A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, was composed of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities have said. Police chief Charles Leon paraded 17 men before journalists at a news conference late on Thursday, showing a number of Colombian passports plus assault rifles, machetes, walkie-talkies and materials including bolt cutters and hammers. He said 15 Colombians were captured, as well as two Haitian Americans.
Sojourner Truth Radio: July 9, 2021 – Roundtable On Haiti & Afghanistan
Today on Sojourner Truth, our weekly roundtable. This week, we focus on the latest news in Haiti and Afghanistan. Our panelists are Laura Carlsen, Jackie Goldberg, Dr. Gerald Horne, and David Comissiong, Barbados’s Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
The ongoing crisis in Haiti following the assassination of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise. We speak with David Comissiong, Barbados’s Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Heads of government of CARICOM have issued a statement in the wake of the assassination of Moise. The heads of government strongly condemned the act as abhorrent and reprehensible, pointing out that this comes at a time of deep turmoil and institutional weakness in the country. Moise, a U.S.-backed former banana exporter from the private sector, had been accused of rampant corruption and human rights abuses. His assassination takes place within the context of longstanding U.S. support for right-wing dictators friendly to Washington and Wall Street. It also forms part of the long history of U.S. destabilization in Haiti and in Latin America and the Caribbean.
On Wednesday, April 14, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he plans to fully withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, ending 20 years of U.S. military occupation. The occupation has taken the lives of at least 2,300 U.S. troops and more than 100,000 Afghanis, according to most estimates. Thousands more have been injured, physically and mentally, with physical disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorders. On Thursday, July 8, President Joe Biden delivered a strong defense of his decision to end the war in Afghanistan, insisting no amount of sustained U.S. presence there could resolve the country’s own systemic problems.