Haiti Is In Turmoil — But Is International Intervention The Right Solution?
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
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Haiti's government has asked for international assistance. But many Haitians don't want that.
NPR's Eyder Peralta spoke to Haitians who are actively resisting the idea of international intervention.
NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the debate at the United Nations over whether to send an international force into Haiti to help stabilize the situation.
And NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Robert Fatton, a Haitian American professor of politics at the University of Virginia, about Haiti's long, complicated and painful history with international intervention.
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| 0:00.0 | Down with the Prime Minister, down with the occupation. |
| 0:09.0 | These were the words being chanted recently by protesters outside of the French Embassy |
| 0:13.5 | in Port-Aprince, the capital of Haiti. |
| 0:16.3 | Nicholson Pierre was one of the organizers. |
| 0:19.2 | He and fellow demonstrators were protesting against everything, from government, corruption |
| 0:24.1 | and the possibility of foreign intervention in Haiti, to the seeming and punty criminal |
| 0:28.9 | gangs enjoy in the country. |
| 0:30.9 | So today the population is left on its own and depends it's out of law. |
| 0:38.9 | Today the country is going to the slaughterhouse. |
| 0:45.9 | Haiti has been in turmoil for decades. |
| 0:48.5 | We're breaking news from Haiti where the country's president is dead this morning, assassinated |
| 0:52.9 | but the assassination of President Javanel Moise last year pushed the Caribbean country further |
| 0:59.3 | into crisis. |
| 1:00.7 | Haiti's current Prime Minister, Ariel Henri, has been accused of being involved in planning |
| 1:05.7 | Moise's murder. |
| 1:07.7 | Henri has denied any involvement. |
| 1:10.6 | And conditions in the country seem especially dire. |
| 1:14.4 | Electricity and clean drinking water are in very short supply. |
| 1:17.9 | There's been an outbreak of cholera. |
| 1:19.9 | Both the population in Haiti is facing acute hunger. |
| 1:23.7 | And for the last few months, a coalition of gangs block the country's main seaport |
| 1:28.8 | and the massive fuel depots that keep Haiti going. |
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