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Many loopholes and amateur actions made plans to oust the Venezuelan president from the former United States Special Force Task Force that was stopped before it began.
It was too complicated a plan to get rich quickly. Invading an unknown country, kidnapping the incumbent president to receive a $ 15 million reward from the US government. And then receiving money many times larger than those who have just come to power in Venezuela.
The plan to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and take him to Florida, USA. To judge drug trafficking, he seems very closed in the eyes of former special agent Jordan Goudreau as he made his way through a meeting in a luxury apartment in the city of Miami in late 2019. This 43-year-old former sergeant is I’m sure his experience in fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan will help him run the campaign smoothly.
The mercenary group was captured by Venezuela on 4/5. Photos: Guardian.
It also seemed very convincing to representatives of the Venezuelan opposition during the meeting. Just a few months after the failed military coup to topple Maduro, opposition leader Juan Guaido’s allies signed a lucrative $ 212.9 million contract with Silvercorp USA, Goudreau’s private security company, to remove him. President of Venezuela.
However, Venezuelan opposition representatives said they became increasingly suspicious of Goudreau’s capabilities and cut off contact with him a few months before the landing campaign began on 4/5.
The failure of Goudreau’s plan was exposed when two former US special forces, Airan Berry and Luke Denman, were captured living with mercenaries off the Venezuelan coast. They were arrested just before they could set foot on Venezuelan territory. The invasion failed with 8 gunmen killed, more than 100 others captured.
The two former US special agents. USA They later appeared on Venezuelan national television, admitting to the plot to overthrow the government and fully disclose plans to kidnap President Maduro to return to the United States.
Goudreau on May 3 boasted of “a bold landing at sea”, before the operation began. It was called “Operation Gideon”, based on the biblical story of a small army that defeated numerous enemies on numerous occasions. “Our units have been activated in the south, west and east of Venezuela,” Goudreau said as he stood next to Javier Nieto Quintero, a former captain of the Venezuelan national guard.
At this point, Goudreau’s plan has begun to “die in the bud”, especially when all details of the action were announced by the AP news agency two days earlier. That means that the Maduro administration knows the Gideon campaign very well.
Goudreau served in the Canadian Army in the 1990s and attended the University of Calgary before joining the United States Green Beret task force. He spent 15 years in this army as a military soldier, up to the rank of sergeant, and repeatedly fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After his demobilization, Goudreau founded Silvercorp USA in 2018 with the goal of providing security services in American schools, avoiding the risk of mass shooting. The Silvercorp USA website makes a series of exaggerated statements when Goudreau once ordered “the international security units of the President of the United States,” although the former task force only defends the security of a political campaign. President Donald Trump.
In early 2019, Goudreau provided security services for a concert in support of Venezuelan refugees on the Colombian border. He met with Cliver Alcalá, the former Venezuelan general appealed to support the opposition at the time. The two began to discuss plans to overthrow Maduro.
By September 2019, Goudreau had a detailed plan and met Juan José Rendón, an exiled Venezuelan who was commissioned by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to build a strategy for power.
Goudreau (left) and Nieto appeared before Gideon’s campaign began. Photos: Guardian.
Rendón is known in Latin American politics, having served in the re-election campaign of former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and resigned after accusations of accepting bribes from drug lords. Rendon was also suspected of interfering in the Mexican elections in 2012.
Guaidó appears to have established an advisory committee to find a way to overthrow Maduro, in which Rendón takes responsibility for implementing the plan. The commission has sought all legal means to eliminate the President of Venezuela and access to many private security companies that always demand “heavenly” remuneration.
“Their greed has no bottom. They demand from $ 1 billion to $ 1.5 billion. Meanwhile, the Goudreau company is only asking to pay $ 213 million of future Venezuelan oil revenues, including deposits. $ 1.5 million. He claims 800 people are ready to make landfall in Venezuela, “said Rendon.
A series of meetings between Silvercorp USA and the Venezuelan opposition ended with an agreement in October 2019. “The total estimated cost for the project will be US $ 212.9 million and the implementation period will be 495 days. The supplier’s specialists Services will assist the partner in planning, carrying out the capture and removal campaign. abolish Nicolás Maduro (also known as the “Prime Target”), overthrow the current government and replace him with President Juan Guaido, the 42-page contract, published on May 7 by the Washington Post of the United States.
The document included Guaido’s signature, although the opposition leader said it was not his signature.
Under the agreement, Silvercorp USA had 45 days to train and equip the mercenaries before they invaded Venezuela to occupy key locations and start an uprising.
Rendon believes Goudreau to the point of spending $ 50,000 out of pocket to pay former United States special forces. “He complained that I was rich, while lacking money, but still bore all the costs,” Rendon recalls.
However, Rendon soon suspected that Goudreau lacked the resources and qualifications as stated, and became increasingly concerned when the former US special force. USA He repeatedly asked for more money.
Rendon lost faith in Goudreau due to “personality, psychology, and disrespect.” Guaidó also appears to suspect that the former United States Special Agent spoke too much and leaked information. “He met many people in Colombia before us, they were connected to organizations that we did not want to contact because of government involvement,” said Rendon.
The controversy over the $ 1.5 million deposit peaked in November 2019 when Goudreau, Nieto, and many Venezuelans confronted Rendon in their luxury apartment in Miami. “The debate escalated rapidly until Nieto stepped in, and we went together to the balcony to freshen up,” Rendon said.
Goudreau left without receiving a deposit. Rendon did not receive information from the former task force until April, when he received a letter from Goudreau’s lawyer asking him to pay $ 1.5 million.
The former special envoy and attorney for the United States has not commented on the plan to fail in Venezuela, nor the information Rendón gave.
Berry (left) and Denman in a speedboat off the coast of Venezuela before being arrested. Photos: NY Post.
The Venezuelan opposition is not the only party to withdraw from the agreement with the former special force of the United States. Drew White, who fought with Goudreau, Berry, and Denman in the Middle East, is one of the founding members of Silvercorp USA. However, White retired from the company in 2019 when Goudreau began planning to kidnap Maduro, saying he was “too illusory.”
“Although I want to support him as a friend, he doesn’t live in reality. What he says doesn’t make sense,” White said.
Operation Gideon began to be uncovered in late March, when Colombian police discovered that a truck full of semi-automatic rifles, bulletproof vests, and helmets was moving to a house near the Venezuelan border.
Local officials pay close attention to the site when the owner says that tenants have been late in paying. The truck driver said he must deliver the load to a person nicknamed “El Pantera”, later identified by security forces as Robert Levin Colina Ibarra, one of the eight people shot. died on landing on a beach in Venezuela.
Goudreau’s plan was made even more difficult when General Alcalá was accused by Washington of “drug trafficking.” Before appearing before US officials in March, the former Venezuelan general unveiled a campaign involving “US contractors and the Colombian government,” without giving details.
The United States government then awarded $ 15 million for information to help arrest and prosecute Maduro. This became especially important to Goudreau, especially after the $ 212.9 million deal with Rendon was canceled.
Berry claimed that the mercenaries’ plan was to land in Venezuela, kidnapping President Maduro in the presidential palace in downtown Caracas, although he did not know what to do. Meanwhile, Denman’s mission is to occupy a nearby military airport, help the plane land, and take Maduro to the United States.
Luke Denman confessed on Venezuelan television on 6/5. Video: TeleSUR.
After the raid was disabled, President Maduro declared that Venezuelan intelligence had infiltrated the ranks of mercenaries and was ready to act. “We know everything they eat, drink and who sponsors them,” he added.
Guaidó repeatedly denied involvement in the conspiracy and said Maduro was responsible for allowing it to happen.
On May 9, the Venezuelan Ministry of Justice accused Berry and Denman of terrorism, illegally transported military weapons, colluded with criminals and said they could face a prison sentence of 25 to 30 years, while declaring an order to international raid for Goudreau.
United States President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper denied that Washington was involved in the raid, while United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country would use all the tools available to bring US citizens home. .
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