A European Union diplomat sent an email to a group of Haitian civil society leaders last February, backing a Haitian-led opposition group in the aftermath of the former president’s assassination in 2021. It was supposed to be a private exchange; the EU was walking a delicate path, promoting democracy while pledging to stay out of Haiti’s affairs.
But there was another party eavesdropping: the U.S. government.
The Europeans were pledging $3.2 million in EU funding to support the Haitian national police, according to a summary of the correspondence that surfaced in documents leaked last year by Jack Teixeira, a U.S. air national guardsman.