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Hello and

and Hello and to to angry planet. I'm Jason Fields. Matthew Galt is hiding around

here somewhere but I'll be damned if I can find him. Anyway, life in Haiti has rarely been easy.

It's the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Corruption is rampant, and it's been invaded more than once since independence, including by the United States.

It's little wonder that the Half Island Nation has suffered repression and political turmoil.

And on July 7th, its president, Jovenel Moise was assassinated.

To help us understand the current situation and a bit of the history as well. I'm joined by

Francois Pierre Louis of Queens College in New York. Thank you so much for coming on the

show. You're welcome. Thank you for inviting me.

Can you take us through a little bit of what happened a few weeks ago and what led up to

it? In fact, I think this crisis began severely on February 7th, 2020, when President JobNeluiz shot down parliament and began to rule by decree.

So as of 2020, we only had 11 elected officials in all the country.

You had no parliament, you had no local officials.

The mayors that were elected locally,

they were, their terms were over,

and there was no interim election to renew

their term and then on February 7th 2021 he was supposed to live office.

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