GUILTY Haiti President Jovenel Moise assassinated in attack on his residence, July 2021

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Haiti President Jovenel Moise killed in an attack on his residence - CNN
''(CNN)Haiti's President Jovenel Moise was killed during an attack on his private residence early on Wednesday, according to the country's acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph.

Joseph said in a statement that a group of unidentified individuals attacked Moise's home at around 1 a.m. and fatally wounded the head of state. The statement does not specify how the President was killed. Haiti's first lady was shot and is receiving treatment, he added.
The Prime Minister called the assassination a "heinous, inhumane and barbaric act" and called for calm.
"The security situation in the country is under the control of the Haitian National Police and the Haitian Armed Forces," the statement added. "All measures are being taken to guarantee the continuity of the State and to protect the Nation."
 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-president-jovenal-moise-shot-killed-1.6092745
''The assassination coincided with a wave of gang violence in the capital Port-au-Prince as armed groups have battled with police and one another for control of the streets in recent months, turning many districts of the capital into no-go zones.

The 53-year-old president's wife, Martine Moise, was also shot in the attack that took place around 1 a.m. local time and was receiving medical treatment, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in a statement.

"A group of unidentified individuals, some of them speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus fatally wounded the head of state," he said.

Gunshots heard in capital
In his statement, Joseph said the police and army had the security situation under control, but gunshots could be heard throughout the capital after the attack. The Dominican Republic said it was closing the border it shares with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.

With Haiti politically divided, and facing a growing humanitarian crisis and shortages of food, there are fears of widespread disorder.''
 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/haiti-president-jovenal-moïse-shot-killed-1.6092745
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''After chairing a cabinet meeting, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in televised remarks that the government had declared a two-week state of emergency as it launched a manhunt for the killers.

Authorities in the country, where the majority of people speak French or Haitian Creole, said the gunmen spoke English and Spanish, and appeared to include foreigners.

"My compatriots, remain calm because the situation is under control," Joseph said in his address, backed by a row of sombre-faced officials. "This blow has wounded this country, this nation, but it will not go unpunished."

Slain leader's wife in critical condition
Moïse's wife, Martine, was also shot in the attack at around 1 a.m. local time at the couple's home in the hills above Port-au-Prince. She is in critical condition and efforts are underway to bring her to Miami for treatment, according to Haiti's ambassador to the United States.

In videos circulating on social media that Reuters was not able to verify, the gunmen — whose faces cannot be made out — could be heard yelling that they were with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as they entered the 53-year-old president's guarded residence under cover of nightfall before bursts of gunfire rang out.''
 
Live updates: Police arrested suspected assassins of Haitian president, communications secretary says
''Haiti's Communications Secretary Frantz Exantus tweeted Wednesday that local police had arrested the "presumed" assassins of President Jovenel Moïse.''

"So far this looks like an execution and not a coup d'état"
Prior to the assassination, an organized crime leader, Jimmy Cherizier, had called on gangs to take on the government, ostensibly over its failure to reduce poverty.

"So far this looks like an execution and not a coup d'état," Jean-Max Bellerive, a former Haitian prime minister, told The Wall Street Journal.

On Monday, Moïse had named a new prime minister, Ariel Henry, who the paper described as having "close ties to opposition leaders."

"It could start looking like a coup d'état if the interim prime minister [Claude Joseph] starts taking charge of everything without trying to achieve consensus," Bellerive said.''
 
Haiti police kill four in fight with suspected killers of president Jovenel Moïse
''Haiti’s security forces have killed four members of a group of “mercenaries” who assassinated President Jovenel Moïse in his home, police chief Leon Charles has said.

“The police is still in combat with the assailants,” Charles said in a televised briefing late on Wednesday, saying that two of the attackers had been detained. Of the rest he said: “They will be killed or captured”.

Haiti’s communications secretary, Frantz Exantus, had earlier said police had arrested the “presumed assassins” without providing any further details. Three police officers held hostage by the suspected gunmen were freed late Wednesday, Charles said.''
 
Two Haitian Americans in custody after president's killing, minister says | Toronto Sun
“We have the physical authors, now we are looking for the intellectual authors,” Charles said.

Two Haitian Americans were among those detained, Haiti’s minister of elections and interparty relations, Mathias Pierre, told Reuters. He identified one of them as James Solages, a U.S. citizen of Haitian descent, but did not name the other.''

 
Florida entrepreneur accused by Haiti of taking part in Jovenel Moïse killing
July 9 2021
''The government has so far produced no evidence against Solages. The US state department has said it was aware of reports of Americans being arrested but was not able to confirm their identities.

Speaking to the Haitian Times at his home in Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale, Solages’s uncle Schubert Dorisme said that the businessman had recently become a US citizen, but aspired to become mayor of his home town, the southern Haitian port of Jacmel, and strongly opposed Moïse.

“He used to tell me, ‘This Jovenel guy is crazy,’” Dorisme, a 63-year-old bus driver, said. But he added: “I don’t think he’s capable to do this thing, I think somebody used him.

“He was not steady,” Dorisme said. “He was a good boy, but I wouldn’t call him a man.”

As well as running a building firm, Solages, 35, is the president of the board of a charity called Fwa Sa A Jacmel Avan (Creole for This Time Jacmel First), which claims to combat child hunger in the southern town.

The organisation’s website was taken down on Thursday, but his archived biography page described him as “a youth leader and an advocate for underprivileged kids” but also “a politician promoting his country by focusing on compassion”.

The website showed Solages surrounded by Haitian children under the words “rebuild Haiti”. The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that the organisation raised $11,000 in 2019.''
 
July 9 2021
U.S., Colombia sending agents to Haiti to help probe president's killing | Toronto Sun
''Investigators in Colombia discovered that 17 of the suspects had retired from Colombia’s army between 2018 and 2020, armed forces commander General Luis Fernando Navarro told journalists on Friday.

Jorge Luis Vargas, director of Colombia’s national police, said initial investigations had shown that 11 Colombian suspects had traveled to Haiti via the resort city of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

Two others traveled via air to Panama, before flying to Dominican capital Santo Domingo and then Port-au-Prince, Vargas said.''
 
July 13 2021
Former DEA informant arrested in Haiti assassination identified | Toronto Sun
''WASHINGTON — Two U.S. government sources on Tuesday identified the former Drug Enforcement Administration informant accused of taking part in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise as Joseph Vincent, 55, of Florida.

Vincent and a second Haitian-American Florida resident, James Solages, 35, have been arrested by Haitian officials and charged with taking part in last week’s attack. The men told investigators they had been hired to serve as interpreters on a team dominated by 26 Colombians, another source said.''

“These individuals were not acting on behalf of DEA,” the agency official said''

''Few details have emerged about Vincent’s life in the United States. The Miami Herald reported that Vincent became a DEA informant after being arrested more than 20 years ago for filing false information on a U.S. passport application.''
 
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