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Haiti’s first lady says slain President was “betrayed”

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Haiti's first lady, Martine Moise, called Friday for justice for the country's assassinated president, Jovenel Moise, who, she assured, "was abandoned and betrayed."

"You were abandoned and betrayed. Your assassination exposed (the) ugliness and cowardice," Martine said at the civil ceremony in honor of Moise held in Cap-Haitien, in the north of the impoverished Caribbean country, where he will be buried this Friday.

The woman said that Moise's "greatest sin" was "to love his country. Defending the weakest against the greed of others."

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