/ 14 December 2021

A new lead in the murder of Haiti’s president

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

An investigation by the New York Times has revealed a possible motive in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise in July – he was about to hand over the names of local politicians and businessmen involved in the country’s drug trade. The report says he told officials to spare no one from the list, including powerful supporters. His wife Martine Moise has given her first interview about the night gunmen burst into the official residence and killed her husband, before hurriedly digging through his files. “That’s it,” she heard them saying before leaving. Senior Haitian officials told the publication that some of the captured hit men confessed that retrieving the list was a top priority. In the months before his death, Moïse took steps to clean up ports and customs processes known to be part of the drug trade. And American officials told the Times that they believe Moise’s efforts to disrupt drug gangs was behind his murder. The plot thickens…

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