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    Tanya Wadhwa: What we know about who is behind the assassination of Haiti's president 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on July 14, 2021, 8:32 am

    July 14, 2021

    (quote)
    In the last official press conference on July 11, from the house of
    self-proclaimed interim president of Haiti, Claude Joseph, the director of the
    Haitian National Police (PNH), León Charles, reported that the police had
    arrested the alleged mastermind of the assassination of de-facto president
    Jovenel Moïse: Christian Emmanuel Sanon. Sanon is a Florida-based Christian
    pastor and licensed doctor in Haiti.

    ...

    Sanon's participation, however, has raised many questions. Friends and family
    members of the Florida-based doctor allege that he was set up and that he would
    have never been interested in a plan that involved violence.

    With Sanon's arrest, the total number of people arrested in the case is 21: 3
    Haitian-Americans and 18 Colombians.

    On July 9, Charles had reported that there were at least 28 people involved in
    Moïse's assassination. So far, 21 have been arrested, seven have been killed
    during the clashes with security forces, and the whereabouts of five others are
    still unknown.

    The same day, July 9, Colombian defense minister Diego Molano confirmed that the
    captured mercenaries are Colombian and are retired soldiers of the Colombian
    national army. However, in contrast to Molano's statement, Colombian journalist
    Gonzalo Guillen, investigated the profiles of the detained mercenaries and
    confirmed that at least six detainees are active army personnel and two of them
    are sergeants.

    Meanwhile, in conversation with Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste, Pétionville's
    justice of peace, Clément Noël, reported that according to the statements of the
    two captured Haitian-American mercenaries: James Solages and Joseph Vincent, the
    "mission' was to arrest the president and not to kill him. They said that their
    objective was to serve as translators to the other captured Colombian
    mercenaries. They refused to declare who had sponsored the operation, however,
    their presentation at Moïse's residence as "DEA agents" raise suspicion of the
    participation of the United States in Moise's assassination.

    Furthermore, the illegitimate self-proclamation of Claude Joseph as the
    country's president and the support he enjoys from the country's Police and
    Armed Forces, as well as the recognition from the US and the UN, also provides
    an additional proof of a conspiracy from the United States.

    This weekend, eight out of the ten active senators of the country chose Senator
    Joseph Lambert to be the new interim President because they thought Claude
    Joseph lacked legitimacy since Moise signed a decree replacing him with interior
    minister Ariel Henry just two days before being assassinated. However, Lambert's
    swearing-in event was cancelled and his proclamation was not legitimized.

    On July 9, the US government rejected the Haitian government's request for
    troops to help stabilize the country and secure key infrastructure such as its
    oil reserves, port and airport in the wake of the after Moise's
    assassination. The request was made by Mathias Pierre, the Minister Delegate in
    charge of Electoral Questions, the same day.
    (/quote)
    -- https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/07/14/what-we-know-about-who-is-behind-the-assassination-of-haitis-president/

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