Retired Sgt. Edwin Blanquicet Rodr铆guez had spent 20 years in the Colombian military when he received an offer: Travel to Haiti as part of a security team to protect a politician and guard electrical infrastructure projects.
Blanquicet, looking for a way to support his family, took the job.
Weeks after arriving in Port-au-Prince in June of last year, however, he found himself fighting for his life. He and a team of other Colombian former soldiers got an order to leave their client 鈥� an evangelical preacher who wanted to be president 鈥� and head to a house in the hills of Port-au-Prince. The ordeal ended in the assassination of the country鈥檚 president, and hours later Blanquicet found himself pleading his innocence before an angry mob.
鈥淚 begged for my life,鈥� Blanquicet recalled in an interview on Colombian radio station La FM, breaking his silence on the slaying with fresh details that raise more questions in the slow-moving investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Mo茂se.
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