The Impending U.S. Invasion of Haiti

TODAY'S EPISODE: The Impending U.S. Invasion of
Haiti


GUEST: Jemima Pierre of Black Alliance for Peace


Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and
Department of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles


Jemima Pierre is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research
and teaching interests are located in the overlaps between
African Studies and African Diaspora Studies and engage three
broad areas: race, racial formation theory, and political
economy; culture and the history of anthropological theory; and
transnationalism, globalization, and diaspora. She is the author
of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the
Politics of Race.


BACKGROUND:


On Monday, October 17, Thousands of protesters across Haiti
demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The
protest started hours before the United Nations Security Council
held a split vote over sending an international force to Haiti to
help with deteriorating security and a surge in cholera after
powerful gangs took over the main port and blocked fuel
deliveries.


The government had been awaiting a response to Henry’s recent
request for the international community to help set up a
“specialized armed force” to quell the violence, which has
worsened in the power vacuum created by the 2021 assassination of
President Jovenel Moise.


The United States and Mexico said on October 17 that they are
preparing another UN resolution that would authorize “an
international assistance mission” to help improve security in
crisis-racked Haiti so that humanitarian aid desperately needed
by millions of people can be delivered.


Petrol stations remain closed, hospitals have slashed services
and businesses, including banks and supermarkets, have cut their
hours as everyone across the country runs out of fuel.


FOLLOW OUR GUEST:


Jemima Pierre: https://twitter.com/grosmorne29


Black Alliance for Peace:


https://blackallianceforpeace.com/


https://twitter.com/Blacks4Peace


ADDITIONAL LINKS:


An Open Letter to His Excellency, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador
(AMLO), President of Mexico, on the Renewal of the UN Occupation
of Haiti


The Black Alliance for Peace Opposes Biden Administration’s
Security Council Resolution on Haiti and Calls for its Veto


Frederick Douglas and America Empire in Haiti


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Another
Shock for Haiti


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Haiti
Strikes! An Update on the Situation


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