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Fearing certain death in Haiti, a suspected assassin gambled on cooperating with the FBI
BY ANTONIO MARIA DELGADO, MICHAEL WILNER, AND JACQUELINE CHARLES
UPDATED JANUARY 05, 2022 8:12 PM
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With a bounty on his head and Haiti’s dysfunctional legal system and dangerously decrepit prison system on his mind, an ex-Colombian soldier wanted in a wide-reaching assassination probe took a gamble.
After three months on the run, Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios fled Haiti by boat for Jamaica, from which he hoped he could be smuggled back to his native Colombia. Once back home, though, he planned to get in touch with the American Embassy to “bring clarity” to his role in the July 7 slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Mose, according to his lawyers.
Instead of contacting U.S. authorities from afar, he ended up in the United States, charged in federal court.
This report on Palacios’ state of mind is based on an interview with three of Palacios’ Colombia-based lawyers and his wife. The interview was conducted Wednesday by journalists for the Miami Herald, el Nuevo Herald and the McClatchy Washington Bureau.
Read more at: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article257076042.html#storylink=cpy
Read more at: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article257076042.html#storylink=cpy