Jake Johnston is Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and has been the leading writer for the center’s Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch website since February 2010, just weeks after a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, ABC News, Boston Review, Truthout, The Intercept, and elsewhere. He grew up in Portland, Maine, and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Haiti’s state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels fr... SEE MORE