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Funding, false promises were part of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse’s killing
Haitian businessman Rodolphe “Dodof” Jaar provided more than $150,000 in cash and material support — including housing and semi-automatic weapons — to back the plot that ultimately led to the assassination of his country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, he told a Miami federal jury.
That support included $110,000 in bribes paid to members of the presidential security team —$80,000 to the General Security Unit of the National Palace and $30,000 to the Counter Assault Team — who were responsible for protecting Moïse on the night a squad of Colombian commandos stormed his residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
As gang violence surges, more Haitians are forced to flee their homes
When armed gangs shattered four months of relative calm in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite region last month, the violence didn’t just claim lives. It also added to the pressures of an already strained humanitarian system.
The attacks, along with the ongoing violence in the Center and West regions forced another 20,000 people to flee their homes. Many, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, were fleeing for the second time.
“Clearly the situation in the Artibonite, and in Port-au-Prince, remains very volatile,” said Grégoire Goodstein, the organization’s chief of mission for Haiti, where the U.N. agency tracks the internally displaced and provides emergency aid.
At least 30 dead in Haiti after visit to mountaintop fortress turns tragic
At least 30 people are dead, many of them school-age children as young as 12, after a gathering advertised on TikTok turned tragic on Saturday at Haiti’s premier mountaintop fortress.
The deaths were confirmed by Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who told the Miami Herald “the government is mobilizing” the ministry of health, justices of the peace to respond to the tragedy.
The deaths occurred at the historic Citadelle Laferrière fortress in the town of Milot when heavy rains sent the children into a panic, triggering a stampede around 4 p.m.
Testimony in Miami trial details final hours before Haiti president was killed
“We acted illegally against a power that was in place illegally.” During more than three days of testimony in a federal trial in Miami, former senator Joseph Joël John details efforts to depose Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Key suspects in Moïse killing were never questioned by U.S. authorities, defense argues
Haitian authorities have asked U.S. officials to take custody of a central figure in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, but he remains in Haiti, where he has neither been charged by the U.S. Justice Department nor interviewed by federal agents.
The revelation about Joseph Félix Badio, a former official in Haiti’s anti-corruption unit who was fired months before the brazen killing, emerged Monday during the cross-examination of an FBI official who served as a case agent.