Hello, this is moderate rebels.

I'm Ben Norton.

As always, joined by my co-host Max Blumenthal,

and today we are talking about the crisis going on in Haiti.

On July 7th, the president of Haiti,

Jovina Mouinéh Mouis, was assassinated.

And although Jovanemois was really a dictator, he had dissolved

the legislature, he was running by dictate, and he was totally backed by the U.S. government, the U.S.

and the so-called core group, the Western imperialist countries that have control over Haiti, they did

approve of pretty much everything

that he did, Moise, but he also apparently got in the way of some local oligarchs and

there was an internal political conflict and they killed him.

And in this episode today, we're going to be talking with two experts on Haiti, and we're going to discuss

why Moise was assassinated, who potentially could have done it, what they would have to gain

from it, and what the future of Haiti could look like.

I mean, this is a country that has been tortured for 200 years by foreign meddling, imperialism, neocolonialism.

It has been tortured. The people of Haiti have been punished for 200 years for leading

the first successful slave uprising to overthrow slavery and end French colonialism.

And now, of course, there is a kind of U.S. neocolonialism today.

So joining us to talk about this today is Nazelle Sanfou.

He is a Haitian journalist and agronomist.

And unfortunately, as you'll see in this interview, we were talking to him from Haiti.

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