Mario Antonio Palacios
Three weeks after Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios arrived in Port-au-Prince last summer to assist in an operation to arrest Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, one of his co-conspirators flew to South Florida to ask for assistance with the plot.
The man had a written request for assistance furthering the plot to arrest Moïse on a bogus 2019 Haitian arrest warrant and then imprisoning him, according to an FBI criminal complaint unsealed this week in a Miami federal courtroom. The man told others that the individuals involved would get immunity in Haiti for helping.
Instead of being kidnapped, Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, in the bedroom of his private Port-au-Prince hillside residence after the plan changed, Palacios told Homeland Security Investigations and FBI agents after he was caught in Jamaica in October after months of hiding out in Haiti and deciding to cooperate in the joint U.S. investigation.
