The still-grieving wife of assassinated former Haitian President Jovenel Moise has formally asked US President Donald Trump to declassify documents relating to her husband’s 2021 murder so she and local authorities could understand the complete plot.
In a stirring plea to Trump, Martina Moise said that, like Trump, her husband had undertaken similar ambitious administrative and fiscal reforms in Haiti. For that, he was targeted by entrenched interests. She also said her husband, killed when gunmen stormed his private home on July 7, 2021, was not that lucky to have escaped assassination attempts like Trump while he was on the campaign trail last year.
“Like you, he was targeted with a coordinated character assassination campaign for his ambitious and bold reforms. Also, like you, he was the target of physical assassination attempts. Unlike you, those attempts were successful and he was killed on July 7, 2021. On that day, I was shot several times and left for dead while my kids sheltered in the other room. Since I was the target of three assassination attempts. Today, the perpetrators of this heinous act control the executive and judiciary branches of government and are ruling Haiti with the gangs. The Haitian people want justice, peace, and opportunity,” she wrote in the missive to Trump.
She asked that federal files on the assassination be declassified, as well as those held by the FBI, the State Department, or any other federal agency.
“As you root out corruption and waste in your government. It’s also time for Haiti, in accordance with its constitution, to have a prime minister heading the executive branch to destroy the gangs and organize free and fair elections for the return of constitutional order,” said a distraught Ms. Moise.
Since that fateful night when Moise was killed, the Caribbean Community country has been plunged into a state of chaos with heavily armed gangs roaming the capital, killing people, including police officers, and attacking neighborhoods.
Several local men and former Colombian soldiers have been arrested and are in jail for Moise’s murder.
Fellow CARICOM governments have helped install an interim government to organize elections next year, as no elected officials are running the country as terms have long expired.
