By: Staff Writer
July 13, 2021
Miami is becoming the centre point of Haitian president Jovenel Moise’s assassination as Colombian mercenaries held in Haitian custody claim they were hired by Miami security firm owned and operated by a Venezuelan national.
Less than a week after Moise’s assassination at his home in Port au Prince, the 18 Colombian mercenaries and two Haitian American men are talking to authorities on how they were involved in the Haitian president’s assassination. There are 20 suspects in all, Friday evening officers had detained the 18th Colombian accused assassins.
Chief Léon Charles told reporters in Port-au-Prince that there were 28 suspects all together and three had died in a shootout. By Friday evening, the police had identified the 20 suspects detained. There are five more suspects still on the run in Haiti. All of the men were on the ground in Haiti for at least two months prior to Moise’s assassination.
He said the suspects, including the Haitian Americans, confirmed that they worked for a company “based in the U.S .and Colombia. They worked with the two Haitian Americans and a high-profile doctor here.”
As reported in the Miami Herald a person who interviewed the detained Colombians in Haiti said that the men claimed to have been recruited to do work in Haiti by an under-the-radar firm in Doral, Florida called CTU Security.It is run by a Venezuelan émigré, Antonio Enmanuel Intriago Valera.
Calls and messages to CTU Security have gone unanswered.
The men, who entered into Haiti from the Dominican Republic, also said they were there to do VIP security work for somebody but have not disclosed who that VIP is or was.
Fingers began to point very early to a Venezuelan connection, but early investigators were unclear of what to make of matters. Now as the men captured are talking to authorities, things are becoming a bit more understandable.
All of the Colombian men are former Colombian military personnel, the Colombian government has come out and confirm as true.
The two Haitian-American men, James Solages and Vincent Joseph, said they were hired as translators only They have also disclosed nothing new to investigators about the people behind CTU Security officials being hired to work in Haiti, or adding any new details to what happened on the early morning president Moise was killed.
The murder of Moise has sent a ripple around the world for its calculated brazenness. While Moise’s popularity was waning in Haiti, no one expected him to be assassinated at his home the way it happened.
Claude Joseph, former acting prime minister is now serving as acting president of Haiti in a confusing state of affairs that had him acting as prime minister since August, 2020 and set to be replaced by Ariel Henry as the next prime minister of Haiti days before president Moïse was assassinated.
Sources have told Caribbean Magazine Plus that Joseph is “part of the game” and needs to be carefully examined as he takes hold of the country in the wake of Moise’s killing. Considering that Henry was set to become prime minister, it is unclear what will happen now, plunging the impoverished country into more confusion and possible chaos.
“We have to find out who put the money up,” sources tell Caribbean Magazine Plus, which is the big question everyone hopes Haitian investigators can answer if they can, but they knew president Moise was “hated by everyone” in Haiti and understand that it was a matter of time.
Christian Emmanuel Sanon, according to CBS news, is a Haitian born 63 year old man living in South Florida who has been arrested as a key conspirator in the assassination of president Moise.
Sanon has been painted as a delusional pretender to the Haitian political scene and his earlier videos suggest that he was experiencing delusions of grandeur of one day becoming the president of Haiti despite making no discernible efforts to create or join a significant political party in Haiti.
Reports state that Sanon arrived in Haiti from Florida in June to help orchestrate the murder of Moise along with the Colombians and two other Haitian-American men in custody in Haiti. His home in Haiti has been raided where they found ammunition, gun parts and most interestingly a D.E.A (Drug Enforcement Agency) hat. There is no motive for Sanon’s actions.