Haiti - Descent Into Anarchy

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

With criminal gangs now controlling most of Haiti's capital and no function government, Mike Thomson explores what caused this spiralling descent to Anarchy in this predominately Christian, Caribbean country, where more than half its eleven million French and Creole speaking people live below the poverty line. Mike looks for answers with help from Haitians, experts and political leaders who’ve lived through many of their nation’s recent social upheavals and natural disasters.

Producer: Ed Prendeville BBC Audio in Cardiff

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. gun totting gangs rather than politicians now call the shots in many parts of Haiti's capital Porto Prince, a city under attack from within.
1:07.0	There is a terror system now organized by the gangs?
1:12.8	Right now Haiti is like a war zone.
1:15.2	It's not safe for anyone.
1:18.0	We have dead people in the street which is God are eating them.
1:22.0	What we have now is almost a republic control by gangs.
1:26.0	There is no government, no parliament, and no justice system.
1:32.0	I've reported from troubled Haiti many times in the past, but the
1:36.2	terrifying situation facing people there now is beyond comparison. Ralph
1:42.0	runs a private ambulance company in Porto Prince.
1:45.0	I did not drive to work this morning. I stay at my workplace because when I was going to go home,
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