{"id":584866,"date":"2021-07-07T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584866"},"modified":"2021-07-07T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:20:42","slug":"breaking-haitian-president-assassinated-in-hateful-inhumane-and-barbaric-act-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-haitian-president-assassinated-in-hateful-inhumane-and-barbaric-act-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Haitian President Assassinated In \u2018Hateful, Inhumane, And Barbaric Act,\u2019 Official Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-haitian-president-assassinated-in-hateful-inhumane-and-barbaric-act-official-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584866&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jovenel-MoiCC88se.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Haitian President Jovenel Mo\u00efse was assassinated in his private residence overnight, according to Haitian government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Haitian interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph called the attack on Mo\u00efse a \u201chateful, inhumane and barbaric act\u201d in a statement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/haitian-president-jovenel-moise-assassinated\">Fox News<\/a>. First Lady Martine Mo\u00efse was shot during the attack and is being treated at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph said that he will take over as interim president while the government rebounds from Mo\u00efse\u2019s death. Joseph also said that the group that targeted Mo\u00efse is still at large and has yet to be identified. He said that some members of the group spoke Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s security situation is under the control of the National Police of Haiti and the Armed Forces of Haiti,\u201d Joseph statement said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/07\/haiti-president-jovenel-mose-assassinated-at-home-says-official.html\">CNBC<\/a>. \u201cDemocracy and the republic will win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haiti has been increasingly unstable under economic and societal pressures. Opposition leaders in Haiti have used the dismal state of affairs to slam Mo\u00efse, and many critics of the president have demanded he step down amid claims that he has overstayed his legal term in the office. As CNBC reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>Haiti\u2019s economic, political and social woes have deepened recently, with gang violence spiking heavily in Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times in a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Opposition leaders accused Mo\u00efse, who was 53, of seeking to increase his power, including by approving a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In recent months, opposition leaders demanded he step down, arguing that his term legally ended in February 2021. Mo\u00efse and supporters maintained that his term began when he took office in early 2017, following a chaotic election that forced the appointment of a provisional president to serve during a year-long gap.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki described the attack on Mo\u00efse as \u201chorrific\u201d and \u201ctragic\u201d in an interview on MSNBC. Psaki added that President Joe Biden would be briefed on the situation later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a prerecorded interview on CNN, Psaki gave a message to the Haitian people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message to the people of Haiti is this is a tragic tragedy,\u201d she said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/official-haiti-president-jovenel-mose-assassinated-home-78705284\">ABC News<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a horrific crime and we\u2019re so sorry for the loss that they are all suffering and going through as many of them are waking up this morning and hearing this news. And we stand ready and stand by them to provide any assistance that\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox News, frustration against Mo\u00efse has grown partly because his government has refused to hold elections, instead ruling the country by decree.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haitian President Jovenel Mo\u00efse was assassinated in his private residence overnight, according to Haitian government officials.Haitian interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph called the attack on Mo\u00efse a \u201chateful, inhumane and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314139,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jovenel-MoiCC88se.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Haitian President Assassinated In \u2018Hateful, Inhumane, And Barbaric Act,\u2019 Official Says","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jovenel-MoiCC88se.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Haitian President Assassinated In \u2018Hateful, Inhumane, And Barbaric Act,\u2019 Official Says","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}