(Commentary co-written by Laurent DuBois, co-director of UVA’s Democracy Initiative and author of “Haiti: The Aftershocks of History”) The assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday was the first slaying of a Haitian leader in more than a century. But the scripts that dominate interpretations of Haitian politics, with its cycles of political upheaval abetted by foreign actors, can seem relatively unchanged over time. Often lost in this narrative are the root causes of the alienation of the Haitian people from their government.