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Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president
MIAMI (AP) — A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. Joseph Vincent, a dual...
Authorities in Haiti hold former rebel leader Guy Philippe after the US repatriated him
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti held former rebel leader Guy Philippe on Friday at a police station where he remained a day after the the United States repatriated him to Haiti, his lawyer said. Philippe is a convicted money launderer who played a key role in the...
Coup leader Guy Philippe repatriated to Haiti as many question his next role in country in upheaval
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Notorious coup leader Guy Philippe returned to Haiti on Thursday after the U.S. government repatriated him, sparking concerns that his presence could unleash further upheaval in a country already reeling from gang violence and political instability. It...
UN warns that gang violence is overwhelming Haiti's once peaceful central region
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gangs are invading Haiti’s rural central region, suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country’s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. Only a handful of...
Haitian police say member of a gang accused of kidnapping Americans has been extradited to the US
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian law enforcement authorities said a man belonging to a violent gang accused of kidnapping four U.S. citizens has been extradited to the U.S. Haiti's National Police said Tuesday that Jhon Peter Fleronvil is affiliated with the gang known as...
Police in Haiti detain a new suspect in the 2021 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti on Monday arrested a new suspect in the July 2021 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse. Macky Kessa, mayor of the southern coastal city of Jacmel, was detained but has not been charged, his attorney, Jimmy Jean-Baptiste, told The...
Tropical disturbance hits west Caribbean, causing floods in Jamaica and Haiti before dissipating
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A tropical disturbance moved across the western Caribbean on Friday, knocking out power to thousands in Jamaica and causing two deaths in Haiti as it unleashed landslides and floods before dissipating, authorities said. Some 14,000 customers lost power...
Haitian immigrants sue Indiana over law that limits driver's license access to certain Ukrainians
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge heard arguments Friday from lawyers for a group of Indiana residents from Haiti who are suing the state over a law that allows immigrants in the U.S. on humanitarian parole to get driver's licenses, but only if they are from Ukraine. The five...
Gang attack on Haitian hospital leads to a call for help and an unlikely triumph for police
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The bullets began piercing the windows of the hospital as women cradling young children ran from room to room searching for a safe place to hide while the heavily armed gang drew closer. The louder the gunfire grew, the more the women screamed until a...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Nov. 10-16, 2023 It’s still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping across large swathes of the country. Protesters gathered in Mexico City over the violent death of Jesús Ociel Baena, the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico. A heavily...
