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Headlines: the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a year later
President Jovenel Moïse, during an interview, in Petion-Ville (Haiti), February 7, 2020. © Dieu Nalio Chery/AP
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A year ago, to the day, "
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his home, in one of the richest neighborhoods of the capital
(Port-au-Prince, editor's note)
, while dozens of police moved aside, letting the assassins pass
,” recalls the
New York Times
, which continues: “
Many Haitians did not like the president, who was deeply unpopular.
But they thought that with this assassination the country would definitely have hit rock bottom.
Instead, the picture remains bleak and a state of anarchy seems to be taking hold in some parts of the country
”.
"A year lost after the great tragedy", sums up
Le Nouvelliste
.
And to better represent the unbearable "
in place
" of Haiti, the newspaper decided to simply bring out "
a skewer of editorials published the first month after the crime
".
Because “
everything that was written a year ago is still valid
”, regrets the editor-in-chief, Frantz Duval.
"
Both the international imbroglio that surrounds crime, the struggle for power, the blockage of democratic institutions, the absence of an agenda, the incapacities of justice, the power of gangs, the difficulty of finding gasoline, the refusal of political actors to dialogue or the stranglehold of the international community on Haitian governance by encouraging the worst.
A year later, it seems that time is suspended, that we lost a year after the great drama without realizing it.
Nothing is progressing.
It's as if every morning was a July 7 that the country discovers with horror
.
While the provisional government will commemorate this Thursday the death of Jovenel Moïse in an official ceremony at the National Pantheon and that the family of the late president will pay homage to him on his lands, in the north of Haiti, the Haitian newspaper
Le National
has chosen to dedicate its editorial, titled “
Dead and Forgotten
” to all those Haitians who are “
dying silently far from the newsrooms
,” whether by bandit bullets, starvation, in a natural disaster, or during a desperate attempt to leave the country.
The fate of the 18 Colombians arrested after the assassination of the president and detained since in Haiti
"
365 days have passed and 18 Colombians imprisoned in Haiti have not been brought before a judge for the murder for which they are in prison
", protests
El Espectador
.
These suspects “
did not benefit from the advice of a court-appointed lawyer either.
And although the press and citizens have already condemned them as the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the truth is that the investigation into the worst crime to ever take place in Haiti has stalled.
In the midst of this lack of judicial guarantees
", continues the Bogota daily, "
are 18 former Colombian soldiers, who, in addition to denouncing the fact that they were tortured, are now demanding that someone take care of their situation. legal
”.
Nicaragua: the Ortega regime expels the nuns of Mother Teresa
In Nicaragua, the regime of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday expelled the nuns of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity, the order created by Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
"
After more than 40 years at the service of the most vulnerable, the sisters were escorted by the General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners to the border with Costa Rica as if they were delinquents
", protests
La Prensa
.
The newspaper recalls that the nuns had "
founded two homes for the elderly, abandoned or with low resources
", "
nurseries where they took care of the babies of single mothers who had no one to take care of their children while 'they worked
', as well as '
a home for abandoned or abused teenage girls
'.
The expulsion of the nuns is the latest example of growing tensions between the Ortega government and NGOs, and more specifically between the president and the Catholic Church.
Four years ago, several religious establishments offered refuge to demonstrators during the repression of social movements.
Also according to information from
La Prensa
, the expelled nuns were “
welcomed in Costa Rica by the Diocese of Tilaran-Liberia
”.
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