Utopia Talk / Politics / Haiti president assassinated

Paramount Member	Wed Jul 07 06:55:58 by foreigners who spoke english: Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated at his home early Wednesday morning by a group of armed individuals, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph announced. Joseph said he was now in charge of the country. Moise's injured wife was in the hospital, according to Joseph, who urged the public to remain calm, and insisted the police and army would ensure the population's safety. "The president was assassinated at his home by foreigners who spoke English and Spanish," Joseph said. Moise had been ruling Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, by decree, after legislative elections due in 2018 were delayed in the wake of disputes, including on when his own term ends. In addition to the political crisis, kidnappings for ransom have surged in recent months, further reflecting the growing influence of armed gangs in the Caribbean nation. Haiti also faces chronic poverty and recurrent natural disasters. The president faced steep opposition from swathes of the population that deemed his mandate illegitimate, and he churned through a series of seven prime ministers in four year. Most recently, Joseph was supposed to be replaced this week after only three months in the post. In addition to presidential, legislative and local elections, Haiti was due to have a constitutional referendum in September after it was twice postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Supported by Moise, the text of the constitutional reform, aimed at strengthening the executive branch, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the opposition and many civil society organizations. The constitution currently in force was written in 1987 after the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship and declares that "any popular consultation aimed at modifying the Constitution by referendum is formally prohibited." Critics had also claimed it was impossible to organizing a poll, given the general insecurity in the country. http://afp...sassinated-interim-pm/a/4zqkK6
obaminated Member	Wed Jul 07 09:14:07 He upset us.
Y2A Member	Wed Jul 07 21:02:00 there was a good vice doc on this guy and his goons very recently. seems he had alot of enemies.
Habebe Member	Wed Jul 07 21:12:36 Y2a, Considering he pretty much was carving out a dictatorship for himself, literally dissolving Congress and such, yeah. That said, I dont think Haiti is reasonably fixable.One of my best friends is Haitian , that place is a shithole, like if Africa was condensed to a small island.
kargen Member	Fri Jul 09 15:57:09 A friend is absolutely convinced that China is behind the assassination. He also thinks China is responsible for all the cyber attacks and that most the Chinese people in the US are part of a sleeper cell.
Paramount Member	Fri Jul 09 16:19:07 Some of the assassins fled to the Taiwanese embassy but were captured. There were two Haiti-Americans and several mercenaries from Colombia. There were also three jeeps with white people in it that fled (the white people fled and left their jeeps) and the police are now hunting them.
Sam Adams Member	Sat Jul 10 00:27:45 Its haiti. Does anyone actually care?
Average Ameriacn Member	Sat Jul 10 07:25:22 The world is helpless without the USA. But we are not the world police. http://www...dominican-republic-2021-07-09/ U.S rebuffs Haiti troops request after president's assassination WASHINGTON/PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 9 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday rebuffed Haiti's request for troops to help secure key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise by suspected foreign mercenaries, even as it pledged to help with the investigation. The killing of Moise by a squad of gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in Port-au-Prince pitched Haiti deeper into a political crisis which may worsen growing hunger, gang violence and a COVID-19 outbreak. read more Haitian Elections Minister Mathias Pierre said a request for U.S. security assistance was raised in a conversation between interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday. Haiti also made a request for forces to the United Nations Security Council, Pierre said. But a senior U.S. administration official said there were "no plans to provide U.S. military assistance at this time." A letter from Joseph's office to the U.S. embassy in Haiti, dated Wednesday and reviewed by Reuters, requested the dispatch of troops to support the national police in reestablishing security and protecting key infrastructure across the country following Moise's assassination. A similar letter, also dated Wednesday and seen by Reuters, was sent to the U.N. office in Haiti. "We were in a situation where we believed that infrastructure of the country – the port, airport and energy infrastructure – might be a target," Pierre told Reuters. Another aim of the request for security reinforcements would be to make it possible to go ahead with scheduled presidential and legislative elections on Sept. 26, Pierre said. The U.N. political mission in Haiti received the letter and it was being examined, said Jose Luis Diaz, spokesman for the U.N. Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. “The dispatch of troops under any circumstances would be a matter for the (15-member) Security Council to decide,” he said.
kargen Member	Sat Jul 10 14:56:07 If they were white and/or had oil we would send troops. That is what a left wing nut would say. They might be right about the oil part.
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