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Episode 221 Promo - This is Revolution (w/ Pascal Robert)

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This week, Briahna speaks to co-host of This is Revolution Podcast Pascal Robert about the extreme unrest in Haiti. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is implicated in the assassination of Haiti's last president, Jovenel Moïse, is calling for international forces to help suppress paramilitary "gangs" in the country, and the US state department seems all to willing to oblige. But the people of Haiti feel differently -- still distrustful of the US for, among other reasons, it's connection to the assassination of Moïse, and the UN's introduction of a cholera epidemic after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Pascal walks us through the players and interests on the ground in Haiti so that we can follow the story knowledgeably as it progresses. We also touch on the Black diaspora's response to the Queen of England's death, and the reactionary, listless posture of the left in the US.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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0:00.0

Part of the problem is that Weston powers, I have aligned themselves either for economic reasons

0:06.5

or for geostrategic reasons with those forces that have been able to put a cap on the aspirations

0:12.8

of the majority of the people in order to maintain what they consider security.

0:16.9

My question, my position is simply is that I'm very sympathetic to the demands people have for

0:22.5

security, but what has been the track record in the past? It's confusing because, okay, I'm just

0:28.0

really trying to keep all these moving pieces straight. If again, these gangs and the instability

0:33.7

that they're causing is in some ways not even possible at least at this extent without being

0:40.9

sourced by some outside funding, whether it's the elite political class or kind of mercantile

0:46.5

class in Haiti or the United States. What is the expectation from US intervention? If they're

0:54.9

already on some level, I guess that I'm asking pulling the strings, then what's the goal of the

0:59.3

United States in having boots on the ground? One of the things that the goal is to make sure that

1:05.4

whatever the next political administration that is controlling the affairs of Haiti is put in power

1:10.0

is in line with what the State Department and the core group of associated embassies want to

1:15.0

make sure it happens. So you think there's an acknowledgement and acceptance that are

1:18.7

all on reason as way out and that they're just in the process of picking somebody new as

1:22.9

to that like pacify the. I mean, based on the nature of his mandate, I think there's no question

1:27.5

he's going to be at at some point. The question is on what terms and in terms of who's going to

1:32.0

replace them when that becomes the case. I think there's no question that that's the reality,

1:36.7

but I think that the United States is more interested in how the country is governed after

1:41.7

our elite that is willing to let itself be held on to. Don't forget, there's other interesting

1:46.9

United States has, whenever there's instability in Haiti, there's immigration issues, there's all

1:51.2

kinds of instability that goes about it in terms of its neighbors. It's not exactly appealing

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