I thought it was a pretty insightful question.
In American news sources I have seen, Jovenel has been portrayed as a corrupt dictator. The clear implication is that he brought this upon himself. I even saw one article that compared him to Trump in a very negative way. It was almost as if the writer was wistful that the same hadn't happened to our former president.
Outside journalists, unfamiliar with Haitian politics or Haitian culture, make a few phone calls and then sit at their keyboards to create a neat and tidy narrative. They know nothing.
It's a very real possibility that President Jovenel died because he was a good guy who made some very bad people very angry.
It would be wise to apply the same rule to news from Haiti as to domestic news: Don't believe everything you read.
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