A maritime tracking company said the move was likely performative, given the Chinese-owned ship has an "established history within the Iranian trade ecosystem."
Experts have been quick to reassure the public after the deaths aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, but images and turns of phrase have rekindled anxieties from Covid's early days.
The New York Times has not authenticated the note. But some of its phrases are similar or identical to ones Jeffrey Epstein used in emails and another handwritten letter.
President Jovenel Moïse, 53, was gunned down in his bedroom in July 2021. His killing unleashed a yearslong spiral of gang violence and mayhem in Haiti.