Live Live Updates: Haiti Hunts Down President’s Assassins as Crisis Deepens The Haitian authorities said they had killed four people who took part in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and arrested two others. Police officers and a forensics team looking for evidence outside the presidential residence near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday. Rodney Saint-Éloi, a Haitian-Canadian poet and publisher in Montreal, said the assassination of Mr. Moïse was a blow to democracy in Haiti. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Port-au-Prince, 2010. During his time in office, Mr. Moïse was often accused of being a strongman who tried to consolidate power.

Source: International New York Times July 08, 2021 08:03 UTC