BRKG Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home

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Haiti assassination has country on edge, assassins 'well trained' commandos
Hours after the killing, authorities announced that police had killed four suspects and arrested two others

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The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse seemed to have thrown an already turbulent nation into chaos on Wednesday, with a muddled line of succession. Here is a look at the situation:

WHO WAS THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT?

Jovenel Moïse was a 48-year-old businessman and political neophyte when he was sworn in as president of Haiti on Feb. 7, 2017. The former banana producer inherited a nation in turmoil — one that had gone a year without an elected leader in place. He leaves it in chaos as well.

Taking office, he pledged to strengthen institutions, fight corruption and bring more investment and jobs to the hemisphere's poorest nation. "We can change Haiti if we work together," Moïse said on the grounds of what used to be the national palace — one of many buildings obliterated by a January 2010 earthquake that killed thousands of Haitians.

HAITIAN PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOISE ASSASSINATED AT HOME, OFFICIAL SAYS

But togetherness never arrived, and his administration was plagued by massive protests from the start. Even his initial election in 2015 was annulled, forcing a re-do that he also won. Critics accused him of growing increasingly authoritarian. He had been ruling by decree for more than a year after dissolving a majority of Parliament in January 2020 amid a delay in legislative elections.

In February, Moïse told the U.N. Security Council that powerful oligarchs had made seven attempts to overthrow him. He also announced that month that about 20 people had been arrested in an assassination plot. But an appeals court later rejected the claim and released the accused plotters, who included a judge and a police inspector general.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION?

Details so far are slim. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said highly trained gunmen, some speaking Spanish or English, killed the president at his home. The first lady also was shot and wounded. He said police and the armed forces were controlling security. A resident who lives near the president’s home compared the sound of the shooting to an earthquake.

Bocchit Edmond, the Haitian ambassador to the U.S., described the attackers as "well trained professional commandos" and "foreign mercenaries" who were masquerading as U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents. He did not comment on possible suspects or motives and said Haiti has asked the U.S. government for assistance in the investigation.


Hours after the killing, authorities announced that police had killed four suspects and arrested two others. Officials, however, gave no details on their identities or possible motive.

WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN HAITI?

The country has struggled with political instability — along with dire poverty and crime — since the end of the brutal dictatorships of Francois and Jean-Claude Duvalier from 1957 to 1986.

Criminal gangs this year have driven thousands of people from their homes, protesters demanding Moïse's ouster in 2019 shut down much of the economy and the country has yet to begin vaccinating its 11 million people against the new coronavirus, which is surging.

Bruno Maes, Haiti’s representative for the U.N.’s children agency, last month compared the gang situation to guerrilla warfare, "with thousands of children and women caught in the crossfire." Pierre Espérance, executive director of the Haitian National Human Rights Defense Network, said gangs control about 60% of the country’s territory.

Police and the military, too, have been troubled, often targeted by gangs. Masked officers who said they belonged to a disgruntled faction stormed several police stations in March to free comrades who'd been accused of participating in a coup attempt. The army was re-inaugurated only in 2017. It had been disbanded in 1995 after the fall of a dictatorship.

Political strife has deepened since Feb. 7, when opposition leaders claim Moïse’s legal term had expired — five years after he would have taken office if the initial vote had been allowed. Moïse argued it ends in February 2022 since he wasn’t sworn in until 2017.


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The government has been without a formal prime minister since April when Joseph Jouthe resigned amid a spike in killings and kidnappings. His replacement has not yet been approved by the parliament.

With Moïse ruling by decree, the government has scheduled new elections for September and a possible runoff in November. The government also has pushed a referendum on a new constitution that critics allege might allow the president to extend his power. But that vote has also been delayed.

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WHAT’S NEXT?

Authorities have closed the international airport and declared a state of siege.

Under the Haitian Constitution, the president of the Supreme Court would temporarily take over. But he recently died of COVID-19. The National Assembly would then select a new leader. But that's not possible because there's effectively no current legislature: The terms of the lower house members have all expired as well as two-thirds of those in the Senate.


That leaves the acting prime minister, Joseph, in charge along with his fellow government ministers, according to Haitian attorney Salim Succar, once chief of staff to former Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.

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But Joseph had only an interim role. Moïse was killed a day after he nominated Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon, as Haiti’s new prime minister. He had not been confirmed, however. The uncertainty could create more volatility ahead of general elections later this year.
 

zeker

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didnt the haitians lobby to be a US state, at one time?

its early

I may be confuzzled :shr:
 

Housecarl

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didnt the haitians lobby to be a US state, at one time?

its early

I may be confuzzled :shr:

The US occupied the place from 1915 to 1934. Part of the reason was the push by Imperial Germany to gain a foothold in the country. German business interests in the country were following a similar model as they were in the rest of Latin America, the difference being that the "stability" in Haiti was so much less so that the place was ripe for influence up to including a take over which the US did per-emptively.
 

BUBBAHOTEPT

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Somebody please tell CNN and Nutty Nancy that this looks like an Actual insurrection… :kaid:
 

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i Police Arrest Six Suspects, Kill Seven In President's Assassination
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BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUL 08, 2021 - 04:40 PM
At least two suspects in the brazen slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were found in the capital of Port-au-Prince by residents who turned them over to the Haitian National Police.
Journalists saw scores of people gather around the men on Thursday, grabbing the suspects by their shirts and the back of their pants, pushing them and on occasion slapping them. People in the crowd said they had found the two hiding in bushes.
Police arrived shortly afterward to arrest the men, who were sweating heavily and were wearing clothes that seemed to be smeared with mud. Officers placed them in the back of a pickup truck and drove away as the crowd ran after them to the nearby police station. -AP News.
Two of the assassins were hauled off to the Port au Prince police station.






Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president







Haiti police battle gunmen who killed president

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Allegedly another suspect was detained by residents.

National Police Director Leon Charles told Radio Metropole that six alleged assassins were arrested Thursday and seven were killed in fierce shootouts across the capital. The men are allegedly responsible for shooting Moise dozens of times and critically injuring his wife.
WaPo reports one of the six people arrested in connection with the assassination is a U.S. citizen of Haitian descent. The paper quoted a Haitian Cabinet minister who said James Solages, a U.S. citizen, has been arrested.

Readers may recall Wednesday night, we posted a video of the mercenaries right before they attacked the president's private residence. One of the attackers, likely Solages, announced on a loudspeaker: "This is a DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down."


The impoverished Caribbean nation's future remains uncertain as the prime minister has taken leadership and declared a two-week state of siege in the country.
 

artichoke

Greetings from near tropical NYC!
You govern by the assent of your peers. Apparently this one did not have the assent.

Nor legitimacy.

Bodes well for the Biden Regime does it not?

Cue President Kennedy Quote.

Dobbin
On the other hand, he was elected. There was a disagreement about when that term ended. But having complaints from those who lost the election isn't enough to force out the office-holder. Otherwise the biggest demonstration would win.

It seems that was sometimes here anyway. BLM has gotten a lot without having to win a single election. Come to think of it, there was a demonstration in Haiti today, and I saw someone with a sign "Lift Black Voices". That was pretty strange in a country where every voice is from a black person. But I guess it was the side tied to BLM. It's a worldwide movement to bring communism everywhere.
 
my first thoughts on this, was it was either that he didn't want to go along with the covid hysteria....or that he had dirt on the Clintons...more likely!! :rolleyes: :)
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
This story keeps changing...


Two South Florida Men Among Suspects Arrested In Assassination Of Haitian President
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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, JUL 09, 2021 - 07:18 AM
Late Thursday evening, a news conference was held at Haitian National Police Headquarters in the capital of Port-au-Prince with the country's interim prime minister Claude Joseph and Mathias Pierre, a minister in charge of Haitian elections. The officials announced that two South Florida men and 15 Colombian nationals had been detained in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, according to Miami Herald.
Two U.S. citizens of Haitian descent, James Solages, 35, of Fort Lauderdale and Joseph Vincent, 55, of Miami, were identified during the press conference.
Undated videos of Solages, whose primary residents is in Fort Lauderdale, described himself as a "philanthropist and child advocate who enjoyed helping schoolchildren from the area where he grew up," according to Miami Herald.


Haitian officials identified four of the other suspects arrested so far, all from Colombia: Alejandro Girardo Zapata, 41; John Jairo Ramirez Gomez, 40; Victor Albeiro Pinera Cardona, 40; and Manuel Antonio Groso Guarin, 41. The remaining suspects have yet to be named.

In total, 17 have been arrested, including the two Americans and 15 Colombians. There seems to be a discrepancy of initial reports that police killed seven assailants but now the figure is three. The police didn't explain the difference.

Some of the assailants were rounded up by residents in the capital and handed over to police. We shared a video of this on Thursday afternoon.

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Searches continue Friday for more suspects. Police said there could be eight more on the run.

"We are pursuing them. We are asking the public to help us," said Haiti's police chief, Leon Charles.
The country's interim prime minister said a group of foreigners had entered the country to kill the president "in a cowardly fashion."


"They forgot something," Joseph said. "You may kill the president, but you cannot kill his dreams, you cannot kill his ideology, and you cannot kill what he was fighting for. That's why I'm determined for President Jovenel Moïse's family, friends and allies, and the Haitian population, to get justice."
At Haiti's National Police Headquarters, authorities showed images on national television of the assailants. They also displayed the weapons used in the assassination, including assault rifles, shotguns, sledgehammers, machetes, and bolt cutters.



Here's the video of the assailants lined up at the police station.

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The mysterious plot against Moise appears to reach well beyond Haiti's borders and now involves two U.S. citizens and more than a dozen Colombian, some of which were ex-military.

The impoverished Caribbean nation's future remains uncertain as the prime minister has taken leadership and declared a two-week state of siege in the country.

However, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki has yet to announce the Biden administration supports the interim prime minister.

"It is our view, and we continue to call for elections to happen this year, and we believe they should proceed. We know that free and fair elections will facilitate a peaceful transition of power to a newly elected president and we certainly continue to support Haiti's democratic institutions.
"We will call on all political parties, civil society and stakeholders to work together in the wake of the tragedy and echo the acting prime minister's call for calm. We recognize the democratic institutions of Haiti, and we are going to continue to work with them directly, but we have been calling for elections this year, and we support those proceeding," Psaki said.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council met about the country's crisis.
 

Abe Froman

Senior Member
Seems bush league to me. I seriously doubt any US special ops were involved.

They would have had a solid egress plan that would not allow being corned by "locals".
 

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Cacheman

Ultra MAGA!
Those with motive include Hatian political rivals, Drug Cartels from the entire region and possibly even the PRC/CCP when influence operations by them in the region are taken into account.

Since 1956 Haiti has had formal relations with Taiwan and none with the PRC/CCP and on the same island Dominican Republic is up to their neck with the PRC/CCP.

Just a snip from an article....


TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s foreign ministry says Haitian police have arrested 11 armed suspects who tried to break into the its embassy in Port-au-Prince. It gave no details of the suspects’ identities or a reason for the break-in.

CCP has been trying to buy off Haiti for several years with no luck.
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
Here is an update to the article in post 55.


Biden Sending FBI, DHS To Haiti After President Assassinated
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BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, JUL 09, 2021 - 02:27 PM
Update (1427ET): Many unanswered questions are swirling around the two American assassins, part of a team of 26 heavily armed Colombians who stormed Haitian President Jovenel Moise's private residence Wednesday and shot him dead, also critically injuring his wife.

Reuters says U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are investigating James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55. Both are from South Florida and were arrested by the Haitian National Police Thursday in connection with the president's slaying.

Two law enforcement sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters an "active investigation" is open on Solages and Vincent, and their roles in the killing. The sources said U.S. agencies have yet to assist Haitian police because officials have not requested help.


But in a new update via CNN, it appears the U.S. is sending officials to Haiti at that the request of the Caribbean government.

"The U.S. remains engaged," White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, adding that senior FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials will be arriving shortly in the country's capital of Port Au Prince. She said the agents would evaluate the situation and provide assistance.

One of the most critical questions investigators should be asking is what motivated the two Americans to commit such a heinous act on foreign soil.

Reuters points out Solages described himself as a "certified diplomatic agent" and the former "chief commander of bodyguards" for the Canadian embassy in Haiti.

Florida records show Solages has security officer and firearm licenses. He also runs a company called FWA SA A JACMEL AVAN INC, which defines itself as a charity supporting impoverished children in Haiti.

Out of the two dozen Colombians, 17 of them were ex-soldiers, police say.

So what motived the two Americans and more than two dozen Colombians to perform such a brazen assassination of the Haitian president? Was it money?
 

colonel holman

Veteran Member
If it was us black ops it would have been a cleaner hit.
Way way too sloppy. CCP hired, but sure they regret that now, or not.
Other possibility is Clinton Foundation, as they did major ripoff operations there post hurricane, and they hired wrong folks to do the job.
 

Bubble Head

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Three things jump out. Lot of pale skin amongst the perps. No vaccines and now that the President is murdered we are sending special units in to help find the perps along with vaccine. James Solages runs a charity in Florida for the Haitian children. Conclusion is the smell of Clinton with the NWO vaccine program to reduce world population. A friend told me this from his cave.
 

Bubble Head

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Way way too sloppy. CCP hired, but sure they regret that now, or not.
Other possibility is Clinton Foundation, as they did major ripoff operations there post hurricane, and they hired wrong folks to do the job.
Colonel they may have hired exactly the right people to do the wet work. The interrogation may never reveal anything useful before they are hung. Let’s face it, their extract never showed up and the leads on who hired them will go no where. Real pros have away out.
 

TheChrome

Contributing Member
From what I'm reading is this was a Chinese hit. Chinese business wanted into Haiti and homeboy wanted a much bigger cut than they offered.


11 gunmen storm Taiwan embassy in Haiti

"TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Nearly a dozen gunmen believed to be involved in the assassination of Haiti's president forced their way into the Taiwan embassy on Thursday (July 8) but have since been arrested, and no injuries have been reported.

Taiwan's embassy in Port-au-Prince has been closed since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday (July 7), with staff working from home. However, Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Joanne Ou (歐江安) told Taiwan News that early Thursday morning the embassy's security team discovered a band of armed men had breached the facility's security perimeter"

 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
Now the Canadian Embassy involved? And Sean Penn?


Former Canadian Embassy Worker Arrested In Haiti Assassination Worked For Shadowy Security Firm
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, JUL 11, 2021 - 03:58 PM
Update: The Sun-Sentinel reports that the two South Florida Haitian Americans currently in custody in Haiti claimed to have been recruited to do work in the country by an "under-the-radar firm in Doral" called CTU Security.
According to the report, it's run by a Venezuelan émigré, Antonio Enmanuel Intriago Valera.
The Miami Herald visited the company’s offices on Thursday, where a doorbell rang to a phone, and a man declined to discuss the events in Haiti. He did not return phone calls, texts or emails asking about reports of involvement in the monumental developments gripping Haiti. No one answered on Saturday.
Multiple sources in Haiti, requesting anonymity for their safety, have confirmed to the Herald that the detained men said they were hired by CTU, and several of the men indicated they had been in Haiti for at least three months, some longer. It is unclear if they knew or believed CTU leaders were aware of the assassination plot.


The assassination of Hatian president Jovenel Moïse has taken yet another strange twist, after ABC News reports that a Florida man arrested in connection with the hit formerly worked in Canada's Embassy in Haiti, and also worked for a Hatian Relief Organization founded by suspected spooky actor Sean Penn following a 7.0 earthquake in 2010 that killed over 300,000 people.
James Solages, a 35-year-old Haitian-born resident of Miami, is one of 28 suspects accused by the Haitian government of participating in the deadly July 7 ambush attack that killed Moïse.
James Solages. (Facebook)
Solages, along with 55-year-old Joseph Vincent (also of Miami), claim they thought they were acting as interpreters 'for an authorized operation to arrest the Haitian president' by a group of Columbians, who told them Moïse was going to be arrested, not killed, according to the Washington Post.
According to NBC News, Solages worked as a bodyguard at Canada's Embassy in Port-au-Prince, however relatives say he has no formal military training. Canada, of course, is adding as much distance as possible (via the Florida Sun-Sentinel):
Solages is also the president of a nonprofit organization with an office in North Lauderdale. FWA SA A JACMEL AVAN, which is Creole for “This Time Jacmel First,” has a mission of “rebuilding Haiti,” according to its website. The website as well as its Facebook page — both which were working Thursday — were no longer accessible Friday.
The website on Thursday said Solages claimed to be the chief commander of bodyguards for the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. However multiple news outlets are reporting that Canada’s foreign relation department said one of the men detained in the assassination (it did not name Solages) had been employed only briefly as a reserve bodyguard at its embassy by a private contractor.

Meanwhile, Solages worked as a driver and in a security capacity for Sean Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization according to two sources.
Penn laid down what he considers lifelong roots in Haiti following the earthquake, at one point even living in a tent city among some 40,000 Haitians left homeless by the natural disaster.
For his multi-year efforts on behalf of the Haitian people, former President Michel Martelly — the mentor of slain President Jovenel Moise — named Penn ambassador at large, the first non-Haitian to receive that designation. -ABC News
James Solages (left) and other suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise
The assassination was carried out early Wednesday when a heavily armed group of men stormed the presidential mansion and shot Moïse multiple times, injuring his wife in the process. Prior to the storming, a man with an American accent could be heard on a megaphone announcing that it was a "DEA Operation."

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Last months, Solages filed for divorce from his wife of three years, according to court records. On June 15, he signed a financial affidavit claiming that he was unemployed, had zero cash on hand, and zero assets, according to the Sun-Sentinel. His uncle by marriage, Schubert Dorisme, said he had not seen Solages for a few months - while the Post reported that he had been in Haiti for about a month, while the other Florida suspect, Vincent, had been there about six months.
Solages and Vincent were among several suspects captured and detained on Thursday evening, while three suspects have been killed and eight are on the run.
Suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise sit on the floor handcuffed after being detained, at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. (AP)
Of course, now that FBI and Homeland Security officials are on their way, we're sure the situation will be fully investigated and an honest accounting will be made public (perhaps after a few Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuits).
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
Trained by US :eek: The Clintons have got to be involved somewhere. Everything they touch turns to crap.


Suspected Assassins Of Haitian President Moïse Trained By US, Linked To Pro-Coup Oligarchy
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, JUL 11, 2021 - 07:30 PM
Authored by Dan Cohen via MintPressNews.com,
As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades grooming...


Suspects in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise are shown to the media, along with the weapons and equipment they allegedly used in the attack, at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 8, 2021. Joseph Odelyn | AP

As shock grips the Caribbean island nation of Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the Haitian government has carried out a campaign to arrest suspects it alleges are responsible for the murder.

Haitian Director of National Police Leon Charles announced at a press conference that the assassination squad that killed Moise is comprised of 28 foreigners, including two Haitian-Americans and 26 Colombian nationals. Fifteen of those Colombians have been detained while three were killed in a gun battle and eight remain fugitives. Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano has admitted that some of the Colombians are retired military personnel. Among them are at least one highly decorated soldier who received training from the United States and another who has been implicated in the murder of Colombian civilians.

Ties to oligarchs
The Haitian-Americans have been identified as James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55. Solages lives in Fort Lauderdale where he is the CEO of EJS Maintenance & Repair and runs a nonprofit group, the website of which has since been scrubbed of information. Prior to relocating to Florida, he lived in the southern Haitian coastal city of Jacmel.

According to The Washington Post, Solages’ Facebook profile, which has since been removed, listed him as the chief commander of bodyguards for the Canadian Embassy in Haiti. The Canadaian Embassy confirmed that Solages previously worked as a security guard. While in Florida, Solages was an “avid and vocal supporter of former President Michel Martelly,” the founder of Moïse’s Haitian Baldheaded Party (PHTK), according to Tony Jean-Thénor, leader of the Veye Yo popular organization in Miami, founded by the late Father Gérard Jean-Juste.




Photos of James Solages and an armored military vehicle that he posted to his now-removed Facebook page

The Haitian Times reported Solages also used to work as a security guard for both Reginald Boulos and Dimitri Vorbe, two prominent members of Haiti’s tiny bourgeoisie. Although initially friendly to him, they both became bitter opponents of Moïse. Boulos was also a prominent supporter of previous coups in 1991 and 2004 against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

The Boulos family is one of the wealthiest in Haiti and owns a pharmaceutical company that, in 1996, was responsible for poisoning scores of children with its tainted fever medicine, some fatally. Since the July 6-8, 2018 national uprising against the IMF-dictated hike of fuel prices, Boulos has attempted to recast himself as a popular and progressive figure (after one of his stores was burned and looted), heading a political party called the Third Way Movement (MTV).

Vorbe is the executive director and vice president of Société Générale d’Énergie SA, one of the largest private energy companies in Haiti which had a sweet-heart deal providing power to the energy grid that Moïse sought to renegotiate after the collapse of the PetroCaribe program, under which Venezuela provided Haiti with cheap oil and credit from 2008 to 2018.

Many believe Boulos is the intellectual author and financial backer of Moïse’s murder.


“Solage’s employment by Boulos and centrality to the operation appears to confirm the growing popular consensus in Haiti that this controversial merchant-turned-politician was the principal backer of Moïse’s assassination,” explained journalist Kim Ives, continuing:

A lot of factors have been pointing to his involvement: The arrival of the mercenaries in nine brand new Nissan Patrol vehicles without license plates suggests that they were vehicles coming from the Nissan dealership owned by Reginald Boulos. The Haitian people have already concluded that Boulous was behind the assassination and have dechoukéed [uprooted] the dealership, Automeca, that he owned.”


Colombian assassin trained by the U.S.
While the Haitian-Americans reportedly served as translators, the muscle of the assassination squad came from Colombia, the U.S.’s top regional ally, which serves as a platform for destabilization and regime change plots in the region, from Venezuela to Ecuador – and now apparently Haiti.

The most prominent member of the hit squad is Manuel Antonio Grosso Guarín, a 41-year-old former special operations commando who retired from the military as a member of the Simón Bolívar No. 1 infantry battalion on December 31, 2019. According to the Colombian newspaper La Semana, Grosso “had several special combat courses, had been a member of the special forces and anti-guerrilla squads, and was known for being a skilled paratrooper who flew through the air without fear.”




Grosso is pictured in the rear (blue jeans) being moved following a press in Port-au-Prince, July 8, 2021. Joseph Odelyn | AP

In 2013, Grosso was assigned to the Urban Anti-Terrorist Special Force group, a secretive elite military detachment dedicated to counter-terrorism operations and carrying out kidnappings and assassinations (euphemistically known as ‘high value target acquisition and elimination’). This branch of the military is also tasked with providing security to VIP figures from the Colombian president to U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush.

“He was one of the most prepared,” a source remarked to La Semana.

Among Grosso’s preparations was special command instruction from the United States military, which supplies training and weapons to the Colombia military, one of the most repressive armed forces in the region and one that works to secure international corporate interests and drug trafficking routes.


“How many false positives (see the following paragraph), how many social leaders, how many signers of the peace accord, will be on this man?” left-wing Colombian Senator Gustavo Bolivar commented on Twitter.


Grosso was joined by Francisco Eladio Uribe Ochoa, who had retired from the Colombian Army in 2019, according to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. Eladio Uribe’s wife told the newspaper that he had been investigated for participation in the execution of civilians — a practice known as “false positives,” in which the Colombian military lured at least 6,402 civilians, murdered them, and dressed them in guerrilla fatigues in order to inflate their kill numbers. This gruesome practice helped military commanders reach lofty kill-count quotas set by the United States and was incentivized with bonus pay and vacation time for soldiers who carried out the killings.

Though Eladio Uribe’s wife said that he had been exonerated, his name has appeared in a file of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a court formed out of the 2016 peace accord, which has investigated several thousand cases of false positives that the Colombian government had not previously admitted. Eladio Uribe is one of two soldiers accused in the 2008 murder of Luis Carlos Cárdenas in the village of Chorros Blancos in Antioquia region.

Other alleged members of the hit squad alleged to have killed Moïse include:

  • Duberney Capador Giraldo, a retired Deputy First Sergeant (killed in a gun battle in Haiti)
  • Alejandro Giraldo Zapata
  • John Jairo Ramírez Gómez
  • Víctor Albeiro Piñera
Of the 28 total people who allegedly participated in the assassination, four of the Colombians arrived in Haiti on June 6, 2021. Grosso arrived in the Dominican city of Punta Cana and crossed the land border into Haiti two days later. Photos show him and other suspects at popular tourist sites in the Dominican Republic.



A photo of Grosso, left, along with some of the other suspects posing in Haiti posted to Grosso’s Facebook page

Unanswered questions and a growing consensus
Questions also remain about why Moïse’s security team failed to protect him, and if any of its members were complicit in the murder. Dimitri Herard, the head of the General Security Unit of the National Palace, is under investigation by the United States government for arms trafficking, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). While there is no evidence (but many rumors) linking him to the murder, “Herard is one of the individuals most responsible for the safety of the president.”

While the Haitian government has identified what appear to be Moïse’s assassins, there is still no hard evidence — just circumstantial — linking them to Boulos and possibly even Vorbe. Nonetheless, “there is a growing consensus that Reginald Boulous, for whom an arrest warrant [was] issued last week, paid for the mercenaries,” according to Ives. “It appears to be becoming more and more evident that the sector of the Haitian bourgeois, with whom Jovenel Moïse was at war, are intimately linked to his assassination.”

As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. appears to be preparing the groundwork to deploy troops to Haiti at the request of a figure whom it has spent decades grooming. According to The New York Times, Claude Joseph, who is in a struggle against Dr. Ariel Henry to head the Haitian state in the wake of Moïse’s assassination, requested the U.S. send military forces to guard key infrastructure, including the port, airport, and gasoline reserves. White House Spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would reinforce U.S. personnel in Haiti with FBI and DHS deployments.


Joseph is an asset of the United States and its regime-change arm, the National Endowment For Democracy. Wikileaks cables revealed that he first came to prominence in 2003 as the leader of a NED-spawned student front called GRAFNEH in the lead up to the coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He also founded another NED-funded anti-Aristide group Initiative Citoyenne (Citizens’ Initiative). He is reported by Haitian radio stations to have been, with prominent Haitian ex-Deputy Gary Bodeau, one of the principal assailants who severely beat the late Father Gérard Jean-Juste in a Pétionville church in 2005.

Jean-Juste, perhaps the most prominent supporter and surrogate of the then exiled-in-South-Africa President Aristide, had been falsely accused of involvement in the killing of his own cousin, Jacques Roche, a writer.

“Essentially, we have a U.S. puppet asking his puppeteer to invade Haiti for the fourth time in just over a century,” Ives concluded. “But both the region and, above all, the Haitian people are sick and tired of U.S. military interventions, which are largely responsible for the nation’s current debilitated, critical state both economically and politically. Much of the most oppressed neighborhoods are now heavily armed and have already announced a revolution against the likes of Boulos, so the U.S.-led invaders of 2021 are likely to face a resistance similar to that which emerged against the U.S. Marines in 1915 and UN ‘peace-keepers’ in 2004, only more ferocious.”
 

KFhunter

Veteran Member
Its looking like this Hatian-American James Solages is the fiancier of the operation and huge supporter of the former Hatian President

might just be as simple as that, hired some Columbian gang bangers and hatched a plot, probably some other players involved too, like the former Hatian President...whom I'd be looming at very closely and I'd be interviewing those palace guards vigorously...who paid em?
 
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