Podcast: How Haiti got here

Two people stand amid piles of broken concrete and a collapsed building
A 2010 earthquake was a devastating blow to Haiti. However its issues predate that pure catastrophe.
(Los Angeles Instances)

When an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, the worldwide group pledged billions of dollars towards restoration. A lot of that help by no means went to rebuilding Haiti — and even to the Haitian individuals. However Haiti’s instability goes again even additional. Actually, it has quite a bit to do with outdoors political forces relationship again to the nation’s origin story because the world’s first Black republic.

At the moment, Episode 4 of “Line within the Land,” a podcast from Texas Public Radio and the Houston Chronicle. We’ll be again with Episode 5 subsequent Tuesday. We’re airing an episode from “Line within the Land” each Tuesday by means of the top of August.

Learn the total transcript right here.

Host: Joey Palacios with Texas Public Radio and Elizabeth Trovall with the Houston Chronicle.

Extra studying:

Haiti’s wrestle has worsened within the 12 months because the slaying of its president

As Haiti reels from crises, U.S. coverage selections are known as into query

Op-Ed: The West owes a centuries-old debt to Haiti

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