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Update to the Assassination of Haiti's President
A little under a week after the assassination of President Moïse, Haitian police have made several arrests. Catherine Porter, Toronto Bureau Chief for the New York Times and and author of the memoir A Girl Named Lovely (Simon & Schuster, 2019) about her experience in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake, and Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D., professor in and Associate Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, join to update us on the ongoing investigations and break down the history that got us here.