Haiti's president was just assassinated. This comes after years of protest, police brutality, and political corruption in the country.
How we got here, explained in 5 minutes.
How we got here, explained in 5 minutes.
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00:00**MUSIC**
00:19**HELICOPTER**
00:21**GIGGLE**
00:23I
00:50don't think anybody in their right mind believes that there was a coup d'etat in Haiti. The whole
00:58operation, the arrest, etc., have been carried totally illegally, according to the constitution.
01:20The riots that happened in July 2018, three days where thousands of youths just
01:34took to the streets asking for jobs, for health care, for education opportunities.
01:50We mobilized ourselves, we are here today to fight back because we are suffering too much.
02:09It is a festering crisis that has been going on for decades because Haiti is a very unequal
02:34society. So until you actually resolve that problem or at least make inroads towards getting
02:43everybody access to health care, education, jobs, etc., you will continue. It's kind of like you
02:51will put a band-aid, but it will fester again.
03:02Since early 2020, we have been without a parliament. There are 10 members of the
03:09parliament who were totally silent for the last year. And so there are no elected officials,
03:17except Jovenel Moïse, who was elected by less than 18 percent of the population.
03:23There are no mayors throughout the country because he removed all of them once their term expired.
04:18So, we need to have elections. And the program that needs to be put in place
04:34needs to be very strong in terms of health, in terms of education, in terms of job,
04:42decent jobs, because we have 54 percent of the population that's under 24 percent.
04:50And you actually need to invest in the human capital if you need to make any inroads into
04:57the future, into Haiti becoming, yes, I'm dreaming, a middle-income country,
05:03and then moving forward. So that is the aim of the pro-democracy movement.