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The U.S. Could Still Do What's Right for Haiti / Jake Johnson

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Center for Economic and Policy Research's Jake Johnston on his opinion piece at The New York Times, “The U.S. Still Can Do What’s Right for Haiti.” Afterwards, Rotten History explores the Erfurt Latrine Disaster. Support This is Hell! at https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

You're welcome, you'll

0:05.0

You're welcome to you. You're welcome welcome Neil.

0:17.0

This is hell.

0:24.1

Yes.

0:25.1

Is hell.

0:26.1

Oke-Doke.

0:29.9

Your eyewitness to grief, this is hell and there's nothing quite like the grief that

0:37.7

the people of Haiti have suffered through ever since 1804 when it became the first free black republic in the world, the first

0:45.5

independent state in the Caribbean and the second independent state in the Western hemisphere

0:49.4

after the United States.

0:51.8

That grief continues to this very day. Since the 2021 assassination of

0:57.3

Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, there has been much speculation about a bigger conspiracy to overthrow his government, a plan

1:05.9

that the FBI apparently knew about according to documents related to the case.

1:10.4

There also seems to be a Miami-based security firm involved.

1:14.0

The DEA was apparently knowledgeable of the coup as well.

1:18.0

Coo plotters have been arrested and they await trial,

1:22.0

which will happen sometime next year, three years after the assassination.

1:27.0

But why does the US have so much interest in Haiti?

1:30.0

Why has it had so much interest in Haiti? An impoverished country that seems in the midst of

1:35.8

perpetual violence and climate catastrophe. And what's the likelihood that yet again the U.S.

1:41.3

will insist that the only possible response is a military

1:46.7

one to protect secure and serve the people while stabilizing the nation by adding

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