1、时文阅读 海地总统遇刺身亡 Haiti President Mose assassinated at 海地临时总理克劳德约瑟夫 （Claude Joseph） 周三在一份声明中说， 海地总统莫伊兹 （Jovenel Mose）在一群身份不明人员袭击其私人住所后遭刺杀身亡。 约瑟夫还说，总统夫人也受伤，目前正在住院治疗。 约瑟夫谴责了他所称的“可恶、不人道和野蛮的行为”。他说，海地国家警察和其他部门已经控制 了这个国家的局势。 Haiti President Mose assassinated at home, wife hospitalized Haitian President Jovene
2、l Mose was assassinated(行刺;暗杀)in an attack on his private residence, according to a statement Wednesday from the countrys interim(临时的)prime minister, who called the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.” First Lady Martine Mose was shot in the overnight attack and hospitalized, interim Prem
3、ier Claude Joseph said. Haiti was already in a precarious political situation before the assassination, having grown increasingly unstable and disgruntled under Mose. The president ruled by decree( 专 制 ) for more than two years after the country failed to hold elections and the opposition demanded h
4、e step down in recent months. “The countrys security situation is under the control of the National Police of Haiti and the Armed Forces of Haiti,” Joseph said in a statement from his office. “Democracy and the republic will win.” In the early morning hours of Wednesday, the streets were largely emp
5、ty in the Caribbean nations capital of Port-au-Prince, but some people ransacked(搜寻；洗劫) businesses in one area. Joseph said police have been deployed to the National Palace and the upscale community of Ptionville and will be sent to other areas. Joseph condemned the assassination as a “hateful, inhu
6、mane and barbaric act.” He said some of the attackers spoke in Spanish but offered no further explanation. Haitis economic, political and social woes(问题；困难) have deepened recently, with gang violence spiking heavily in Port-au-Prince, inflation spiraling and food and fuel becoming scarcer at times i
7、n a country where 60% of the population makes less than $2 a day. These troubles come as Haiti still tries to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016. Opposition leaders accused Mose, who was 53, of seeking to increase his power, including by approving
8、a decree that limited the powers of a court that audits government contracts and another that created an intelligence agency that answers only to the president. In recent months, opposition leaders demanded the he step down, arguing that his term legally ended in February 2021. Mose and supporters maintained that his term began when he took office in early 2017, following a chaotic election that forced the appointment of a provisional(临时的) president to serve during a year-long gap. Haiti was scheduled to hold general elections later this year.
