During the Ibero-American summit in the Dominican Republic, the Colombian president said he wanted to visit Haiti after claiming that his country had a responsibility in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse two years ago.
“ I want to go to Haiti, because it is a subject on which the Colombia has joint responsibility “, said Gustavo Petro. He therefore wants to help Haiti get out of the crisis that the country has been experiencing for months, with armed bands that have taken control of part of the territory.
Gustavo Petro did not give a date, but already last year he had asked the Haitians for forgiveness for the assassination of their President Jovenel Moses. It was allegedly committed, among others, by Colombian mercenaries. At least 17 are currently in prison in Port-au-Prince. The American investigation revealed that two men, at the head of a security company in Miami, had planned to sequester Jovenel Moïse to replace him with an American-Haitian.
“He needs democratic help”
“Haiti has helped us to become a free country in the past and because it was Colombian mercenaries who went to kill the Haitian president, thus aggravating the crisis that the country was experiencing, I want to help Haiti, obviously talking with its government, but also with different actors of society, in order to be able to establish a democratic path in Haiti “, did he declare.
” I believe that it is the Haitian people who must first resolve the crisis they are going through, but they need democratic aid, not aid based on arms. “, he added.
During this summit in Santo Domingo, other heads of state spoke about Haiti, this time to defend an external intervention. The President of Costa Rica appealed to the United Nations to ” extinguish the fire “. And the President of the Dominican Republic felt that ” the only way to help Haiti is to pacify it “.
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