Haitian Americans Worry About Relatives Back Home 

NEW YORK - At Radio Soleil, the usual playlist of pulsing Haitian "compas" dance music has been replaced this week with more somber tunes and political analysis as listeners across the diaspora reel from the shock of Haiti President Jovenel Moise's assassination.

Broadcasting from the station's small Brooklyn storefront, director Ricot Dupuy has fielded calls suggesting dark theories about the assassins or sharing fears for a motherland becoming further disarrayed. Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Many of Dupuy's listeners were among the waves of Haitians who fled a country long plagued by the legacy of colonialism, poverty, coups and catastrophic earthquakes. They now live in apartment buildings lining the blocks around the radio station in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood or in Miami's Little Haiti, home to the largest diaspora communities outside the Caribbean. After Moise was killed early Wednesday, they have fretted over the WhatsApp text chats and audio memos they get from relatives back in Haiti who describe being cooped up in their homes as the nation is now all but locked down.