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Colombian retired army officer Germán Alejandro Rivera García gets life in prison for killing of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/27/jovenel-moise-haiti-president-assassination
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A retired Colombian army officer has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.
Germán Alejandro Rivera García, 45, is the second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced in what US prosecutors have described as a conspiracy hatched in both Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to kidnap or kill Moïse, who was slain at his private home near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 7 July 2021.
Rivera, also known as Colonel Mike, had pleaded guilty in September to conspiring and supporting a plot to kill the Haitian president.
Rivera had faced up to life imprisonment and hoped to receive a lighter sentence after signing a cooperation agreement with US authorities.
The case received a boost last week when police arrested Joseph Félix Badio, a key suspect who once worked at Haiti’s ministry of justice and at the government’s anti-corruption unit.
Since the assassination, Haiti has experienced a surge of gang violence that led the prime minister to request the deployment of an international armed force.
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