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Exclusive: Leaked documents obtained by CNN reveal death threats and roadblocks in Haiti assassination investigation

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Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. Vous pouver traduire cet article dans la langue de votre choix dans la case de selection By  Caitlin Hu ,  Matt Rivers , Etant Dupain and  Natalie Gallón , CNN Photos and video by David von Blohn. Updated 11:47 PM ET, Mon July 26, 2021 Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) There was no mistaking the meaning in last week's anonymous text message: Do what we say or die. "Hey clerk, get ready for a bullet in your head, they gave you an order and you keep on doing shit," read the July 16 text, one of several death threats sent to court clerks assisting Haiti's investigation into the murder of former President Jovenel Moise, according to official complaints filed with Haitian police and seen by CNN. They're part of a cache of Internal Justice Ministry docum...

Haitians can no longer hide behind the caste system killing our country

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Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. Vous pouver traduire cet article dans la langue de votre choix dans la case de selection BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE JUL. 16, 2021 My mother’s side of the family came from Miragoâne, the coastal southern city whose economy was bauxite. We have a range of hues across the skin color spectrum — from my uncle Lionel Duval, who could pass for white, if he wanted, to my dark mocha.  We were close-knit, with Lionel being the patriarch and the family’s counselor. .  My mom always spoke reverently of my uncle because he pushed her to excel. He was very proud of me too. When I became a professional, he would swoon or call for a chat after seeing me on television or reading one of my stories. That’s just the way he was. He embraced his family’s diversity of skin color.  Strang...

Plusieurs personnes liées au complot d'assassinat en Haïti étaient auparavant des informateurs pour le ministère étasunien de la Justice

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Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. Vous pouver traduire cet article dans la langue de votre choix dans la case de selection Haiti President Jovenel Moise October 2019 selon CNN Plusieurs des hommes impliqués dans l'opération qui a tué le président haïtien travaillaient auparavant comme informateurs pour le ministère américain de la Justice, selon des personnes possedant des informations sur ce sujet, alors que les enquêteurs américains sont aux prises avec un nombre croissant de liens entre la Floride et l'escouade présumée. Au moins un des hommes arrêtés par les autorités haïtiennes travaillait auparavant comme informateur pour la Drug Enforcement Administration des États-Unis, a déclaré la DEA dans un communiqué en réponse à CNN.   « Parfois, l'un des suspects de l'assassinat du président h...

Assassinat du président haïtien: la traque du commando se poursuit

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Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. Vous pouver traduire cet article dans la langue de votre choix dans la case de selection   À l’ONU, le Conseil de sécurité appelle les Haïtiens au calme après la mort de Jovenel Moïse. Pendant ce temps la traque des assassins se poursuit. La police haïtienne a annoncé que le commando armé responsable de l'assassinat du président était composé de 26 Colombiens et de deux Américains originaires d'Haïti.   La police haïtienne semble désormais en savoir un peu plus sur le commando responsable de l'assassinat du président Jovenel Moïse dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi. Selon elle, il était composé de 28 personnes. « Il s'agissait d'un commando de 28 assaillants, dont 26 Colombiens qui ont mené l'opération pour assassiner le président », a indiqué Léon Ch...

Haiti official: Arrests made in slaying of President Moïse

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Google Translater for Website Click on the dropdown button to translate. Translate this page: You can translate the content of this page by selecting a language in the select box. Vous pouver traduire cet article dans la langue de votre choix dans la case de selection   EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Wed, July 7, 2021, 5:20 AM In this article: Claude Joseph Acting prime minister of Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s communications secretary says police have arrested the “presumed assassins” of President Jovenel Moïse. Frantz Exantus did not provide further details about Wednesday's slaying of Moïse and the wounding of his wife, or say how many suspects had been arrested. The killing is sure to bring more chaos to the unstable Caribbean country already beset by gang violence, soaring inflation and protests by opposition supporters who accused Moïse of increasing authoritarianism. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said the police and milita...

Dealing with bullies and jerks in science

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By  Alaina G. Levine Jun. 21, 2021 , 1:55 PM Wouldn’t it be fabulous if we could do science surrounded only by kind and caring colleagues? Unfortunately, science involves humans, and let’s face it—some of them are jerks. Some are bullies. Some are harassers. Some are disgusting zombie creatures who exist only to suck the life out of our souls. These creatures spew their garbage into the world and don’t relent. Their purpose is to propagate filth in irrational service of their own survival. Undoubtedly, you have encountered some of these monsters. I certainly have. I have been  writing  and speaking about how to identify, cope with, and flee from creeps for years. It is disturbing and exhausting that we still have to deal with what sometimes feels like a pandemic of pigs. This is a systemic cultural issue that needs to be addressed at many levels, including through policies and actions from institutions, funding agencies, employers, human resources departments, and adminis...