It was the arrival in Miami of Martine Moise, the widow of the assassinated president in Haiti who had been left for dead

The First Lady of Haiti, Martine Moise, arrived on Wednesday in an ambulance plane at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, north of Miami, to be treated for the serious injuries sustained in the attack in which President Jovenel Moise was shot.

The Haitian Ambassador to Washington, Bocchit Edmond, indicated that Martine Moise is “stable, but in critical condition“; and explained that all possible” efforts “have been made in Haiti to transfer her to Miami.” Thank goodness she is not dying, “he said.

According to local South Florida media videos, the Trinty Air Ambulance plane that brought the first lady landed around 3:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. GMT) at an executive airport in Fort Lauderdale.

Initially it was reported that he would be receiving treatment at the Baptist Hospital in South Florida, but his admission to the trauma center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the world, was eventually confirmed. .

The president’s daughter, Jomarlie, was at home during the attack but hid in an alcove, Magistrate Carl Henry Destin told the newspaper. The Nouvelliste.

The US State Department has called for the process to continue with the legislative and presidential elections scheduled for September 26, 2021, with a run-off on November 21.

Prior to Martine Moise’s arrival, members of Congress from Florida and leaders of the Haitian community expressed concern that the situation in Haiti would deteriorate further in the poorest country on the continent.

The congresswoman Frederica Wilson, representative of the distrito donde focused on the number comunidad haitiana en el sur de Florida, instó al primer ministro en funciones de Haití, Claude Joseph, a pedir al presidente of EEUU, Joe Biden, who brinde “seguridad adicional” has his country.

Wilson, from the Democratic Party and having close ties to Haiti as a representative in Congress of the district where Little Haiti is located, urged the Haitian people to “remain calm during this international crisis and unite to save their nation”, wrote the congressman. on Twitter.

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio said that “the cold-blooded assassination of President Moise will only bring more hardship to the Haitian people and further destabilize the economy.”

Haiti’s Consulate General in Miami, which serves a community that reaches some 400,000 people across Florida, was closed, according to Efe, and the only signs of the assassination were the flag at half mast and a bouquet of flowers that someone left at the gate.

Some residents of Little Haiti have expressed to local media their fear that violence will erupt in America’s oldest republic and at the same time the least developed country on the continent. “Violence calls for violence and is not a solution to the crisis in the country,” said Father Reginald Jean-Mary, parish priest of Notre Dame d’Haïti.

Haiti has suffered a strong political crisis since mid-2018 and experienced its most serious moment to date on February 7, when Moise denounced that the opposition, with the support of some judges, was preparing a coup.

(With information from EFE)

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