Robert Fatton on the Assassination in Haiti and Its Aftermath
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🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the country of Haiti was rocked by the assassination of its controversial president, Jovenel Moïse, who was killed in a bizarre plot, the details of which are still being uncovered. Moïse's death is yet another shock for a Haitian political system that was already in a state of crisis and has some calling for foreign intervention, a controversial proposal with which Haiti has a long and difficult history.
To discuss these developments, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Professor Robert Fatton, Jr. of the University of Virginia, a native of Haiti and a widely published expert on Haitian politics. They discussed what we know about the assassination plot and what it may mean for the country and region moving forward.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | If you think that the constitutional crisis is complicated, that successful, obviously, |
| 0:41.9 | if you want to use that term assassination, has raised all kinds of issues. |
| 0:47.6 | What we do know from the government side is that you have 28 mercenaries that were part |
| 0:55.5 | of that force that supposedly killed an assassinated prisoner in a very vicious way. |
| 1:03.9 | There were 26 Colombians and there were two Haitian Americans. |
| 1:09.1 | The police said that they've killed three of the Colombians and that they've arrested |
| 1:15.0 | 15 of the Colombians. |
| 1:17.2 | So therefore you have a few more on the loose and it looks like they're going to be captured |
| 1:23.5 | but they're still not in the hands of the police. |
| 1:26.9 | Now I say that this is complicated. |
| 1:29.3 | It's simply in terms of the operation itself. |
| 1:34.6 | What we do know is that there was essentially no security detail in the residence of the |
| 1:43.9 | presidents. |
| 1:45.6 | I'm Scott Ar Anderson and this is the LawFair podcast for July 13, 2021. |
| 1:51.2 | This week the country of Haiti was rocked by the assassination of its controversial |
| 1:54.6 | president, Jovena Moise, who was killed in bizarre plot the details of which are still |
| 1:58.8 | being uncovered. |
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