Journalist Kim Ives speaks with Haitian podcaster and YouTuber Ralph Laurent (Max Louissaint) of Live Tanbou Verite a (Live Truth Drum) to discuss the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) deployment, the continuing massacres of the poor in Port-au-Prince being carried out by Erik Prince’s Vectus Global mercenaries with the Haitian National Police (PNH), the status of the Viv Ansanm (Live Together) armed group coalition headed by Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the situation of Haitians with TPS, and the upcoming fifth anniversary of Jovenel Moïse’s Jul. 7, 2021 assassination.
Content note: Kim Ives misspoke at one point saying that the Pentagon’s Operation Southern Spear had killed over 200 people. He meant that they have extrajudicially killed to date 215 people while illegally blowing up 66 boats.
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