From the NYT On the streets, vigilantes prowled for suspects, and the police killed at least three people in gunfights. The vast majority of those arrested have turned out to be from Colombia — former military men said to have turned mercenaries — as questions arose about why it had been so easy for attackers …
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MIAMI — An American arrested in connection to the assassination of Haiti’s president worked alongside Sean Penn to rebuild the country from a devastating earthquake in 2010, according to three people familiar with the Hollywood actor’s decade-old relief drive… The two people said James Solages worked as a driver and in a security capacity for …
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A lone security guard at the Taiwanese embassy in Haiti was responsible for the arrests of 11 suspects in the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse, after a group of heavily armed commandos invaded the diplomatic compound the evening after the murder.
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Five years after a landmark international arbitration court ruling repudiated China’s claims to the waters where Megu fishes, the 48-year-old complains that his encounters with Chinese boats are more frequent than ever. … “I was so scared,” said Megu, describing how a Chinese vessel had tracked his wooden outrigger boat for three hours some 140 …
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For those want to hire mercenaries, Colombia is a popular choice. The South American country’s nearly 60 years of internal conflict have provided a prolific training ground for soldiers … “There are a significant number of Colombian soldiers in Dubai, for example.” The United Arab Emirates has been an important client of Colombian ex-soldiers, dispatching …
Haitian government officials said they had requested that the United States send in troops to protect Haiti’s port, airport, gasoline reserves and other key infrastructure as the country has descended into turmoil in the wake of the brazen assassination of President Jovenel Moïse early Wednesday morning.
“There is no more Parliament, the Senate is missing for a long time, there’s no president of the Court of Cassation,” said Didier Le Bret, a former French ambassador to Haiti, adding of Mr. Joseph: “Everything will rest on him.”… But the money did not set Haiti on a new path — and many experts …
Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.
“I and I alone have destroyed my career, my relationships and my life,” a tearful Avenatti told Manhattan federal judge Paul Gardephe, according to reporters in the courtroom.
James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, both US citizens of Haitian descent, were arrested along with 15 Colombian nationals over Wednesday’s brazen raid on Moïse’s mansion in the hills above Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian police… Not everyone was buying the government’s description of the attack… Many wondered how the sophisticated attackers described by police could …
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Haiti’s security forces were locked in a fierce gun battle on Wednesday with assailants who assassinated President Jovenel Moise at his home overnight, plunging the already impoverished, violence-wracked nation deeper into chaos.
No. The world doesn’t give a damn about Haiti or the Congo. The more public tears are shed about a place the less they care. When the UN shows up it’s like the undertaker measuring your country for a coffin.
But it proved good enough.
Haitian First Lady Martine Moise, 47, was airlifted to Miami with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday Her husband, President Jovenel Moise, was killed in a brazen assassination raid on their home overnight Gang of ‘mercenaries’ posing as US DEA agents staged the raid speaking English and Spanish Shocking eyewitness footage shows killers shout into a …
Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, told Reuters the gunmen falsely identified themselves as agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, citing video footage the government has in its possession but added: “No way they were DEA agents.” The attack “was carried out by foreign mercenaries and professional killers — well-orchestrated”, Mr Edmond …
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The results come two weeks after voting in the primary ended, on June 22. While early returns showed Adams in the lead, tens of thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted and rounds of tabulations has to be done under the ranked-choice system in which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in …
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More than 2,600 people came to the camps to receive shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured and marketed in India as Covishield. Some said that they became suspicious when their shots did not show up in the Indian government’s online portal tracking vaccinations, and when the hospitals that the organizers had claimed to be affiliated …
