In the early hours of July 7, unidentified armed men attacked the house of Haiti’s de-facto president Jovenel Moïse and shot him dead.
Claude Joseph reported that he held a meeting with the Core Group, composed of the ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union, the United States of America, as well as representatives from the United Nations and the Organization of American States. He also informed that he spoke for 30 minutes with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, about the assassination and the political crisis.
Haitian civil society organizations and other progressive sectors have expressed concerns about these meetings. They warned that Moise’s assassination could be used as pretext to increase foreign interference and further deepen the socio-political crisis in the country. They condemned that the Core Group has its own economic and geostrategic interests in the country. They recalled that it supported Moïse’s illegitimate government, whose presidential term constitutionally ended on February 7, 2021, as well as his unconstitutional plans to hold legislative and presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on September 26, 2021, despite the widespread popular rejection.
Jubileo Sur / Americas, a network of social movements, people, ecumenical, women’s and human rights organizations, political formations, campaigns in Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasized that “it is important to prevent a new military occupation and reject the option of the occupation of multilateral forces which have already shown that their presence exacerbated the Haitian crisis and are responsible between 2004 and 2015 for serious crimes against Haiti and multiple violations of the basic rights of the nation.”
