Updates on The Assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise
Jovenel Moise was killed during an attack on his residence early on Wednesday. Nearly 24 hours after his death, Haitian authorities The Haitian authorities said they had killed four people who took part in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and arrested two others
This event has only deepened the violence that has plagued Haiti for the past few months. Pushing the nation into a state of chaos.
In an address to the nation on Wednesday, acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph, said “This death will not go unpunished”.
While people began questioning who may have taken out this grisly attack, how they eluded the president’s security detail to carry it out, the uncertain political landscape .
Mr. Joseph declared that he was now to be in charge, despite the new prime minister, Ariel Henry, is set to be sworn in this week.
Henry claimed that the position of Prime Minister was now his, and that Joseph was no longer in power.
Haiti currently has no Parliament so it is uncertain whether elections will take place in the fall.
Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, said at a news conference that the killing of the country’s president had been carried out “by well-trained professionals, killers, commandos.”
Carl Henry Destin, a Haitian judge, the assailants had posed as agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration — both U.S. and Haitian officials said that they were not associated with the D.E.A. — when they invaded the president’s home.
Haiti has a long standing history of political instability. The country has been rocked by a series of coups in the 20th and 21st centuries, which have been backed by Western powers and have been followed by frequent leadership crises.
Haitian writer, Lilas Desquiron said that “no one understands” what is happening at the political level and that most Haitian political and intellectual actors were currently in a “wait-and-see and powerless position.”
Currently Haiti is observing 15 days of national mourning, where flags will be flown at half staff and all of nightclubs and bars will remain closed.