Polk Award Winners: Maria Abi-Habib

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

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Maria Abi-Habib is the bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for the New York Times. Along with her colleague Frances Robles, Abi-Habib won the George Polk Award for revealing concealed aspects of the murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. “We’re not going to stop covering Haiti just because you don’t like us … at the end of the day you owe it to your citizens to talk to the media because if you can’t talk to the media and actually answer some questions, how are you going to run a country? We’re not doing this for ourselves, we’re doing this because we think that Haiti matters and we think Haitians, like all citizens in this world, actually deserve some answers to their questions and to know what the truth is.” This is the second in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.8	Hello and welcome to the long-form podcast.
0:51.2	I'm one of the co-hosts, Evan Ratliffe.
0:53.5	This week we're doing a series of interviews with winners of the George Polk Journalism Awards.
0:58.6	And today I spoke to Maria Abihabib.
1:02.2	She is the New York Times bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
1:07.0	She won the award this year along with her colleague, Francis Robles, and the time staff
1:13.5	for a series of stories about the assassination of Haiti's president, Jovenelle Moise.
1:19.8	Just to give you a little background for these stories, Moise was gunned down in his home in July of 2021.
1:27.3	And the story about who might be behind it unfolded over many months culminating in this very long story by Maria
1:35.2	in which she uncovered a huge amount of new information both on Moise and on the murder,
1:41.6	including the fact that he had compiled a list of suspected high-level drug traffickers in Haiti
1:48.0	and was threatening to act on that list.
1:50.7	She discovered connections to both the former president whose name is Michelle Martelli
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