Haiti's president was assassinated Wednesday. Here's what we know

[neurosis]

Nobody?    This seemed like an interesting topic.  I think we're losing our touch.

https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-in-his-home/">https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/haitian-p ... -his-home/">https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-in-his-home/

[Jeff]

Nobody?    This seemed like an interesting topic.  I think we're losing our touch.

To be fair, I haven't really been keeping up on my Haitian news lately. I've been slacking, I know.

 

[gcode]

Given Haiti's past, the guy probably needed killing.
The news this morning said 17 conspirators had been arrested and 4 killed in a big shootout.
Again, given Haiti's past, I'd be really surprised if any on them were actually involved in the assination.
The are probably the poor bastards of the losing side of a power struggle to replace the last guy.

[gcode]

He upset Killary...

nope.. he was providing Hunter with hookers and blow... and blackmailing Joe
for a shiny new aircraft carrier  :ice:

[YoDoug]

MEH, we have our own fraudulently elected, banana republic, wanna be socialist dictator to worry about here. I'm not worried about Haiti's banana republic problems.

[neurosis]

Given Haiti's past, the guy probably needed killing.
The news this morning said 17 conspirators had been arrested and 4 killed in a big shootout.

That was what made it interesting to me.  The guys who ran in had American accents and were yelling "DEA operation".   I doubt that is true.  Or at least what I've read says that the people who assassinated him didn't care about their own lives.  That doesn't sound like a US operation?

[Jeff]

American accents and were yelling "DEA operation".   I doubt that is true.  

That's the part that smells fishy.  It sounds like a blatant and lame attempt to pin this on the U.S.A.

[crazy^millman]

American accents and were yelling "DEA operation".   I doubt that is true.  

That's the part that smells fishy.  It sounds like a blatant and lame attempt to pin this on the U.S.A.

No one would ever do such a thing. It is clear they have oil and other things we desire so the USA just made sure they got what they wanted.        

[beej]

I stopped trusting the Haitians after watching Justified.

[RobertELee]

Haiti's dead president is still smarter than our living president.

[Incogneeto]

Thank God Sean Penn wasn't visiting at that Time....

This could have been a lot Worse.

[CNCAppsJames]

American accents and were yelling "DEA operation".   I doubt that is true.  

That's the part that smells fishy.  It sounds like a blatant and lame attempt to pin this on the U.S.A.

To be fair, it would NOT be the first time Alphabet Soup executed an op of this nature.

Our Alphabet Soup Agencies are corrupt to the core, top to bottom. The ends ALWAYS justify the means with them and you know it.

[gcode]

Questions have been raised over Haiti's official narrative for the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, who was gunned down at his mansion in Port-au-Prince last Wednesday.

Haitian police and the politicians who stepped into the political vacuum created by Moïse's killing have claimed he was shot at about 1am by members of a predominantly Colombian hit squad who had stormed the president's hillside residence. "Foreigners came to our country to kill the president," police chief Léon Charles alleged after the shooting.

 Security forces member exchange gunfire with armed men next to the Petionville police station in Port-au-Prince on July 8, 2021. - Police in Haiti have surrounded a group of possible suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the UN envoy to Haiti said. Helen La Lime said from the Haitian capital that four members of a group that attacked the presidential palace Wednesday and shot the president have been killed by police and six others are in custody. (Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE BAERISWYL/AFP via Getty Images)
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However, opposition politicians and media reports in Haiti and Colombia are now casting doubt on that version, as uncertainty grips the Caribbean country and the streets of the capital remain eerily quiet amid fears Haiti is lurching into a new phase of political and social upheaval.

On Friday, Steven Benoit, a prominent opposition politician and former senator, told the local radio station Magik9: "The president was assassinated by his own guards, not by the Colombians."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/10/doubts-raised-about-who-was-behind-the-assassination-of-haitis-president">//https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/10/doubts-raised-about-who-was-behind-the-assassination-of-haitis-president

Looks like the mercenaries were hired to be fall guys.
Whether they were hired assassins or a quick reaction security force, they showed up
just in time to take the fall for the murder

[gcode]

Tortured before he was murdered

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/investigators-say-haitian-president-tortured-before-assassination/2300738">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/inves ... on/2300738">https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/investigators-say-haitian-president-tortured-before-assassination/2300738

[marshal]

Haiti's dead president is still smarter than our last two presidents.

fixed that for you.