NEARLY ALL MEMBERS OF the heavily armed commando team that killed Haiti’s President on July 7 were Colombian citizens, while several served in the military, according to the Haitian National Police.
The attack on the president’s residence,
located in the Pétion-Ville suburb of Port-au-Prince, began after
midnight local time on Wednesday, when a convoy of at least five
vehicles carrying dozens of men arrived at the scene.
The men, described
as “highly trained and heavily armed”, quickly exited the vehicles and
opened fire on the security detail of President Jovenel Moïse. Many
witnesses described the assailants as foreign in appearance and speaking
either English or Spanish —languages that are not widely spoken in
Haiti, where the local languages are Creole and French. These reports
were eventually confirmed when the Haitian National Police identified
two of the assailants as Joseph Vincent, 55, and James Solages, 35, both
American citizens and residents of Miami’s Little Haiti community.
Interestingly, Solages describes himself as a “certified diplomatic
[security] agent” and is believed to have served as head of bodyguards
at the Embassy of Canada in the Haitian capital.
Late on Thursday, Léon Charles, chief of Haiti’s National Police, announced
that 17 suspected assailants had been captured alive, seven killed
during the raid, while at least eight others remained on the run. He
added that all of captured assailants are foreign and all but two are
Colombian citizens. Of those, several are retired members of the
Military Forces of Colombia. Overall, 26 members of the commando team
were Colombian citizens, said Charles. He did not provide further
information. Later that same evening, the Associated Press reported
that Colombian President Ivan Duque instructed his country’s military
leadership to “cooperate in the investigation” by the Haitian
authorities.
Importantly, the precise motive of the
assailants remains unclear. The attack was almost certainly planned well
in advance, and was part of a broader plan to eliminate Moïse, who is
championed and reviled by Haitians in equal measure. But the attack also
appears to have been combined with an effort to justify the killing,
possibly by exposing negative information about the late president
following the attack. This would explain why the assailants did not
leave Moïse’s residency immediately after assassinating him, but instead
ransacked nearly every room of the premises, apparently looking for documents and computer drives.
It is also puzzling how such a heavily
armed team, whose members were described by Haitian authorities as
“well-trained professionals” did not appear to have an exit plan
following the raid on the president’s residence. Their attack was
sophisticated enough to penetrate Moïse’s heavy security detail, and
even reach its target in a safe room inside the building, reportedly
without suffering any losses. However, several assailants were shot dead
or injured in firefights that erupted long after the attack. Eventually
all but eight members of a 28-member commando team were either killed
or captured.
In the hours after the president’s
assassination, Haiti was placed under martial law by the Prime Minister,
Claude Joseph, a Moïse ally who appears to have the backing of the
military. This means little, however, in a country where rival armed
gangs control numerous neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince and other major
cities and towns. Some of these gangs are affiliated with the country’s
two main political parties, the Haitian Tèt Kale Party (which supported
Moïse) and the Alternative League for Haitian Progress and Emancipation,
which refused to acknowledge Moïse as the legitimate head of state
following the national election of 2016.
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