OT Venezuelan army foils 'amateur' coup attempt led by Green Beret with his two Special Forces buddies

Dramatic moment Venezuelan army foils 'amateur' coup attempt led by Green Beret with his two Special Forces buddies - and 'backed by shadowy US billionaires' - as they set out to assassinate President Maduro with '300 hungry, untrained men'

• New footage shows the shocking moment two U.S. former special forces soldiers were arrested in Venezuela Monday after their 'plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro' was foiled
• Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, were identified by Maduro in a press conference as he showed their passports and other forms of identification
• Maduro has accused the Trump administration and Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó, who have denied involvement
• The U.S. has led a campaign to oust Maduro, indicting the socialist leader as a narco-trafficker and offering a $15 million reward for his arrest in March
• 'But it has nothing to do with our government,' Trump said Tuesday of the failed plot
• Ex-Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, 43, has claimed responsibility and said its aim was to capture Maduro
• Goudreau was planning a coup by training 300 soldiers in Colombia, reports say
• He is a former associate of Keith Schiller, Donald Trump's bodyguard
• Schiller accompanied Goudreau to a meeting last May to discuss security with representatives of Guaidó
• A shadowy group of US billionaires led by Roen Kraft promised support for the 'private coup' and also met with Schiller and Goudreau
• Kraft allegedly lured prospective donors with the promise of preferential access to negotiate deals in the energy and mining sectors with an eventual Guaidó government
• Guaidó has said he has 'no relationship nor responsibility for any actions' taken by Goudreau, and that Maduro is using the incident as a distraction

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...attempt-kill-Venezuelas-President-Maduro.html

 

Planning for the incursion began after an April 30, 2019, barracks revolt by a cadre of soldiers who swore loyalty to Madura's would-be replacement, Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader recognized by the U.S. and some 60 other nations as Venezuela´s rightful leader.

Contrary to U.S. expectations at the time, key Maduro aides never joined with the opposition and the government quickly quashed the uprising.

A few weeks later, some soldiers and politicians involved in the failed rebellion retreated to the JW Marriott in Bogota, Colombia.

The hotel was a center of intrigue among Venezuelan exiles. For this occasion, conference rooms were reserved for what one participant described as the 'Star Wars summit of anti-Maduro goofballs' - military deserters accused of drug trafficking, shady financiers and former Maduro officials seeking redemption.

Among those angling in the open lobby was Goudreau, an American citizen who had served as a medic in U.S. Army special forces, according to five people who met with the former soldier.

Goudreau's focus on Venezuela had started just weeks before at Branson's concert.

'Controlling chaos on the Venezuela border where a dictator looks on with apprehension,' he wrote in a photo of himself on the concert stage posted to his Instagram account.

At 'Live Aid for Venezuala’, Goudreau had been introduced to Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump´s longtime bodyguard, through someone who worked in private security.

Schiller attended a March 2019 event at the University Club in Washington for potential donors with activist Lester Toledo, then Guaidó´s coordinator for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Last May, Goudreau accompanied Schiller to a meeting in Miami with representatives of Guaidó.

There was a lively discussion with Schiller about the need to beef up security for Guaidó and his growing team of advisers inside Venezuela and across the world, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

 

In 2018, he (Guaido) set up Silvercorp USA, a private security firm, near his home on Florida’s Space Coast to embed counter-terror agents in schools disguised as teachers.

 

Silvercorp’s website touts operations in more than 50 countries, with an advisory team made up of former diplomats, experienced military strategists and heads of multinational corporations -- none of them named. It claims to have “led international security teams” for the president of the United States.

 

NO CHANCE TO SUCCEED

Many saw the plan as foolhardy and there appears to have been no serious attempt to seek U.S. military support.

“There was no chance they were going to succeed without direct U.S. military intervention,” said Mattos, the former Navy SEAL who spent two weeks in September training the volunteers in basic tactical medicine on behalf of his non-profit, which works in combat zones.

Mattos visited the camps after hearing about them from a friend working in Colombia. He said he never met Goudreau.

Mattos said he was surprised by the barren conditions. There was no running water and men were sleeping on the floors, skipping meals and training with sawed-off broomsticks in place of assault rifles. Five Belgian shepherds trained to sniff out explosives were as poorly fed as their handlers and had to be given away.

Mattos said he grew wary as the men recalled how Goudreau had boasted to them of having protected Trump and told them he was readying a shipment of weapons and arranging aerial support for an eventual assault of Maduro’s compound.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...led-failed-attempt-to-oust-venezuelas-maduro/

 

You know if it succeeded, Trump would have taken credit for what he would call a "perfect coup"

 

"Trump denies all knowledge."

'He once shot a cup of coffee for me."

 

Get me some of that Kraft cheese money and I will stage a coup to make your presidency dreams come true.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ela-coup-bragged-toppling-foreign-leader.html

 

It's kind of comforting to know that Trump is no more competent at overthrowing foreign governments than he is at anything else.

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US Special Forces hostage Luke Denman, 34, is paraded on Venezuelan TV, admits to plot to capture Maduro and holds up coup contract, as Pompeo denies US involvement and says if he'd been 'directly' involved it would have 'gone differently'

• Luke Denman, 34, was paraded on Venezuelan state TV on Wednesday

A former U.S. special force soldier arrested in Venezuela was paraded on Venezuelan TV Wednesday as he 'admitted to a plot to capture President Nicolas Maduro'.

Luke Denman, 34, was arrested Monday alongside six Venezuelan mercenaries as part of the foiled coup that he said was commanded by President Donald Trump through an ex-Green Beret named Jordan Goudreau.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8293817/US-hostage-paraded-Venezuelan-TV.html