Overview

• Petro met with Prime Minister Alix Dider Fils-Aimé and the Transitional Presidential Council to review security, commerce, education, agriculture and counter-narcotics projects.
• He pledged to train Haitian officers and deepen arms cooperation after Haitian delegations toured Colombian state-owned defense facilities.
• Haitian judges continue to interrogate 17 former Colombian soldiers accused in President Jovenel Moïse’s 2021 assassination.
• Gangs control roughly 90 percent of Port-au-Prince while Haiti’s underfunded National Police operates alongside a UN-mandated Kenyan contingent.
• Nearly 4,900 people have been killed and over 1.3 million displaced since October 2023, intensifying calls for elections by February 2026.