Ex-Haitian official, 17 others appear in U.S. court in 2021 plot to kill Haitian president

Joseph Félix Badio, a former Haiti Ministry of Justice employee, was brought into Miami federal court in a wheelchair a day after he and 17 others — described as Colombian mercenaries — were flown from Haiti to the United States. They are among 30 people charged in the expanded indictment. Reuters' explainer describes the same expansion: an alleged mastermind, 17 former Colombian soldiers, and a gang leader, with pandemic-era loans allegedly used to fund the plot.