Haiti: Assassinated President’s wife Jovenel Moise speaks | Latin America News

The wife of the assassinated President of Haiti Jovenel Moise has spoken for the first time since gunmen attacked the couple in Port-au-Prince, saying the attack that killed her husband took place “in the blink of an eye”.

In an audio message posted on her official Twitter account on Saturday, Martine Moise urged Haiti not to “get lost” after the bombing that left her with serious injuries.

“I am alive, thank God,” Martine Moise told Creole in an obedient message, in which Haitian Minister of Culture and Communications Pradel Henriquez confirmed to AFP that it was true.

“I am alive but my husband Jovenel is dead,” she added.

Jovenel Moise, 53, was killed by gunmen early Wednesday morning in what Haitian officials said was “a well-coordinated partnership with a well-trained and military team”.

Haiti has announced that it will be “surrounded” 15 days after its death, promising to prosecute the perpetrators.

Haitian officials say commando armed with 28 men – 26 Colombians and two Haitians – entered and opened the couple’s home. Seventeen people have been arrested so far and at least three are suspected killed, but no objective has been identified publicly.

Martine Moise was taken to a Haitian hospital after the attack and later transferred to Miami, Florida, for further treatment.

“In the blink of an eye, terrorists stormed my house and opened fire on my husband … without giving him a chance to speak,” she said in a message.

He also said that artisans were sent to kill their husbands “because of roads, water, electricity and referendum and elections at the end of the year so that there is no change in the country ”.

“I’m crying, it’s true, but we can’t let the country go astray,” said Martine Moise. “We will not allow his blood … to be taken away in vain.”

Struggle for power

Jovenel Moise has been President since 2017 on the rise Group violence which has driven thousands of people across Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in recent weeks, and this has been evident journalist and political activist was killed.

In recent months, the country has been shaken great shows while the Haitians urged Moses to step down, saying he had passed his five-year term – a view shared by judges, political parties and the country’s political opponents. But Moise has stated that his leadership will end next year.

His death has left Haiti, a very poor man, increasingly politically unstable – especially since his death, Moise was rule by law and was charged with seizing several key agencies in order to operate.

The power struggle seems to be starting with aurosurgeon Ariel Henry, who was elected prime minister by Jovenel Moise a few days after his assassination, said he – not the prime minister – should lead the country.

“After the assassination, I became a senior, superintendent and permanent member because there was a law for me to be elected,” Henry told Reuters in a telephone interview Friday.

Henry had not been sworn in instead of Joseph at the time of the assassination, however, which led to confusion over the issue of Haiti’s legitimate leader.

Claude Joseph, who was appointed prime minister in April after Joseph Jouthe’s resignation, has taken over the reins of government, leading the way in which the government assassinated him. I beg in the United States support and advertising “siege days” 15 days.

Elections Minister Mathias Pierre said Joseph would remain in office until the presidential and parliamentary elections on September 26.

Under Haitian law of 1987, the Supreme Court head is required to be interim president.

But inconsistent changes claim to be the Prime Minister, or, last year of a Presidential decree – as was the case with Moise – for parliament to elect a President.

People respond outside the police station on suspicion of assassination of President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, on July 8 [File: Estailove St-Val/Reuters]

In addition, the head of the Supreme Court died last month after being caught with COVID-19 inside the prevalence of the disease. There is no parliament where the parliamentary elections scheduled for late 2019 were suspended amid political unrest.

Andre Michel, a Haitian lawyer and political leader, said on Friday night that “the solution to the political crisis should be Haitian and especially the one that is co-operative between politicians, government agencies, the Diaspora and rural groups”.

“Any other method is unhealthy and dead on arrival,” he said he wrote.