U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. EX-DEA INFORMANT PLEADS GUILTY IN HAITIAN PRESIDENT’S 2021 ASSASSINATION U.S. Customs and Border Protection said
Former Drug Enforcement Administration informant Joseph Vincent has pleaded guilty to his role in the successful 2021 plot to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Vincent, a dual Haitian-American citizen, faces life in prison on various conspiracy charges. Moïse’s assassination is often blamed
The FBI added Haitian gang leader Vitel’Homme Innocent to the agency’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list for his alleged role in kidnapping 16 Americans and the killing of another. A Nov. 7, 2022, federal indictment charged Innocent with conspiracy to commit hostage-taking
A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director of the medical center who pleaded for help via social media. Jose Ulysse, founder and director of
A powerful and feared gang leader in Haiti who was once a math and physics teacher was killed in a neighborhood within a sprawling seaside slum that he controlled for years, local media reported on Monday. The death of Iskar Andrice, who
Germán Alejandro Rivera García, a 45-year-old former Colombian army officer, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Rivera, known as “Colonel Mike,” was part of a convoy deployed to Moïse’s residence
A former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was arrested Thursday in Haiti’s capital after being on the run for more than two years, police said. Joseph Badio once worked
Haiti declined Thursday to join neighboring Dominican Republic in reopening a key commercial border crossing, leaving some trade at a standstill and prolonging a diplomatic crisis over the construction of a canal on Haitian soil. Dominican President Luis Abinader had closed all
Migrants, mostly from Haiti, burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico on Monday, demanding papers. Throngs of migrants knocked over metal barricades and rushed into the office in the city of Tapachula, pushing past National Guard officers and police stationed at
Two telecommunication companies in Haiti said their fiber optic cables were severed this week, temporarily leaving customers without service in what were suspected acts of sabotage by criminal gangs. ‘LAWLESS’ HAITI PLAGUED BY CORRUPTION AND DEADLY GANG VIOLENCE FUELS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Digicel