What We Know: Two Years After the Assassination of Haitian President M...

On July 7th, 2021, a group of men entered the Port-au-Prince home of Jovenel Moïse, the then president of Haiti. They killed him and in gravely injured his wife, First Lady Martine Moïse. Today’s guest has been following the investigation into the individuals charged in relation to the conspiracy.

In his recent op-ed for the New York Times, Jake Johnston writes, “The investigation … present[s] an opportunity not just to address a long legacy of impunity and injustice in Haiti but also to reset US-Haiti relations, which have long been subject to political interference and interventionism.”

Jake Johnston joins host Allen Ruff to discuss the investigation and the future of US-Haiti relations.

Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He has a B.A. in Economics from Boston University and an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. At CEPR his research has focused predominantly on economic policy in Latin America, the International Monetary Fund and U.S. foreign policy. He is the lead author for CEPR’s Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch blog and his articles and op-eds have been published in outlets such as the New York Times, The Nation, The Intercept, Le Monde Diplomatique, Boston Review, and Al Jazeera. His book, Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press.

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