<span style="color: #222222;">A former Colombian military officer has been charged in the U.S. in connection with the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse last July.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The U.S. justice department said, Mario Antonio Palacios is accused of having participated in a plot to kidnap or kill the Haitian president. Palacios appeared at a Miami court on Tuesday to hear the charges against him.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Jovenel Moïse was shot dead on 7 July by gunmen who stormed his residence in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. While several arrests have been made in Haiti in connection with the killing, Palacios is the first suspect to face charges.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' In a statement on Tuesday, the U.S. justice department said a complaint was filed in the state of Florida accusing Palacios, along with a group of about 20 other Colombian nationals and dual Haitian-American citizens, of conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the U.S. Palacios was recently arrested during a stopover in Panama after being deported to Colombia from Jamaica. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He agreed to travel to the U.S., which had issued an Interpol red notice requesting his arrest. He is now in U.S. custody and, if convicted of the charges, he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. </span>