Local media reported that Jamaica will deport former Colombian army officer Mario Antonio Palacios, an alleged suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, to Colombia.

During a New Year's Eve court sitting, High Court Judge Justice Courtney Daye ordered as quoted by The Gleaner newspaper that “the applicant should depart by Monday, January 3." 

According to the newspaper, Haiti has twice requested Palacios' extradition to face trial in Haiti, but Jamaican prosecutors have denied both requests.

What is being concealed?

Such a step raises fresh questions about Colombia’s intention which might be tied to the US', most notably as the Pentagon has lately admitted that some of the former Colombian servicemen arrested after the assassination of Haiti’s president previously received US military training.

The shocking revelation that some of the assassination suspects received US training is certain to shape the plot, and questions Jamaica’s plan to extradite Moise's murder suspect to Colombia instead of Haiti.

The assassination

It is reported that Moise was shot dead, last July, at his home in Port-au-Prince, by what the Haitian authorities described as "a unit of killers", consisting of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans.

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Haiti interim PM Claude Joseph announced the assassination of the President of Haiti Jovenel Moise in his private residence on the 7th of July, 2021.