Colombian officials said yesterday that a former Haitian intelligence official was the man who ordered two former Colombian soldiers to kill Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse.
Joseph Felix Badio, the Haitian ex-intelligence official, is a new character to be added to the mix. He told two of the Colombian mercenaries that they would be arresting the Haitian President. This is all according to Colombia's head of the national police.
But that initial plan changed a few days before day-zero. Badio told the two mercenary leaders, Duberney Capador and Germán Alejandro Rivera Garcia, that they were to assassinate Moise.
The Washington Post is reporting of a May 12 meeting in Fort Lauderdale, where attendees discussed a "new Haiti" led by the pastor and physician Christian Emmanuel Sanon. It seems like the information comes from Parnell Duverger, a 70-year-old retired professor who attended the meeting. He also drafted the redevelopment plan Sanon pitched.
Also there were Walter Veintemilla, a Florida financier who invests in infrastructure projects, and Antonio “Tony” Intriago of CTU Security.
One of Veintemilla's companies, Worldwide Investment Development Group, worked with CTU Security to recruit the Colombian mercenaries. The Post obtained a document that showed that Worldwide Investment Development Group essentially bankrolled the thing to the tune of $860,000 to Sanon for ammunition, equipment, transportation and accommodations for personnel.
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This brings back memories of a failed coup in Venezuela last year, dubbed, "Operation Gideon."It had been planned by Miami exiles and mercenaries run by a former Green Beret, Jordan Goudreau. That plot left eight people dead and 100 arrested.