Former DEA informant pleads guilty in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

Haiti’s former president Jovenel Moise (Dieu Nalio Chery/AP)

A former confidential informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

Joseph Vincent, a dual Haitian-American citizen who lived in the US and attended meetings in South Florida and Haiti ahead of the assassination, is the fourth of 11 defendants in Miami to plead guilty.