PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Days before he was assassinated inside the second-floor bedroom of the home that served as his official residence, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was warned of threats to his life, several sources have confirmed to the Miami Herald, including one of the individuals who told him foreign mercenaries were in the country.
The warnings were among several hints of a plot developing against Moïse, a distrustful and unpopular leader who four weeks earlier, on June 10, 2021, wrote in a notebook about a tentative coup d’etat and the need to track down the full name of a certain pastor named “Sanon,” who was rumored to have presidential aspirations.
But Moïse, who had stopped going to his presidential offices on the grounds of the demolished National Palace in the weeks before his killing, supposedly due to fears of getting COVID-19, didn’t seem to take any obvious precautions. He didn’t inform his prime minister or police chief, both men told the Herald, and he didn’t call a special meeting of the government’s security apparatus.
