The Intelligence: Haiti’s latest nightmare
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Despite growing pressure from powerful local gangs, Ariel Henry, the prime minister, is refusing to step down. The state has descended into such a quagmire that he cannot even return. Can it be brought back from the brink? This year’s Oscar nominations show a newfound appreciation for foreign-language films (07:44). And, a tribute to Iris Apfel (13:52)
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the economist. I'm your host, |
| 0:14.7 | Ora Ogunbiee. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:19.9 | shaping your world. It's the Oscars this weekend. Since Parasite's best |
| 0:27.9 | picture win in 2020, more and more non-English language films have been nominated across the board. |
| 0:34.6 | Could a foreign film win the top prize this year? |
| 0:39.6 | And our obituaries editor pays tribute to the colourful flamboyant fashion icon Iris Apful. But first. Haiti is in a state of chaos once more. In the past week, gangs have overrun the capital, Porto Prince, displacing thousands in the Caribbean |
| 1:24.7 | country of 11.5 million people. They've attacked two prisons, released |
| 1:30.9 | thousands of inmates, and laid siege to the International Airport. |
| 1:37.0 | The gangs have also torched police stations and broken into the country's main port, |
| 1:45.6 | stranding truckloads of much needed humanitarian aid. |
| 1:50.0 | On Thursday, the government extended its state of emergency for another month. |
| 1:56.0 | Haitians say it's hard to leave their homes even to go to work, school or the market. |
| 2:02.0 | I want to sit there I have a critique, |
| 2:05.0 | I have had a culture not functioning, |
| 2:06.0 | population by energy, population, |
| 2:08.0 | population, pit population, |
| 2:09.0 | by the local, but not the area, |
| 2:11.0 | and the violence seems set to continue until one man gives up power. |
| 2:17.0 | Haiti's most prominent gang leader says the surge in violence is targeted at dislodging Prime Minister Ariel Andri. |
| 2:25.3 | Sarah Burke is the economist's Mexico City Bureau Chief. |
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