On Tuesday, President Trump denied any US involvement in a failed mercenary incursion into Venezuela, saying he’d “just heard about it” and that it “has nothing to do with our government.”
Venezuela’s President Maduro reported the incident Monday, saying 13 were arrested in the failed raid, including two Americans, identified as Airan Berry and Luke Denman. Maduro directly accused the Trump Administration, which is trying to impose regime change, of being behind the plot.
Former US Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, claims that he organized the plot. Goudreau reportedly helped train the insurgents, former Venezuelan soldiers who were living in Colombia.
In a video, Goudreau said that operation is not over, and that forces continue to fight with the goal of removing Maduro from power. He said units are active in south, west, and east of Venezuela.
Venezuela’s Interior Minister reported an ongoing, permanent state of alert in the face of further potential incursions. There have been no subsequent reports of any attacks.
The US has been trying to impose regime change in Venezuela since early 2019, pushing opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate ruler. Guaido denied any involvement in the Monday incursion, though Goudreau showed a services contract signed by Guaido related to the plot.
Goudreau founded a private security company called Silvercorp USA in 2018, and began focusing on Venezuela almost entirely in 2019. There is nothing directly linking Goudreau to the administration, but US officials have vowed to impose regime change either peacefully or by force, and this is certainly looking like a covert effort at a “by force” option.
If our President denies any US involvement in the attempted coup – then it is almost certain that the US was involved.
“just heard about it”
Try reading.
https://www.ksl.com/article/46747715/ex-green-beret-led-failed-attempt-to-oust-venezuelas-maduro
When Trump speaks one of three things comes out of his mouth. A lie. An insult or a long winded compliment of his favorite person, Donald Trump.
hope nicky “pockets” maduro isn’t one of your favorite persons. you will soon be minus one favorite person.
Nothing I said even insinuated I’m pro Maduro. Nice try troll,
if you are anti-trump you must be pro-maduro. a little contradictory otherwise since trump promoted guaido to replace him.
The logic of a troll. Go away troll.
that’s all you’ve got. troll references.
You’re an admitted troll, why not?
Because it makes you look like a wimp and it’s not against the rules to troll people and short of trolling some of you guys will never spend two seconds thinking about anything, you guys sit around virtue signaling and patting each other on the back all day making sure you try super hard to agree with each other. I welcome trolls because they actually provide people with the ability to prove their points. I do troll, and often I troll simply to give YOU and others a chance to prove their points, it’s called playing the devil’s advocate. I’m curious if you can actually defend your positions without having to run and cry to a moderator. You are practically screaming that you can’t debunk anyone and need them run off instead. Lame.
Your first garbage response didn’t cover this? And you are a pseudo intellectual who can kiss my a$$.
Nobody came running to me. wars posted a series of comments in which I pointed out to someone else that beavisnbutthead is a sarcasm troll and he or she admitted that was true, that’s all.
It’s not against the rules to be a troll here. Nor is it against the rules to feed the trolls, or ignore the trolls, or point out that the trolls are trolls.
i can tone it down. i like this site. my country does not like maduro and i support that. guaido may be a bum also, but do not understand what you see in maduro. you could do better.
I don’t “see” anything in Maduro. My criticism of Trump’s handling of Venezuela has nothing to do with Maduro. Just like my criticism of Trump doesn’t mean I support Biden.
Thomas L. Knapp Mod Tom Mauel • 5 days ago
Actually, he’s a sarcastic troll and you are feeding him
Thomas L. Knapp Mod Like Ike • 5 days ago
Sarcasm detection isn’t your strong suit, is it?
Thomas L. Knapp Mod Tom Mauel • 5 days ago
Actually, he’s a sarcastic troll and you are feeding him
bootin buddin Thomas L. Knapp • 4 days ago
he’s a little slow.
Why are you running to a moderator? Who cares if the guy is trolling, that’s not the moderators job to fix. Trolls are allowed to troll and if you don’t want the troll around stop feeding him. And if you insist on feeding him then do so by debunking him, running to a mod makes it look like you are afraid of confronting him with facts and need help to run him out of here. I don’t want ANYONE run out of here, the more the better, including trolls and everyone else you don’t agree with. Seriously, why would you ask for Thomas when the guy is just stating his opinion? Can’t you hack debating with someone or simply ignoring them till they go away? It’s not against the forum rules to troll and that’s if you consider him a troll, I’m not sure I do. He’s speaking his mind the same as everyone else gets to and you make us look like chicken $hit’s who can’t handle any opposition without crying for help. Either debate the guy and take him down with facts or ignore him, but don’t try and get him banned from here because you don’t like his opinion. How weak is that?
What the hell are you talking about? I’m not running to anyone and I didn’t ask Thomas to do anything. I was pointing out that the guy admitted he was a troll. I tried editing my comment but I f*cked up. I’m not even trying to run him out of here. The guy has replied to several of my comments and none of them have resembled anything that can be described as initiating a “debate”.
Always wondered what would happen if an agoraphobe had stay at home orders….. ;?)
guaido, guaido…oh ya, I remember, the guy spanky hired to wash dishes at Mar a lago. No work visa.
he will be the next president of venezuela. qualified and trained by the cia to replace the ex bus driver who will be dragged behind one through the streets of caracas amidst cheering locals.
Well, my crystal ball shows an idiot ex special forces clown getting dragged behind a bus before cheering crowds long before Maduro.
Trump is himself often anti Trump . He reneges easily and quickly . He debunks himself every other day .
But even if he didn’t do any of those, your argument doesn’t hold up to any rational thinking .
See being permanently anti Trump seems has not made CNN ,MSNBC or NYT or BBC or Joe Biden or Germany pro Chinese .
Put them up against a wall.
I guess this means that Silvercorp USA is an “essential” business.
I doubt that the administration had anything at all to do with the planning and since one of the leaders was arrested on Drug charges by the US, it’s highly unlikely they had any support.
BUT that doesn’t let the administration off the hook, it’s likely they are to blame because they put a bounty out on Maduro. Isn’t it most likely that someone wanted that bounty? Furthermore a guy could make a Ton of Money if they could stabilize Venezuela and then get in on the ground buying up properties and businesses. The group who brings capitalism back to Venezuela will be opening up a goldmine for investors who are willing to go in big and with enough power to keep control over whatever they invest in.
This is a new game being played right now, it’s not something we have seen before, so comparing this to past operations doesn’t really work all that well. This is Capitalism attempting to strike back using private contractors and other means at their disposal to make Venezuela safe for the capitalists themselves.
I think it’s actually a glimpse into the future of Capitalist covert warfare.
You have a valid point here. This doesn’t let the Trump Administration off the hook, even though they may not have supported this mercenary incursion. The fact that they put a bounty on Nicolas Maduro doesn’t let them off the hook.
Putting a bounty on a foreign leader (in this case, Maduro) is just another way of wanting the assassination of the target.
This is diversionary . The person is in jail and safe and can’t rat out much. USA can divert the entire discussion – oh that guy ! He is a drug peddlers . Nothing more to see , end of discussion. Your rational thinking has already been hijacked by the master of the discourse .
It knows that sane people would arrive at this conclusion.
On another point, drugs and coup have been intricately linked – this combined theme is the through -lines of all coups from 1940 within and outside Latin America . Even ISIS have possibly got introduced to this drug and definitely by USA in Afghanistan.
Apparently, Trump and his bailed millionaires, his neocon fascists and banksters had a lot to do with this. One of the captured US terrorists, Luke Denman, stated he was acting under the command of Donald Trump. Drag this POS behind a Toyota down the streets of Caracas and give him a purple heart for his efforts.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/venezuela-maduro-abduction-plot-luke-denman-americans-captured
The US spooks and secrecy have earned being at the top of the whodunit list.
Where’s our central America coup instigator John Kelly? He left his Chief of Staff post 1/2019, just as the Venezuela regime change hype was peaking. In late April 2019 guaido, the mar lago dishwasher, failed his coup attempt.
News sources today are reporting the meathead mercenary has been photographed providing security at trump rallies. Nothing definate.
The differences between this episode and 911 are few . Compared to Afghanistan , America ‘s gov is not weak but wealthy and powerful and in contrast to Afghanistan,it has expressed the despite to overthrow the Venezuelan gov and has tried to assassinate the leader and has sanctioned the country and has recognized the illegal aspirant as legitimate president .Afghanistan gov never supported said or tried any coup against USA.
Neither did Afghanistan say that it would try to secure the release of those snatched by USA after 911.
like the hijackers,these Americans traveled ,sat up till late night in hotel in third country and planned coup by multi-pronged maneuvers through riot fighting and ,mass disturbances .