US Charges Retired Colombian Soldier For "Plot To Kidnap Or Kill" Haiti President
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Prosecutors alleged in their complaint that "on July 7, 2021, Palacios and others entered the president's residence in Haiti with the intent and purpose of killing President Moise, and in fact the president was killed."
US authorities have charged a retired Colombian soldier over the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise last July, justice officials said Tuesday.
The Justice Department said in a statement that 43-year-old Mario Palacios, along with others, "participated in a plot to kidnap or kill the Haitian President."
Palacios was detained at a Panamanian airport late Monday and flown to Miami as part of a "voluntarity extradition" deal.
If convicted, Palacios faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. He was taken into custody and was scheduled to appear in a Miami court later Tuesday.
