18 arrested in connection with 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse

Five years after Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was shot dead in his bedroom by Colombian mercenaries, American federal courts continue to pursue accountability for a conspiracy that crossed borders and corrupted private security networks. In September 2026, eighteen more suspects were flown to Florida for trial, joining a growing roster of thirty indicted individuals whose fates are being adjudicated far from the country that still bears the wound. Justice, it seems, moves methodically even as the nation it cannot fully reach descends further into disorder — a reminder that legal reckoning a