Assassination in Haiti compounds leadership crisis 

Assailants wielding machine guns killed Haitian President Jovenel Moïse Tuesday night in his home. The next in the order of succession — the head of Haiti’s Supreme Court — died of COVID-19 last month. Widlore Mérancourt, the editor of the Haitian news outlet AyiboPost, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about Haiti’s uncertain future.

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