3 guilty of plot to kill president

TEGUCIGALPA: A court found a Mexican man and two Hondurans guilty of plotting to assassinate Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who has extradited more than a dozen drug lords since taking office, a judicial spokesman and security officials said on Sunday. The Mexican, Jesus Estrada, and the two Hondurans, Victor Flores and Jose Contreras, were convicted of planning to kill the Honduran leader in a September 2014 scheme, said supreme court spokesman Melvin Duarte. The plotters had hoped to kill Mr Hernandez in 2014 when he was due to land in a helicopter in his hometown of Gracias, security services revealed to reporters.