Four people convicted of conspiracy in US trial tied to 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president
The men were also convicted of violating the U.S. Neutrality Act and could face life sentences, prosecutors said.
- On Friday, a Florida jury convicted Antonio Intriago, Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Walter Veintemilla, and James Solages of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel, facing potential life sentences.
- Prosecutors alleged South Florida served as the planning hub for the plot to replace Haitian President Jovenel, where Ortiz and Intriago operated the Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and Counter Terrorist Unit Security.
- On July 7, 2021, about two dozen foreign mercenaries mostly from Colombia attacked Haitian President Jovenel's home near Port-au-Prince, wounding his wife, Martine, during the assault.
- Christian Sanon, a dual Haitian-American citizen, was initially favored by conspirators to replace Haitian President Jovenel; Solages coordinated with Sanon while at least five others pleaded guilty and face life sentences.
- The trial concluded in Miami nearly two months after it began, as this assassination led to unprecedented turmoil in Haiti and the Caribbean, where gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered.
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According to the prosecutors, the four recruited twenty former Colombian soldiers and provided them with money, weapons, ammunition, and bulletproof vests to assassinate the president.
The death of the leader exacerbated the chaos in the poorest country in the Americas, which has not held an election since 2016 and has been without a president since the assassination. Source link: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/05/09/quatre-hommes-reconnus-coupables-aux-etats-unis-pour-leur-participation-au-complot-qui-a-abouti-a-l-assassinat-du-president-haitien-jovenel-moise_6687337_3210.html Author: Publish date: 2026-05-…
Four men were convicted this Friday by a federal jury in Miami for their role in the plot that in July 2021 led to the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a crime that precipitated the Caribbean country into a spiral of violence, institutional vacuum and territorial domination of armed gangs that persists to this day. Verdicts fell on Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Tientimilla and James Solages, who could spend the rest o…
Nine people have already been convicted in the United States of the assassination perpetrated in Haiti by a group of mercenaries, including 17 Colombian ex-military personnel.
A Florida jury on Friday found four men guilty of conspiracy in the context of the assassination, in 2021, of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose death plunged this Caribbean country into unprecedented agitation.
Four South Florida Men Found Guilty in Plot to Kill Haiti’s President
A federal jury in Miami on Friday found four South Florida men guilty of plotting to assassinate President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti five years ago. Despite the verdicts, the case has still left many people wondering who ordered the hit that sent the country spiraling into years of violent chaos. Moïse was an unpopular president engaged in a bitter feud with economic elites in Haiti, whom he accused of monopolizing major industries, like energy, po…
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