THE MUDJJ DOSSIER: WHO IS STANLEY LUCAS?

For five years, the Haitian people have waited for justice for President Jovenel Moïse. We have followed the trial in Miami. We have documented the evidence. We have demanded accountability.

 

But there is a name that keeps appearing—not in the courtroom, but in the media. A man who presents himself as a champion of justice for Jovenel Moïse. His name is Stanley Lucas.

 

This dossier does not accuse Stanley Lucas of any crime. It presents documented facts about his history—facts that are public, sourced, and verifiable. And it asks a question: Can a man with this history be trusted to define what justice means for Haiti?

 

I. The 2004 Coup: Training the Opposition

 

In the early 2000s, Stanley Lucas was the senior program officer for Haiti at the International Republican Institute (IRI), a U.S. government-funded organization.

 

According to a 2004 investigation by Salon magazine, Lucas ran IRI's $3 million party-building program in Haiti—a program that trained and united President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's political opponents into a single bloc.

 

Mother Jones magazine reported that IRI organized political training sessions in the Dominican Republic and Miami for some 600 Haitian leaders—exclusively opponents of Aristide. These trainings were run by Stanley Lucas.

 

II. The Radio Statement: Suggesting Assassination

On February 8, 2001, Stanley Lucas appeared on the Haitian radio station Radio Tropicale. According to reporting by Salon magazine, Lucas asked his audience: "You did see what happened to Kabila?" — referring to Laurent Kabila, the Congolese president who had been assassinated the month before. The remark was widely interpreted as a suggestion that Aristide could face the same fate. IRI dismissed the remark as "a comparative analysis of countries that embrace democracy and those that do not."

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III. The Guy Philippe Connection: A "Good Friend"

Guy Philippe was a leader of the 2004 armed rebellion against President Aristide. Reporting by CovertAction Magazine and other outlets describes a long-standing relationship between Lucas and Philippe. According to the Monterey Herald, Philippe called Lucas "a good friend" whom he had known for most of his life. Philippe also said Lucas served as his table tennis coach in their youth. The exact nature and extent of their relationship has been described differently across sources.

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IV. The 120-Day Ban from USAID

 

According to Mother Jones, a USAID inspector general investigation found that Stanley Lucas was spreading "unsubstantiated rumors" about the U.S. ambassador to Haiti. As a result, USAID barred him from running the IRI program.

 

V. The Family History: The 1987 Jean-Rabel Massacre

 

Stanley Lucas is the scion of a pro-Duvalier landowning family from Jean-Rabel. In 1987, his cousins organized a machete-wielding mob that attacked peasants protesting for land redistribution outside their ranch. The number of victims is disputed, with figures ranging from 139 to 250 depending on the source. Amnesty International and Via Campesina have both documented the massacre.

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VI. The Advisor to President Moïse

 

Despite this documented history, Stanley Lucas was appointed Foreign Policy Advisor by President Jovenel Moïse in March 2017. He served as a close advisor to the President—the same President whose assassination he now claims to be investigating.

 

VII. The Unanswered Questions

 

We are not accusing. We are asking:

 

1. Why was a man who ran IRI's $3 million program to destabilize one Haitian president appointed as a foreign policy advisor to another?

2. Why was a man who suggested assassination as a strategy placed in a position of trust by another Haitian president?

3. Why was a man who met with Guy Philippe three months before the 2004 coup given access to the highest levels of the Moïse government?

4. Why does he now accuse others of involvement in the assassination while his own documented history places him in the company of those who have overthrown Haitian governments before?

 

Conclusion

 

MUDJJ does not bring accusations. We bring facts. We bring references. We bring questions that the international community has avoided for too long.

 

Until then, we will continue to ask. And we will continue to demand a clean, Haitian-led transition—free from the corrupt network and its foreign enablers.

 

Haiti will not be erased

 

References:

 

1. Max Blumenthal, "The Other Regime Change," Salon, July 16, 2004.

2. Joshua Kurlantzick, "The Coup Connection," Mother Jones, November 2004.

3. "Democracy Promotion Unmasked," CovertAction Magazine, March 24, 2025.

4. "Haiti - FLASH: Jovenel Moïse makes 23 appointments," HaitiLibre, March 27, 2017.

5. Amnesty International, report on the 1987 Jean-Rabel massacre.

6. Via Campesina, documentation of the 1987 Jean-Rabel massacre and its commemorations.