‘Together, We Can Become a Force’: Haitians Seek Change After Assassination
The New York Times
Civic leaders hope that in the midst of the turmoil, the country can find a way to reimagine itself for a better future.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Teachers and religious leaders, lawyers and farmers, they are veterans of crisis who thought they had seen it all in recent years, looking on in outrage as the democracy they were fighting for was whittled away, gutted under the watch of President Jovenel Moïse. Then the gunmen struck, and a country that had been adrift now felt rudderless. Mr. Moïse is dead, assassinated in his own bedroom, and the few leaders left in the country have been so busy jostling to take his place that they have not even settled on a plan for burying him. It took a week just to announce that they had formed a committee to organize the ceremony.More Related News