Five years after the brazen assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in his own home, eighteen suspects have been transported from Port-au-Prince to Florida to face federal trial — a reckoning made possible not by Haiti's courts, but by those of its neighbor to the north. The case illuminates a painful paradox: that justice for a nation's slain leader must be sought abroad because the murder itself helped destroy the institutions that might have delivered it. What began as a transnational conspiracy engineered on American soil now returns there for adjudication, even as Haiti — its cap
18 suspects extradited to US for 2021 assassination of Haitian President Moise
President Jovenel Moise was killed in July 2021; his wife was critically injured. The assassination's aftermath enabled armed gangs to expand control, displacing approximately 1.5 million people and causing at least 8,100 documented gang killings in 2025.