The Washington Post in an editorial has called for UN intervention in Haiti.
The president’s death plunged Haiti deeper into uncertainty. Haiti currently has no parliament, which was dissolved last year, but it does have two prime ministers — one who recently resigned and the other, Dr. Ariel Henry, newly appointed by the president.
The pre-dawn assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse puts one of the Western Hemisphere’s most impoverished countries at risk of anarchy. That poses an immediate humanitarian threat to millions of Haitians and an equally urgent diplomatic and security challenge to the United States and major international organizations. Swift and muscular intervention is needed.
His death is likely to trigger a power vacuum that would only accelerate the spiral of mayhem in the absence of almost any current elected office-holders with a claim to political legitimacy. Even Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, himself in office just three months, was about to be replaced by an obscure neurosurgeon nominated by Mr. Moïse the day before he was killed. Simply put, there is no one with any real authority in position to run the country. And Mr. Joseph’s assertion on Wednesday that order will be maintained by Haiti’s police and army, who have proved impotent or complicit in the face of growing disorder, is anything but reassuring.
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Initial disinformation on little credible data appears to try to point the cause of the assassination in Haiti in the direction of the failed 2020 invasion of Venezuela. We’ll know more soon. There is an initial claim that the assassins claimed they were DEA agents including an Anglo who spoke “in a southern accent”.
After numerous postponements, partly owing to the effects of another devastating hurricane, elections were eventually held in November 2016.[204][205] The victor, Jovenel Moïse of the Haitian Tèt Kale Party, was subsequently sworn in as president in 2017.[206][207] The 2018–2021 Haitian protests are demonstrations in cities throughout Haiti that began on 7 July 2018, in response to increased fuel prices. Over time these protests evolved into demands for the resignation of president Moïse.[208]
On 7 July 2021, the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in an attack on his private residence. The First Lady, Martine Moïse, was hospitalized following the overnight attack.[209]
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Haitian politics have been contentious: since independence, Haiti has suffered 32 coups.[230] Haiti is the only country in the Western Hemisphere to undergo a successful slave revolution; however, a long history of oppression by dictators such as François Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude Duvalier has markedly affected the nation. Since the end of the Duvalier era Haiti has been transitioning to a democratic system.[20]
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A key coup-plotter in the May 2020 botched invasion of Venezuela said she met with FBI and DEA officials. She admitted Colombia's intelligence services were aiding them and "knew everything," adding that President Iván Duque and far-right political kingpin Álvaro Uribe helped.
Operation Gideon (Spanish: Operación Gedeón) was an unsuccessful attempt by Venezuelan dissidents and an American private military company, Silvercorp USA, to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office in Venezuela.
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The operation occurred in the broader context of an ongoing international dispute beginning in January 2019 over the identity of the legitimate president of Venezuela; Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó. Throughout 2019, Maduro had maintained control of Venezuela's military agencies and key governmental institutions.[18][19] The state intelligence agencies, as well as the Associated Press, had prior knowledge of the plot, which was intercepted before the first boat reached land.
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Silvercorp USA provided security services for at least one rally for President of the United States Donald Trump.[6] At a Trump rally in Charlotte, North Carolina at Bojangles' Coliseum on 26 October 2018, Jordan Goudreau could be seen providing security services at the event.[6]
Through connections within the private security community, Goudreau was acquainted with Keith Schiller, President Trump's longtime director of security.[10]
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The Venezuelan government claimed the United States and its Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) were responsible for the operation and had support from Colombia.[18] Goudreau claimed that Guaidó and two political advisers had signed a contract with him for $213 million in October 2019.[19]
US federal authorities opened an investigation on Goudreau for arms trafficking.[20] On 8 May 2020, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab requested the extradition of Goudreau from the United States, in addition to Venezuelan opposition politicians Juan José Rendon and Sergio Vergara, for the "design, financing, and execution" of the plan to overthrow Maduro.[21]
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Friday, Jul 9, 2021 · 5:28:20 AM +00:00 · annieli
Breaking | Assassination suspects behind killing of president Jovenel Moise arrested inside island’s Taiwanese embassy
- Haitian police find 11 men believed to have been involved in the killing of president Jovenel Moise
- Haiti is one of 15 countries to recognise Taipei, whose embassy statement said it gave permission for police to enter
The Haitian police said on Thursday the hit squad was made up of 26 Colombian nationals and two Americans of Haitian origin. The Taiwanese embassy did not state the nationalities of the suspects apprehended on its grounds.
Haiti is one of 15 countries that recognise Taipei instead of Beijing. Most of these countries are in Latin America and island states in the Pacific.
According to the address on its website, Taipei’s embassy is near Moise’s residence, where he was shot.
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