotiating to bring down the costs of 10 prescription drugs, including ones

used to treat diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

We'll get the latest on the landmark announcement.

Plus, we go to the Dominican Republic to look at the dire living conditions for Haitian

migrant workers and sugar plantations.

They realized that the cheap labor of Haitian seasonal workers was beneficial to the Dominican

economy, dis culminated in the construction of BATES, towns of sugar plantation workers.

These plantations have exploited these cheap labor and forced Haitian seasonal workers

into a modern form of slavery.

As we speak to Democratic Congress member Greg Kassar, just back from a congressional trip

to Columbia, Brazil, and Chile, which will soon mark 50 years since the U.S.-backed military

coup.

Kassar and the other lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to declassify more

documents about the U.S. role in the coup, all that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Soldiers in Gabon declared their seizing power and nullifying recent elections as they

took to national television earlier today.

The general elections of August 26, 2023, as well as the truncated results, are canceled.

...