Jovenel Moïse was the forty-third president of Haiti, serving from February 7, 2017 until his assassination on July 7, 2021.
A banana farmer and businessman from Nord-Ouest with no prior political career, he was installed through disputed elections as Michel Martelly's PHTK successor. His presidency oversaw a catastrophic expansion of gang power in Port-au-Prince, was conducted largely by executive decree after parliament dissolved in 2020, and ended when a team of Colombian mercenaries kille...
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 2004-02-29
2004 Coup Haiti
coup-haiti — the anti-Lavalas political order his presidency extended; the gang dynamics the coup period unleashed
- 2010
Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Haiti
earthquake-reconstruction-haiti — the reconstruction-era degradation of state institutions that created the conditions for his rise
- 2021-07-07
Assassination of Jovenel Moïse (2021)
assassination-2021