President of Haiti assassinated - BREAKING

[superpatriotman]

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated overnight during an armed attack at his private residence, a top Haitian official confirmed to Local 10 News Wednesday.
First Lady Martine Moïse was shot during the attack and is hospitalized, interim Premier Claude Joseph said.
Haitian news outlets reported that a group of people, some of whom spoke in Spanish, stormed the home around 1 a.m. Wednesday.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/07/07/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-during-armed-attack-at-home/

The nation of more than 11 million people had grown increasingly unstable and disgruntled under Moïse’s rule.
Its economic, political and social woes have deepened, with gang violence spiking heavily in the capital of Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day.
These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.

https://www.cnn.com/americas/live-news/haiti-president-assassinated-updates-intl/index.html

White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki called the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise a "horrific crime" and pledged that the Biden administration will stand with the people of Haiti.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57750358

First Lady Martine Moïse was also injured in the attack.
Mr Joseph said that "all measures had been taken to guarantee the continuity of the state".
He has now taken control of the impoverished Caribbean nation, and has urged the public to remain calm.

[hookaleft]

1. gnarly.......

[Carlitos Brigante]

2. K&R!

[Hortensis]

3. Well, a way of dealing with a president who won't leave.

A week or so ago the United States "condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental freedoms and attacks on the press in Haiti, urging the government to counter a proliferation of gangs and violence." Reportedly our embassy is closed today.

Those poor people. Haitians need a break, one that sticks, and I hope we somehow help them make it happen.

[secondwind]

4. Exactly. He refused to leave in February 2021..

Began amassing an intelligence agency that only answered to him, et al

He wanted to be a dictator. I live next door and as far as I can tell, this was not a bad thin, god forgive me.

The last thing Haitians needed was another dictator.

[Hortensis]

5. Any notion what might come next?

[lostnfound]

9. Probably depends on who instigated this one.

Which outside power is behind it. And I’d guess that’s a question that would be hard to get the truth about.

https://www.wlrn.org/commentary/2021-02-11/u-s-reverses-its-president-precedent-in-haiti-is-it-moises-invitation-to-dictatorship

[secondwind]

13. Just saw this.... I have no idea. Am sure the border with

Dominican Republic will be secured tightly. These tragedies just make immigration explode, and these poor folks can never catch a break.

I remember reading once about bus loads of Haitians having been imported to DR to work on construction of a high rise, with promise of pay after completion. Once completed, they were put in buses going back to Haiti. Never got paid. 😩

[superpatriotman]

6. Yet the next thing they're going to get is...

…another dictator…

[malaise]

10. The US and France created the mess in Jaiti

long before that earthquake

[EffieBlack]

7. Tragic

[lostnfound]

8. Aristide is in Cuba getting treated for COVID

As of a couple weeks ago.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210625-haiti-ex-president-aristide-being-treated-for-covid-in-cuba

[malaise]

11. First lady also died

in hospital a short while ago. Being reported in Jamaica

[secondwind]

12. Just horrible.....

[Sucha NastyWoman]

14. What needs to be done here?

Seems like they have so many problems there. Where does a fix even start?

We’ve made it our business to try to improve conditions around the world, in many countries. And yet Haiti is our neighbor, but we aren’t compelled to improve conditions there. Is it that they don’t have valuable natural resources to protect?

[malaise]

15. This one is complex

He had long overstayed his welcome - he refused to step down.

And by the way, the US has rarely tries to make conditions right - the US, like the rest of world powers, secures its interests. Both Papa Doc and baby Doc were US backed dictators.

[liberal_mama]

16. My dentist is Haitian. I wonder how he feels about this

He came to the United States when he was 12 years old when Baby Doc was in charge.