PORT-AU-PRINCE — The government of Haiti declared a two-week state of emergency to help it hunt down the killers of President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead by gunmen with assault rifles in his private residence overnight on Wednesday which has sparked fears of further descent into chaos in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The assassination also drew condemnation from Washington and neighboring Latin American countries, as it came amid political unrest, a surge in gang violence, and a growing humanitarian crisis in the poorest nation in the Americas.
Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, described Moise’s killers as a group of “foreign mercenaries” and …
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