§ 06 — Coda
A dead president.
A dead government?
Jovenel Moïse was killed in his bedroom on July 7, 2021. Five years later, the case has produced ten U.S. convictions, but no satisfactory answer to the key questions Haitians really want to know: who ordered it? And why?
His phone is still missing. His surveillance server is in American hands. Five Haitian judges have resigned from the file. One of the accused, a sitting magistrate, died before she could be deposed. Another walked out of the National Penitentiary during a gang raid and vanished.
The government that followed Moïse’s death has also met its demise, in many ways. There is no elected president. There is no functioning parliament. The Transitional Presidential Council fights itself. Ministries operate from hotel rooms. Gangs hold most of Port-au-Prince, including the road to the courthouse where the Moïse file is meant to be heard.
The president was murdered.
The republic now lies beside him.
