On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss the unfolding humanitarian and political crisis in Haiti.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti this year, according to the UN. Haiti also faces an ongoing humanitarian crisis, with UNICEF warning that "countless children" could die due to malnutrition and a lack of health care. Nearly five million people -- almost half the country's population -- have been driven into "high levels of acute food insecurity" since a surge in gang-linked violence, according to a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
Guests:
Amy Wilentz, contributing editor at The Nation
Wethzer Piercin, reporter at AyiboPost
Resources:
The Nation: Haiti’s Hour of Deliverance or Despair
AyiboPost: Many of the victims lived in camps, after being forced to flee gang violence
AyiboPost: Exclusive | What really happened at the Haitian National Penitentiary?
The Washington Post: The history of foreign intervention in Haiti is ugly
The Washington Post: How the gang leader ‘Barbecue’ became one of Haiti’s most powerful men
