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On Sunday, May 3, several people tried to enter the Venezuelan port city of La Guaira by boat.
The alleged objective behind the attack was to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro.
Eight people died in the attack. Authorities still managed to stop the attack and arrested more than 100 people, including two Americans.
Americans Arrested
Following what was a failed coup attempt, former U.S. Special Soldier Jordan Goudreau and former officer Javier Nieto Quintero of the Venezuelan National Guard were blamed.
Goudreau also identified the two arrested Americans as veterans Luke Denman and Aaron Berry. He claims he served with them for the American defense in Iraq and Afghanistan. Denman has even confirmed this in a video broadcast on state television.
According to Goudreau, the two veterans were part of “Operation Gideon,” which he said aimed at controlling President Nicolás Maduro.
On Friday, the two Americans were charged with terrorism. The charges also include conspiracy and smuggling of military weapons, according to NTB. They write that Attorney General Saab issued arrest warrants against Goudreau and two other residents of the United States on Friday.
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Claims Trump is involved
The Venezuelan government, led by President Maduro, has referred to the event as an attempted coup. The President claims that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mike Pompeo, were involved.
“It is impossible that Trump did not know what happened this weekend in Venezuela,” Maduro said, according to NTB.
In a recording broadcast on state television, which can be seen at the top of the case, one of the two detained Americans, Luke Denman, says that the plan for the operation was to take control of the Caracas airport and transport Maduro to the United States.
In the video, Denman says Goudreau was working on behalf of President Trump and that he and Berry were the two Americans involved in the attack.
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– Will use “all media”
Trump, on the other hand, denies that the United States had anything to do with that attack.
“We just found out about that,” the president said Tuesday this week.
He claimed that he did not know what was behind the attack in Venezuela.
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denies having anything to do with the attack and warned against using “all means” to free detained Americans.
“If the Maduro regime decides to keep them, we will use all available funds to recover them,” United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Problems arose
According to the Washington Post, the agreement to overthrow Maduro has been negotiated by members of the Venezuelan opposition in late 2019.
The newspaper writes that the agreement was signed in October last year and was confirmed to them by Latin American political consultant JJ Rendón, who would chair the secret committee.
According to the newspaper, the settlement was $ 213 million with a security company in Florida. The security cabinet is owned by former United States Special Forces soldier Jordan Goudreau, who will be the mastermind behind the attack, according to The Guardian.
According to the newspaper, Goudreau planned the operation in a Miami department in late 2019, but problems should have arisen.
No evidence
Following the signing of the contract, according to the Washington Post, Guaidó has been unable to provide proof that he had the $ 212.9 million he had promised in payment after the operation was completed.
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Guaidó is said to have claimed he had 800 men on the ground in Venezuela, but should not have been able to prove it.
This led to major disagreements between the parties in early November, according to the newspaper.
Rendón must have thought the operation was dead, before several people attacked the Venezuelan port city overnight.
A country in crisis
Venezuela is in a deep political and economic crisis. Almost 60 countries recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s legitimate leader, including the United States. However, the opposition leader does not have the support of Russia and China.
Guaidó has repeatedly tried to overthrow President Maduro. Furthermore, the United States, which calls Maduro a dictator, has imposed a series of sanctions on Venezuela.
In late March, the United States government sued Maduro for “drug terrorism” and offered $ 15 million to those who managed to detain the president, according to Reuters news agency.
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