Haiti, 2021 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 7 February 2021, corresponding to the alleged coup and assassination plot against President Jovenel Moise of Haiti. On 7 February 2021, the day the opposition claimed Moise's term had ended, the government announced the arrest of 23 people for allegedly plotting to topple the administration and assassinate the president. Among those detained were a judge of the Court of Cassation, Yvickel Dabresil, and a high-ranking police inspector general.
Moise said the plot had been in the works since at least late November 2020 and that its goal was to make an attempt on his life, while the justice minister called it an attempted coup d'etat. The affair unfolded amid a bitter standoff: the opposition insisted Moise's five-year term ended on 7 February 2021, while Moise, backed by the United States and the Organization of American States, maintained it ran until February 2022, and he had been ruling by decree since January 2020. The opposition denounced the arrests as a pretext to round up prominent critics who held immunity, and named its own proposed interim president.
The 7 February 2021 coding matches the announcement and arrests.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
04102072021
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Moise said he foiled the plot; he was assassinated in a separate attack in July 2021.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Al Jazeera
BBC
Washington Post
Wikipedia
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