Haiti has been struggling with lawlessness fueled by violent gangs and Henry said he wants to create conditions for as many people as possible to vote in elections, currently scheduled for September.
He called for continued international support for the government, which has received billions in aid since a devastating earthquake in Outgoing former Prime Minister Claude Joseph said Henry's appointment was intended to facilitate elections, which were last held in He also warned of a tough task ahead. Ariel Henry, tapped by late Haitian President Jovenel Moise to be the new prime minister just days before he was assassinated, arrives to the official memorial services for Moise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 20, Both Henry and Joseph stressed the government needed to restore order and security as well as work to strengthen an economy wrecked by crime and the coronavirus pandemic.
The congressional Haiti caucus in the U. In one recent example, gangs were instrumental in preventing gas and diesel imports from entering the country. They also decide which kidnap victims will be released and which will be killed. The commission must be empowered to take over soon. Otherwise more dark and dire days will follow. A country cannot go much farther down this road.
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Haiti's official languages are Creole and French, while the Colombian suspects speak Spanish. One of the Haitian Americans said he had been given what he believed was an arrest warrant for the president. Most of the Colombian detainees have been identified as former soldiers, including a lieutenant-colonel. Family members told Colombian media their loved ones had told them that they had been hired "to provide security" in Haiti.
After retiring from the army, many Colombian soldiers go on to work for security firms abroad, mainly in the United Arab Emirates, where they are valued for their training and experience in fighting armed groups. Haitian police announced on 11 July they had arrested a "key suspect" in the president's assassination.
Mr Charles said Mr Sanon was "the first person" that one of the Colombian suspects had called when police surrounded them. He added that the year-old doctor, who resides in Florida, had arrived in Haiti on a private jet in early June with "political motives". Mr Charles said that police had found weapons, ammunition and a Drug Enforcement Administration cap in his possession.
The police chief suggested that the Colombians might have been duped by Mr Sanon, who was planning to become Haiti's president.
One of those on the run is Joseph Felix Badio, a former official in the justice ministry's anti-corruption unit. Video footage, not independently verified but thought to have been taken by residents, shows armed men dressed in black arriving in several vehicles.
Haiti's ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond, said that while the attackers had disguised themselves as US drug agents, he believed there was "no way" they really were US agents. Officials say that the ground between the property's gatehouse and the residence was littered with cartridge cases, indicating that multiple shots were fired. Yet the only people injured by bullets were the president and his wife, a fact which has raised questions about the possible complicity of the president's guards.
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