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Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti’s former leader, plus related charges. They face possible life sentences. They all pleaded not guilty.

This weekend saw the announcement of something called the “Shield of the Americas” initiative by the Trump Administration. The announcement, made by President Trump himself, and attended by a number of his Cabinet Members (Rubio, Hegseth, Lutnick and Greer) was made in the company of 12 Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Temporary immigration protections will remain in place, for now, for more than 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. A federal appeals court in Washington D.C. district late Friday rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow deportations to take place while a lawsuit challenging its termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation moves forward.

Un ressortissant haïtien, détenu depuis plusieurs mois dans un centre de rétention de la police de l'immigration (ICE) en Arizona, est mort lundi (2 mars) des suites d'une infection dentaire non traitée, ont rapporté des médias américains.

The Federal Aviation Administration has extended its ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti’s capital through Sept. 3 over a risk that criminal gangs could target aircraft. The FAA halted all flights in November after a Spirit Airlines flight was shot at while landing at Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport. A flight attendant received minor injuries and other commercial planes on the ground were hit.