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Airan Berry, one of those arrested / Press office of the Ministry of Communication of Venezuela through AP
Venezuelan authorities made three more arrests yesterday as part of an investigation into a failed attempt to invade the country by sea during an operation involving agents, members of the Canadian opposition party of the Venezuelan right, led by Guido and Guido.
“Today we have arrested three other mercenaries … We are looking for them carefully and we will arrest all of them,” Nicolás Maduro said in a televised speech, bringing the total number of detainees to 34.
This failed attempt at an invasion of Venezuela, which the president of the country and not only compared to the Gulf of Pigs in Cuba in 1961, predicted the landing of the men on May 3 and 4 in Makuto, about an hour from Caracas.
Two former US military personnel, Luke Denman, 34, and Iran Berry, 41, have been arrested and charged with “terrorism, conspiracy, arms trafficking and gang formation” and face up to 30 years in prison. The rest of the detainees are Venezuelans.
The Venezuelan government claims that the two Americans, along with 11 other people, were arrested while trying to invade by sea on Monday from neighboring Colombia. In another attempt the day before, eight people were killed.
According to the government, the plan was to kidnap him to take power from Juan Guido, president of the National Assembly and self-proclaimed president of Venezuela.
Maduro insists that he considers Donald Trump “the leader of this operation” and an accomplice of Guido, a year after the coup parody that the latter attempted.
The United States government has denied any participation. “Obviously, General George Washington did not lead,” he said. “It was not a good attack.”
