Ex-DEA Informant Pleads Guilty to Role in Killing Haitian President
December 5th, 2023Via: Reuters:
Joseph Vincent, a former informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), on Tuesday became the fourth person to plead guilty in a U.S. court for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president that left a destabilizing power vacuum.
A Haitian-American national, Vincent is among 11 defendants, including include Colombian ex-soldiers and businessmen accused of helping supply funds and weapons and carrying out the nighttime attack at President Jovenel Moise’s Port-au-Prince home.
Vincent was arrested days after the attack alongside another Haitian-American, James Solages. Both men initially said they were hired by the conspirators as interpreters.
At the time of the attack, the gunmen reportedly masqueraded as DEA agents, though the DEA later said neither Vincent nor Solages were acting on behalf of the agency.
The govt is now outing its own on selected occasions, upping the general anxiety level by showing no one is indispensable, not even their most loyal, obedient and productive servants. I wonder if they tell them beforehand that they’ll have to take one for the team, so they can feel like heroes.