““I am not a dictator,” Haitian President Jovenel Moise said.”
It’s Haiti. Of course he’s a dictator. Maybe not on the same scale as Papa Doc Andrew Cuomo, but still, there it is.
2 Americans Are Among Those Arrested In The Assassination Of Haiti’s President
NPR ^ | July 8, 20214:37 PM ET
Posted on 7/8/2021, 9:35:24 PM by BenLurkin
Two men believed to be Haitian Americans — one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince — have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.
Prime Minister Claude Joseph assumed leadership of Haiti with the backing of police and the military and on Thursday asked people to reopen businesses and go back to work as he ordered the reopening of the international airport.
On Wednesday, Joseph decreed a two-week state of siege following Moïse’s killing, which stunned a nation grappling with some of the Western Hemisphere’s highest poverty, violence and political instability.
Inflation and gang violence have spiraled upward as food and fuel grew scarcer in a country where 60% of Haitians earn less than $2 a day. The increasingly dire situation comes as Haiti is still trying to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 following a history of dictatorship and political upheaval.
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