How U.S. Hijacked Haiti's Democracy

Kenya is leading a UN-backed security mission to Haiti to ‘restore order’. But, as always, the US is behind the scenes pulling the strings.

We spoke with Haitian-American professor Dr Jemima Pierre to make sense of what’s going on. The mission’s official goal is to combat gang violence ravaging the Caribbean island. But according to Dr Pierre, it’s just more interference by the US that authored the resolution and has sought to control the resource-rich Island for decades.

As an example, she runs through what happened in Haiti’s 2010 elections where the US pushed their man into power.