U.S. Court Convicts Four Men in Plot to Kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse

Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 53, a former FBI informant, Colombian national and U.S. permanent resident; Antonio Intriago, 62, a Venezuelan-American who owns a security company; James Solages, 40, a Haitian-American handyman; and Walter Veintemilla, 57, an Ecuadorian-American, were found guilty on Friday of conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 by recruiting mercenaries tasked with killing him at his home in Port-au-Prince, according to CBS News and other U.S. media outlets.

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