Colombian ex-army officer gets life in prison for killing of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse

Retired army officer German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, 45, is second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami

A retired Colombian army officer has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

German Alejandro Rivera Garcia, 45, is the second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced in what US prosecutors have described as a conspiracy hatched in both Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to kidnap or kill Moise, who was slain at his private home near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 7 July 2021.