Guest Co-Host:

Yoav Elinevsky, Latin America Working Group coordinator for Massachusetts Peace Action

Guests:

Pierre LaBossiere, Haitian born and from the region hit hardest by Saturday's earthquake. He is a veteran labor and human rights activist, a co-founder of Haiti Action Committee and a board member of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

Robert Roth, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. Robert was a high school history teacher in San Francisco for 30 years and is now an instructional coach for new teachers. He was active in the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s and 1990s and has worked for years to free political prisoners in the United States.

Background:

On Saturday, August 14 a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti in the southwest region of the country destroying more than 7,000 homes and damaging nearly 5,000 leaving about thirty thousand families homeless. Hospitals, schools, offices and churches also were demolished or badly damaged. The quake wiped out many of the sources of food and income upon which the population is dependent. The earthquake struck a nation still struggling with the corona virus, gang violence and the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

In partnership with Friends of Latin America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, original broadcasts of WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean can be viewed every Wednesday at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on CODEPINK YouTube Live