Twenty Venezuelans, mostly former police officers and soldiers in T-shirts and swim trunks, were packed into a house on the outskirts of a city in the north of Colombia.
Rendón says that while the plan sounded crazy, he was impressed with Goudreau’s military record.Eventually, Rendón signed a bizarre contract Goudreau prepared. But his confidence in his theory was challenged several hours later when an odd video began to ricochet around Twitter. CARACAS – Two soldiers and a civilian were captured early Monday morning in the San Miguel sector, La Guaira, according to military sources. American 'mercenaries' detained after failed plot: Maduro. He grew up in Calgary, enthralled by family war stories. officials are investigating Goudreau for arms trafficking, according to the Family, friends, and former colleagues say they can’t understand what happened. Not long after, Denman sent an encrypted text to his brother Mark with details of the job. Verbatim copying and distribution of articles is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved. Drug seizure, he figured. On May 5, I spoke at length to Drew White, a former US Army Green Beret and the COO of the Silvercorp mercenary firm which spearheaded a botched invasion of in Venezuela on Sunday, May 3. Jordan Goudreau (born 1976) is a Canadian-American mercenary who claimed responsibility for organizing the Macuto Bay incursion into Venezuelan territory on 3 May 2020. Ephraim Mattos, a former Navy SEAL who offers medical training and humanitarian aid to civilians in conflict zones, says he and some colleagues visited one of the operation’s training bases last September and found no highly trained army, but an insurrectionist Fyre Festival. He could be moody and unpredictable, friends say. Picking up groceries for the family was beneath him, and he didn’t just leave the toilet seat up, he’d argue about it with her. The State Department denied prior knowledge, yet U.S.- backed Juan Guiadó, the self-declared interim President of Venezuela, and figurehead of several failed coup attempts was revealed to … Goudreau’s lawyers sent Rendón a letter demanding the retainer, but he never responded, and they haven’t sued for it.Goudreau’s fighting force in Colombia remained far from what he was promising. Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab reported Friday [Aug. 7] that the two former U.S. military officers, Luke Denmnan and Airan Berry, who participated in the failed invasion attempt in Venezuela [May 4], were sentenced to 20 years in prison.Denmnan and Berry tried to force their way into Venezuela along with 50 other citizens of the Caribbean country to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Five days later, instead of providing the names of his backers, Goudreau returned to complain about his expenses and demand his retainer, according to Rendón.
David Adams | Transition to … Goudreau’s father says they haven’t spoken in a few months, but that his son always liked helping people. He enlisted in February 2001, shortly after obtaining U.S. citizenship, and qualified for the U.S. Army Special Forces (aka the Green Berets) around the time the second Bush administration ordered the invasion of Iraq. “Where’s the water? 5. “My personal opinion of that guy is nothing is ever genuine,” the veteran says. Goudreau was to fly to Caracas when the job was done.Of course, they never got that far. We recommend that subscribers with access get our free email subscription and share our articles on social media. “They leave after a couple weeks when they realize it’s not a get-rich-quick scheme.” Mattos doubted the assembled forces would ever go through with their plan.Former friends attribute Goudreau’s next moves to his greed and blinding self-importance.
BAY OF FOOLS – Three More Silvercorp Mercenaries Arrested in Failed Attack on Venezuela. The U.S. Silvercorp employees, former members of the U.S. Army Green Beret Special Forces, were detained in the second attempt of an attack against the Venezuelan coast. Plans are to publish individual articles on this site, along with a PDF of what would be the printed version. That’s little comfort to Berry’s and Denman’s families, who say Goudreau stopped answering their calls after the first day or so. The paramilitary group behind the foiled operation, called Gedeon, was based around security contractor Silvercorp USA, which has been linked to U.S. President Donald Trump. Most of these details come from statements Berry, Denman, and their collaborators made to Venezuelan interrogators, possibly under duress, after they were arrested on the morning of May 3 aboard a two-engine motorboat. The results were embarrassing.Nelson Galvis slept through the first shots. It promised Goudreau a $1.5 million retainer and $212 million—payable in barrels of oil—if he succeeded in deposing Maduro.
Goudreau began shouting, and Nieto had to step between them.