trade embargo using cryptocurrency and sought to run for U.S. That year, he left the United States to avoid trial, largely living on a megayacht with his wife, four large dogs, two security guards and seven staff. income taxes for eight years for ideological reasons. McAfee said in 2019 that he had not paid U.S. The program still carries his name and has 500 million users worldwide.
He sold his software company to Intel in 2011 and no longer had any involvement in the business. McAfee worked for NASA, Xerox and Lockheed Martin before launching the world's first commercial anti-virus in 1987. He was indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion charges and was charged in a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York. authorities, some of that time aboard a megayacht. McAfee had lived for years on the run from U.S. technology entrepreneur John McAfee died June 23 by suicide at age 75 in a Barcelona prison after the Spanish high court authorized his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, drew international condemnation, with human rights activists and others saying prisoners were tortured.īritish-born U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq and foreign terrorism suspects at a special prison set up under Rumsfeld at the U.S.
He personally authorized harsh interrogation techniques for detainees. personnel abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. In 2004, Bush twice refused to accept Rumsfeld's offer to resign after photos surfaced of U.S.
He warned of the dangers of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction but no such weapons were ever discovered. Rumsfeld played a leading role ahead of the war in making the case to the world for the March 2003 invasion. troops remained in Iraq until 2011, long after he left his post. forces swiftly toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but failed to maintain law and order in the aftermath, and Iraq descended into chaos with a bloody insurgency and violence between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Bush replaced him as the United States found itself bogged down after 3-1/2 years of fighting, died June 29 at age 88. defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war until President George W. Moise had ruled by decree for more than a year after the country failed to hold legislative elections, and he sought to push through a controversial constitutional reform that he said would finally fix the problems causing Haiti's instability.ĭonald Rumsfeld, a forceful U.S.
This year, opposition leaders accused him of seeking to install a dictatorship by overstaying his mandate and becoming more authoritarian. After taking office as president in 2017, Moise, a banana exporter-turned-politician, faced fierce protests over corruption allegations and his management of the economy.
Haiti, a country of about 11 million people and the poorest in the western hemisphere, has struggled to achieve stability since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, and has grappled with a series of coups and foreign interventions. Haitian President Jovenel Moise, 53, was shot dead by gunmen in his private residence overnight on July 7, sparking an international outcry amid fears of a descent into chaos in the impoverished Caribbean nation.