Who Will Lead Haiti after President's Killing?
Voice of America
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Three days after the assassination of Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, questions are mounting about how the power vacuum left by his sudden death will be filled, in a violence-wracked country with no working parliament and no workable succession process.
The following is a look at what could happen next in the impoverished Caribbean nation, which was already mired in a deep political and security crisis when the slaying — its motive still unclear — took place early Wednesday. Three weakened branches of power With Haiti's executive branch shaken by the murder of the president, the two other branches -- the legislative and the judiciary -- face enormous pressures in a country crippled by a grave institutional crisis for more than a year.More Related News