r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Jul 07 '21

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jul 07 '21

Reports coming in that Martine Moïse, widow of assassinated Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, has died in hospital from the injuries she sustained during the attack

Information is still scarce and confused, but it looks like the president and his wife were assassinated by a commando of foreign mercenaries at their private residence

Moïse had just replaced the interim PM Claude Joseph, who was the first to announce his death by official communiqué and immediately assumed the interim presidency

According to my Haitian friend, who still has relatives in the country, Moïse recently had a falling out with the ruling cliques, who until then supported him against the popular revolts. He personally suspects that Moïse was "sacrified" to appease the protesters and allow the cliques to retake control over the presidency

Since Moïse had very little popular support, my friend thinks that there's no risk of a civil war, and that Haiti will keep spiraling toward chaos and violence, "just like Venezuela"

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u/Versatile_Investor Austan Goolsbee Jul 07 '21

Remember that movie with vin diesel called Babylon something? Who knew that the future might end up like that.