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Haiti’s interim government said on Friday it has asked the United States for security assistance to protect the country’s key infrastructure, as it tries to stabilize it and prepare the way for elections following the assassination of President Jovenel. Moïse.
“We definitely need help and we have asked our international partners for help”, Acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph told The Associated Press in an interview, declining to provide further details. “We believe that our partners can help the national police to resolve the situation.”
Joseph said he was dismayed by opponents who tried to take advantage of the assassination of Moïse to seize political power, an indirect reference to a group of legislators who have declared their allegiance and recognized Joseph Lambert, the head of the dismantled senate of Haiti, as provisional president. and Ariel Henry, whom Moïse appointed as Prime Minister one day before his death, as Prime Minister.
“I’m not interested in a power struggle,” Joseph said in the brief telephone interview, without mentioning Lambert for his Name. “There is only one way that people can become president in Haiti. And it is through the elections. ”
Joseph spoke a few hours after the Colombian police chief said that the Colombians implicated in Moïse’s murder were recruited by four companies and traveled to the Caribbean nation in two groups through the Dominican Republic.
Meanwhile, The United States said it would send senior FBI and Homeland Security officials to assist in the investigation into the murder of Jovenel Moïse.
The Chief of the Haitian National Police, Léon Charles, said that 17 suspects have been arrested in the blatant assassination of Moïse that stunned a nation already reeling from poverty, widespread violence and political instability.