Americas collective amnesia in Haiti
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How the killing of Haiti\\u2019s former president has sparked a constitutional crisis \\u2014 and how years of U.S. intervention in the Caribbean country contributed to the chaos we\\u2019re seeing now.
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The assasination of Haitian President Jovenel Mo\\xefse last week has plunged the country into turmoil, with many unanswered questions left surrounding the attack. The Post\\u2019s Widlore Merancourt and Ishaan Tharoor report on what\\u2019s known so far about the investigation into killing and what a vacuum of power could mean for the safety and security of Haitians.
The international response to Haiti\\u2019s political crisis is made more complicated by the legacy of slavery, colonialism and U.S. occupation \\u2014 and that shapes how we understand the country today. \\u201cHaiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere because of \\u2014 not despite \\u2014 foreign intervention,\\u201d anthropologist Mark Schuller says in this episode. \\u201cSlaveholders punished Haiti for their role in ending slavery.\\u201d
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