{"id":43862,"date":"2021-07-07T11:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-at-home\/"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:23:22","slug":"haiti-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti President Jovenel Mo\u00efse assassinated at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Martine Mo\u00efse was hospitalized following the overnight attack, interim Premier Claude Joseph said. The nation of more than 11 million people had grown increasingly unstable and disgruntled under Mo\u00efse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s security situation is under the control of the National Police of Haiti and the Armed Forces of Haiti,\u201d Joseph said in a statement from his office. \u201cDemocracy and the republic will win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Haitian Embassy in Canada also confirmed Mo\u00efse was killed in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning hours of Wednesday, the streets were largely empty in the Caribbean nation\u2019s capital of Port-au-Prince, but some people ransacked businesses in one area.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph said police have been deployed to the National Palace and the upscale community of P\u00e9tionville and will be sent to other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph condemned the assassination as a \u201chateful, inhumane and barbaric act.\u201d He said some of the attackers spoke in Spanish but offered no further explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti\u2019s economic, political and social woes have deepened recently, with gang violence spiking heavily in the capital of Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Mo\u00efse, who was 53, had been ruling by decree for more than two years after the country failed to hold elections, which led to Parliament being dissolved. Opposition leaders have accused him of seeking to increase his power, including approving a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, opposition leaders demanded that he step down, arguing that his term legally ended in February 2021. Mo\u00efse and supporters maintained that his term began when he took office in early 2017, following a chaotic election that forced the appointment of a provisional president to serve during a year-long gap.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti was scheduled to hold general elections later this year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38850 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/haiti.jpg\" alt=\"Haitian businessman Jovenel Moise addresses the audience after being declared the official winner of the November 2016 presidential elections, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 3, 2017. Photo Jeanty Junior Augustin | Reuters\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Haitian President Jovenel Mo\u00efse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence, the country\u2019s interim prime minister said in a statement Wednesday, calling it a \u201chateful, inhumane and barbaric act.\u201d}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2759],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-cnbc"],"bylines":[{"id":2759,"name":"CNBC","slug":"cnbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2759,"name":"CNBC","slug":"cnbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43862"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43862"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}