Jul 7, 2021
The video of the homicide circulated early in the morning on social media, as users identified that the assassins spoke English and Spanish with a U.S. accent and the government said that highly trained foreign attackers were involved.
Haiti’s acting President, Claude Joseph, reported on Wednesday that a “group of non-identified individuals, some of whom spoke Spanish,” killed Jovenel Moïse. The assassins identified themselves as agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), but the U.S. denied the claims
The video of the homicide circulated early in the morning on social media, as users identified that the assassins spoke English and Spanish with a U.S. accent and the government said that highly trained foreign attackers were involved.
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De facto president of Haiti Jovenel Moïse assassinated
Jul 7, 2021
Jovenel Moïse, the de facto president of Haiti, was assassinated at 1am on July 7 at his home. His wife and Haiti’s first lady, Martine Moïse, was also injured in the attack and has been hospitalized. The news was announced by the prime minister Claude Joseph through an official communique early on July 7. In a press conference, Joseph declared a state of emergency and called for an extraordinary council of ministers.
According to the communique, the assailants have not been identified but are suspected to be Spanish-speaking. The official communique called for the population to remain calm and declared that the National Police and Army would be watching over the nation’s security.
The killing comes at a time of rapidly increasing instability and insecurity in the country. A few days ago, Moïse’s government had announced that the constitutional referendum that had been scheduled for June 29 was postponed till September 26 when legislative and presidential elections are set to be held. The referendum itself had been met with widespread rejection from all sectors of Haitian society from the Episocopal Conference to social movements and left political parties as it directly violated the 1987 democratic institution.
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