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Amy Wilentz

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Contributing editor @TheNation | National Book Critics Circle winner for memoir | Guggenheim fellow. I write about Haiti, Middle East, & CA. UCI LitJ prof.

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Right now, those gangs are running —into the ground—with little push-back from a terrified police force, while people who've been trying to move toward a political settlement are forced into the CARICOM spectacle of organizing a notional & probably impotent interim govt.

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All of this while former ambassador White chats on the phone with Guy Philippe, former 2004 coup leader & convicted money launderer who has joined up with a paramilitary gang after being cynically deported by the U.S. into the Haitian maelstrom in November.

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