The caretaker administration in charge of conducting official business in Haiti until its legal replacement by election, has taken the shocking decision of sending Haitian Police officers to be trained in Colombia, despite Port-au-Prince official accusation in 2021, of 26 Colombian nationals for their involvement in the recent assassination of late President Jovenel Moise.
23 officers from different police unit, left Haiti this November 12, 2025 for a 5 week-training session in Colombia, for what is being presented as part of a bilateral defence cooperation and will focus mainly on response tactics, investigation techniques and intelligence.
The officers left abroad the same colombian military airplane, which earlier that day landed in the Haitian capital with several tons of gestural aid, as the Caribbean country is still recovering from the destruction of hurricane Melissa.
On the night of July 6, 2021 to the early morning of the 7th, a group of heavily armed foreign mercenaries stormed the bedroom of president Moise’s private residence; tortured, then murdered him.
Haitian authorities tracked the suspects who went into hiding into the nearby diplomatic compound of Taiwan, where they eventually arrested 15 Colombians among them, before their subsequent parade in front of local media.
Colombian officials did confirmed that at least 13 of its accused nationals in the attack were retired members of the country’s military and Bogotá was willing to further cooperate with involved law enforcement.
Media investigations would later revealed that the former Colombian military members had received intensive U.S training and had been priorly contracted for counterinsurgency missions where they would carry out high-value-target operations.
The U.S Department of Defense additionally admitted that at least 7 of the identified individuals accused, participated in past U.S military trainings and unspecified education programs.
The vast majority of the accused in the assassination have been arrested in Haiti and are awaiting trial there.
The U.S Department of Justice has charged at least one Colombian national in connection with the assassination.
While the Colombian government has admitted to having many of its nationals involved in the horrid murder, and has somewhat cooperated with the investigation by sharing few information, Colombia has never officially pursue separate charges against its accused citizens.
As the investigation continues in Haiti and in the U.S, It remains unclear to international observers if the Haitian state will ultimately seek the death penalty against the accused detainees; a country’s most severe and appropriate punishement for Its President’s murder by foreign mercenaries.
