Weaponry, mobile phones, passports and other items are being shown to the media along with suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead early Wednesday at his home, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 8, 2021. REUTERS/Estailove St-Val
The United States and Colombia said on Friday they will send law enforcement and intelligence officials to assist Haiti after a number of their nationals were arrested for the brutal assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
The assassination of Moise by a squad of gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in Port-au-Prince pitched Haiti deeper into a political crisis https://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-politics-timeline-idAFKCN2ED1F6 which may worsen growing hunger, gang violence and a COVID-19 outbreak.
US, Colombia sending agents to Haiti to help probe president s killing
Haitian police identified the two as James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55, saying that they were part of a heavily armed commando unit comprised mostly of 26 Colombians, who sources in the Colombian army said entered Haiti from the neighboring Dominican Republic.
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Suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead early Wednesday at his home, are shown to the media in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 8, 2021. REUTERS/Estailove St-Val
BOGOTA/PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 9 (Reuters) The United States and Colombia said on Friday they will send law enforcement and intelligence officials to assist Haiti after a number of their nationals were arrested for the brutal assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
10 July 2021, 2:51 AM | Reuters | @SABCNews
Image: Reuters Police in Haiti said the assassination was carried out by a commando unit of 26 Colombian and 2 Haitian-American mercenaries.
Haiti has requested US and UN security forces to help it protect key infrastructure like the airport and ports after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise by foreign mercenaries, a government minister said on Friday.
The assassination of Moise by a squad of gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in Port-au-Prince pitched Haiti deeper into a political crisis which may worsen growing hunger, gang violence and a COVID-19 outbreak.
Elections Minister Mathias Pierre said a request for US security assistance was raised in a conversation between Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday.
Haiti assassination allegedly involved Americans and retired members of Colombian military, officials say
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Caitlin Hu, Lionel Vital, Stefano Pozzebon and Helen Regan, CNN
Published Jul 10, 2021 1:28:17 AM
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(CNN) The violent fallout from the assassination of Haitiian President Jovenel Moise was evident on Friday near his private residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Burned out cars, spent bullet casings, bloodstains and bullet-pocked walls were what remained of a shootout between the police and some of the suspected assassins on Route de Kenscoff.
Haitian authorities told CNN that three burned out cars belonged to members of the armed group who assassinated Moise early on Wednesday morning.