Jovenel Moïse

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Jovenel Moïse (2017)

Jovenel Moïse (born June 26, 1968 in Trou-du-Nord , Département Nord-Est , † July 7, 2021 in Port-au-Prince ) was a Haitian politician and Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti. Moïse was President of Haiti from February 7, 2017 until his assassination on July 7, 2021 .

Life

The son of Etienne Moïse and Lucia Bruno moved with his family to Port-au-Prince in the summer of 1974 , where he attended the École Nationale Don Durélin elementary school, the Lycée Toussaint Louverture and the cultural center at the Collège Canado-Haïtien . At the Université Quisqueya , founded in 1988, he first studied education and then switched to political science.

In 1996 he married his classmate Marie Martine Etienne Joseph and moved with her to Port-de-Paix in northern Haiti to develop the hinterland. With Martine he founded JOMAR Auto Parts and a banana plantation of 10 hectares. Shortly thereafter, he started a project for clean water in rural areas, on which he had been working with Culligan - a US water treatment company - in Port-au-Prince since 2001. With loans from financial institutions and individuals, he opened a waterworks for the north-west and north-east regions.

In 2004 he became a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the North West (Chambre de Commerce et de l'Industrie du Nord-Ouest; CCINO), and he was soon elected President. He later became Secretary General of the Haiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CHIC). Interested in the electrification of the region, he founded Compagnie Haïtienne d'Energie SA (COMPHENER SA) with associated companies in 2008. Agritrans SA followed in 2012 and its participation in the first agricultural free trade zone NOURRIBIO near Trou-du-Nord .

President

In 2015, President Michel Martelly named Moïse as a presidential candidate for the Parti haïtien Tèt Kale (PHTK, "Tèt Kale" means bald head in Haitian Creole ). During the election campaign, Moïse presented himself as “Nèg Bannann” ( Kreyòl : literally “banana man” in the sense of “worker in a banana plantation”), that is, someone who has learned to work. In the runoff election for the presidential election on November 20, 2016, he received - according to the preliminary election result announced by the “Conseil Électoral Provisoire” - 55.7% of the vote. He took office on February 7, 2017.

In January and March 2019, two investigative reports by the Haitian Court of Auditors came to light concerning the misappropriation of funds intended for roads, bridges and market halls that were never built. One of the recipients of the money, where the funds "seeped away", was Moïse's company Agritrans. In September 2019, a report was published in which Moïse, other members of the government and a group of private entrepreneurs were accused of corruption. In connection with the Venezuelan structural funding program Petrocaribe, millions of US dollars are said to have been embezzled. Haitians are still deeply dissatisfied with the prevailing poverty, rising prices and the failure of the authorities and the police. More than 40 people died in the course of the confrontations caused by the demonstrations. Serious allegations are made against the police as they are believed to be involved in many of the cases.

Death and consequences

On the night of July 7, 2021 at around 1 a.m., Jovenel Moïse was attacked and shot dead in his private home by hitherto unknown attackers. His wife was also hit by gunfire. She was hospitalized seriously injured and later transferred to Miami to a hospital in the United States. Interim police chief Léon Charles announced that 26 Colombians and two Americans of Haitian origin were involved in the murder. According to initial information, four murder suspects were shot and two others arrested, and a day later the police announced that three Colombians had been killed and eight were still on the run.

Colombia's defense minister, Diego Molano , said in a video address that the alleged persons responsible for the attack were, according to initial information, former members of the Colombian army .

Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Claude Joseph signed two decrees declaring 15 days of state of siege and state mourning each on July 7, 2021, whereby the state of siege allows the government, for example, to use the military for police tasks and to restrict civil rights. A few days before his death, as one of his last official acts, Moïse appointed Ariel Henry Prime Minister- designate of Haiti , who should have replaced Claude Joseph.

See also

Web links

Commons : Jovenel Moise  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JOMAR. In: pseau.org. Solidarité Eau program, accessed on 7 July 2021 .
  2. ^ Haïti - Agriculture: Creation de la première Zone Franche Agricole Haïtienne. In: HaitiLibre. August 10, 2013, accessed on January 12, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Gerard Maxineau: Jovenel Moïse séduit le Nord . In: Le Nouvelliste , September 16, 2015, accessed on February 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ Haiti's 'Banana Man,' president under siege, frozen by crisis. In: France24. February 14, 2019, accessed July 7, 2021 .
  5. ^ Results préliminaires de la présidentielle. Jovenel Moïse aux portes du palais national . In: Le Nouvelliste , November 28, 2016, accessed February 1, 2020.
  6. ↑ Klaus Ehringfeld: Uprising leached country. Haiti continues to move in the vicious circle of poverty and violence - the people and the opposition want to force a regime change . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 'December 30, 2019, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Haiti is experiencing a revolution - and the world is looking the other way. In: amerika21. October 31, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  8. ↑ UN confirms 42 dead in Haiti, Amnesty criticizes the police. In: america21. November 5, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Le président Jovenel Moïse assassiné chez lui par un commando armé Le Nouvelliste , 7 July 2021, accessed on 7 July 2021.
  10. ↑ Haiti's President killed in attack. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine . July 7, 2021, accessed July 7, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Haiti's President shot dead in: orf.at (July 7, 2021)
  12. ↑ AFP: Haiti: Woman treated by murdered president in USA. Retrieved July 8, 2021 .
  13. ↑ tagesschau.de: Deaths and arrests after the presidential murder in Haiti. Retrieved July 8, 2021 .
  14. ↑ a b c Haiti: At least 28 people involved in the murder of President Jovenel Moïse. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved July 9, 2021 .
  15. ↑ tagesschau.de: Deaths and arrests after the presidential murder in Haiti. Retrieved July 8, 2021 .
predecessor Office successor
Jocelerme Privert President of Haiti
February 7, 2017 - July 7, 2021 		vacant
personal data
SURNAME Moïse, Jovenel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Haitian agricultural entrepreneur and president
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Trou-du-Nord
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Port-au-Prince