Cubans and Haitans should not try using boats to migrate to the United States, a top Biden administration official said Tuesday. “The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: if you take to the…
Biden Administration Warns Cubans, Haitians Against Sailing to US: ‘Do Not Risk Your Life’
US Delegation to Haiti Met All Three Claimants to Power: White House
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials sent to Haiti by President Joe Biden’s administration in the wake of the assassination of its president met with three politicians who have all staked claims to lead Haiti’s government, the White House said on Monday. Representatives of the White House National Security Council and the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State…
Haitian Police Arrest US-Based Doctor Over Assassination of President
A Haitian-born doctor based in Florida was arrested Sunday and is believed to be a “central” suspect in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse, who was killed early Wednesday during an overnight raid of his home. National police chief Leon Charles announced the arrest of Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old doctor, during a press…
Pentagon Says US Team Going to Haiti to Assess Needs
WILMINGTON, Del.—A team of U.S. security and law enforcement experts is traveling to Haiti to determine what assistance Washington can provide following the assassination of the Haitian president last week, the Pentagon said on Sunday. “Today, an inter-agency team largely from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are heading down to Haiti right…
First Statement by Haiti’s First Lady After Attack
The hospitalized wife of Haiti’s assassinated President Jovenel Moïse has given her first public statement since being wounded in the attack that killed him, accusing enemies of wanting “to kill his dream, his vision, his ideology.” Martine Moïse issued the recorded statement in Creole from the Miami hospital where she was being treated for wounds…
Taiwan Says 11 Arrested at Its Haiti Embassy
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. “As for whether the suspects were involved in the assassination of the President of Haiti, that will need to…
Haiti Suspect’s Wife Says Husband Recruited
BOGOTA, Colombia—The wife of a former Colombian soldier arrested in Haiti in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse says her husband was recruited by a security firm to travel to the Dominican Republic last month. The woman told Colombia’s W Radio on Friday that her husband, Francisco Uribe, was hired for $2,700 a month by…
Wife of Suspect in Assassination of Haiti’s President Says Husband Was Recruited
BOGOTA, Colombia—The wife of a former Colombian soldier arrested in Haiti in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse says her husband was recruited by a security firm to travel to the Dominican Republic last month. The woman told Colombia’s W Radio on Friday that her husband, Francisco Uribe, was hired for $2,700 a month by…
Haiti Seeks Help From US, UN Forces After President’s Assassination
BOGOTA/PORT-AU-PRINCE—Haiti has requested U.S. and U.N. security forces to help it protect key infrastructure like the airport and ports after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise by foreign mercenaries, a government minister said on Friday. The assassination of Moise by a squad of gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in…
As a President Is Assassinated, There Is No ‘Worst’ in Haiti
Commentary My memory for poetry is poor, but half a line from the great innovative religious poet of the second half of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins, sticks in my mind: No worst, there is none. A fuller quote is as follows: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs…
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