Russia, China and Israel Get Eurasia, US Gets South America (Well, They're Trying) - American Exceptionalism Over the Top - Mr. Goudreau Goes To Colombia (Narco State) - That's Where the Money Flows - $212 Million Worth of Incompetence

Ed.'s note: Readers are asked to go to Silvercorp USA's website first and have a look at the promo video for this merc company that seems to have gotten in over its head in Venezuela. What's with all this bravado and Hollywood-like production for a merc company that gets paid to blow shit up and kill people? If that's not enough, social media is used to glamorize Silvercorp USA's bravado image. If America's image isn't already bad enough around the world now this. It's likely these mercenaries will be put through a Venezuelan military tribunal and executed for terrorism.

News update for 15 May 2020: 'I've never seen a contract for toppling a govt': Venezuelan VP decries Guaido's hiring of US mercenaries to Rafael Correa

News update for 6 May 2020: New Details Emerge Linking U.S. to Latest Coup Attempt in Venezuela

News update for 11 May 2020: BAY OF FOOLS – Three More Silvercorp Mercenaries Arrested In Failed Attack On Venezuela
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Source: Fort Russ

PHOTO + VIDEO – Humiliated Silvercorp U.S Special Forces Veterans Captured By Venezuelan Security

By Joaquin Flores | May 7, 2020

CARACAS – The authorities of Venezuela announced the arrest of 114 saboteurs, the search continues for 92 more, who managed to penetrate the country. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the detention of two US citizens among this detachment. He specified that 25 thousand military men were mobilized to search for the remaining saboteurs.

"Among those captured were a traitor Antonio Sequera and a citizen named Baduel, who stated that among the invaders were two Americans […]," said Maduro during a televised address.

US citizens detained during the operation are Luke Denman and Aaron Berry. Maduro even showed the documents that were discovered with them.

Responsibility for the attempted invasion was claimed by Jordan Goodro, an ex-employee of the American special forces from Florida, who runs the security company Silvercorp USA. Denman and Berry, he said, are also retired Special Forces Forces – the Green Berets served together in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"They played Rambo. They played heroes," said Maduro, emphasizing that the Venezuelan authorities were aware of the preparation of the invasion even before it began.

Earlier, the Venezuelan Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the prevention of an attempt to land militants from Colombia in the northern zone of the country.

According to official information, the militants were planning to get to the republic on high-speed boats, and the landing was planned at the port city of La Guaira, 30 km from Caracas. The militants were resisted by the Venezuelan Armed Forces. As a result of the clash, eight saboteurs were eliminated.

Later, the Venezuelan leader said that the main goal of the militants' operation was to kill him , and he described the actions of saboteurs as "a terrorist act in the midst of a pandemic."

Please go to Fort Russ to read the rest of the article.
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Source: Bellingcat

The Invasion of Venezuela, Brought To You By Silvercorp USA

May 5, 2020 | By Giancarlo Fiorella (Translations: Español)

The video begins with Jordan Goudreau posing confidently, flanked by a man wearing an armour plate and a Venezuela flag wrapped around his shoulder. The man introduces Goudreau in a stern tone. Goudreau begins to speak with the terseness of a battle-hardened warrior as he confirms that an amphibious operation into Venezuela is underway. Goudreau begins by saying:

At 1700 hours, a daring amphibious raid was launched from the border of Colombia deep into the heart of Caracas. Our men are continuing to fight right now. Our units have been activated in the south, east and west of Venezuela. Commander Nieto is with me—is co-located—and commander Sequea is on the ground now, fighting.

It is the afternoon of Sunday, May 3, 2020, and Goudreau is confirming that a botched attempt to infiltrate Venezuela with a team of expatriate soldiers (and later, two U.S. citizens) on a hopeless mission to topple the government of President Nicolas Maduro is his doing. By the time the video was first shared on Twitter, eight of Goudreau's men were dead and two others captured as the boat they were on was intercepted at sea by the Venezuelan authorities. A second boat, soon on its way to Venezuela, would also be intercepted at sea the following day, resulting in the capture of eight of Goudreau's men, including two American citizens.

Over a period of 48 hours starting on the morning of May 3, Goudreau's Silvercorp USA would-be mercenary force would make headlines across the world as the spectacular failure of the operation came to light.

Mr. Goudreau Goes To Colombia

Goudreau's name appeared in relation to Venezuela on May 1, in an article published by the Associated Press. The article outlines Goudreau's involvement in a far-fetched scheme to help raise a mercenary army with Cliver Alcalá, a former major general in the Venezuelan army and lifelong supporter of former president Hugo Chavez who had been living in exile in Colombia since 2018.

The article explains that the goal of this force would be to infiltrate Venezuela and spark a rebellion that would topple Maduro from power. Under the best light, the article paints Goudreau, a former U.S. Army special forces operative and three-time Bronze Star recipient, as a misguided entrepreneur who saw an opportunity to make a lot of money for Silvercorp USA, his private security company, by signing a contract with the Venezuelan opposition to train Alcalá's men. As the article makes clear, the plot was so far-fetched that opposition leader Juan Guaido's intermediates eventually cut contact with him, and some who knew Goudreau in Colombia said that he was "in way over his head" (the article is jaw-dropping and you should read it).

Aside from introducing Goudreau and his misadventures in Colombia to the world, the article brought to light the plot that he and Alcalá had plotted to infiltrate Venezuela with former Venezuelan soldiers. There is evidence that the Venezuelan government was aware of the plot as early as March 24, but if they had been blind to the scheme, they would have found out about it in the article on May 1. And, with Alcalá in detention in the United States on drug trafficking charges since late March, any move now, when he had maximum visibility, would have been ill-advised for Goudreau.

Yet that's when these just slightly amphibious raids began.

Silvercorp USA And Jordan Goudreau

Goudreau's Florida-based private security firm, Silvercorp USA, was established in March 2018, just weeks after the Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and another 17 wounded. The first Instagram posts from Silvercorp USA show a bizarre montage of school shootings, followed by a narration from Goudreau.

Please go to Bellingcat to read the entire article.
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#4May Nuestro pueblo, firme en la lucha no se acobarda y hoy ha reafirmado su voluntad de defender su Patria, dignos hijos de Bolívar y del Gigante Chávez enfrentaron con #FuriaBolivariana al enemigo apátrida e invasor. Que nadie se equivoque ¡Bastante Pueblo hay aquí! pic.twitter.com/6kchKa4Rkv

— Rodolfo Marco Torres (@RMarcoTorres) May 5, 2020

#4May A través de la inteligencia social y la unidad cívico militar policial se logró la captura de estos mercenarios. Subestiman a un pueblo que con coraje se encuentra preparado para defender nuestra soberanía ¡La Patria no se vende, la Patria se defiende! #UniónSoberaníaYPaz pic.twitter.com/uME7cnR2ve

— Rodolfo Marco Torres (@RMarcoTorres) May 4, 2020

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