The government has also not provided any medical, financial, or security support to the survivors. Moïse has not directly denounced the La Saline massacre, nor has his government sought to prosecute any of the perpetrators. Both men, who have denied the allegations, remained in the government's employ-Monchéry as the executive director of the interior ministry, and Duplan as Moïse’s representative for La Saline and the surrounding area-until a few weeks ago, when they were fired by Moïse as the protests intensified. Witnesses accused two top government officials close to Moïse, Joseph Pierre Richard Duplan and Fednel Monchéry, of having been among those who helped to plan the La Saline massacre and providing area gang members with weapons and police uniforms.
Seven women were raped, and many houses were ransacked or burned, according to the Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains. Among them, fifty-nine were reportedly killed.
On November 13, 2018, seventy-three men, women, and children were wounded, tortured, hacked with machetes, and set on fire in La Saline, an impoverished neighborhood of Port-au-Prince where residents had participated in Petrocaribe protests. This debt to Venezuela has grown to almost two billion dollars over the past decade. The Haitian government controlled the sale of the oil and was supposed to use those funds for development projects, including infrastructure, agriculture, education, sanitation, and health. Through the Petrocaribe agreement, the Haitian government bought oil from Venezuela, paid sixty per cent of the purchase price within ninety days, then deferred the rest of the debt, at a one-per-cent interest rate, over twenty-five years. The funds allegedly pilfered in these schemes came from Venezuela’s Petrocaribe oil program, which Haiti joined in 2006.
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Moïse also got more than a hundred thousand dollars for another one of his companies, Comphener S.A., to install solar panels on street lamps. The road for which the money was doubly paid shows no sign of having been constructed or repaired. The two firms were listed as having the same staff and projects, as well as the same government patent and tax-identification number. The government auditors report that Moïse was paid twice for the same contract, once as the head of Agritrans and again as the leader of another firm, called Betexs. According to two reports published earlier this year by Haiti’s Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes, in 2014, before he’d officially become a Presidential candidate, Moïse received more than a million dollars from Martelly’s government, funds that were allocated for road construction and repair in the northern region of the country. Less advertised was that he was also an auto-parts dealer and a supposed road-construction magnate. Unknown to most Haitians until he was handpicked by his predecessor, Michel Martelly-who also came to power through elections mired in fraud-Moïse was presented as a successful rural businessman from outside Haiti’s political class, a banana exporter nicknamed Nèg Bannann, or Banana Man.
A few months into his term, he fired the director of UCREF-a move that probably led to Moïse being cleared of the laundering charges, which he has denied. Even before taking his Presidential oath, Moïse was accused by Haiti’s Central Financial Intelligence Unit ( UCREF) of having laundered millions of dollars. In a country of more than ten million people, about six hundred thousand voted for him. It’s been thirty-two months since Moïse was sworn into office after a contested, fraud-plagued, two-round election cycle in which only eighteen per cent of eligible voters participated. A country must have electricity, water, and roads.” In the accompanying article by the journalist Roberson Alphonse, published in Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper, on August 10, 2017, Moïse is quoted as saying, “When I say the entire country will have electricity twenty-four hours a day in twenty-three months, I will do it.” He added that a President “shouldn’t have to promise that. The couple more or less ignores him while only their baby cheers him on. Eyes closed, he’s standing in the barely lit home of a Haitian family, where he announces that in twenty-three months they will have electricity twenty-four hours a day-even as the father reads a book by candle light and the mother presses clothes with a charcoal-fuelled iron.
Early in his term as President of Haiti, in a cartoon that was either meant to caution or mock him, Jovenel Moïse is shown dressed as a Haitian superhero.
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