Cabello said it was carried out by neighboring Colombia with United States backing in a plot to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. Both countries have repeatedly denied earlier Venezuelan allegations of backing for military plots against the socialist government.

“Those who assume they can attack the institutional framework in Venezuela will have to assume the consequences of their action," said Cabello, adding that one of the detained claimed to be an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Authorities said they found Peruvian documents, high-caliber weapons, satellite phones, uniforms and helmets adorned with the U.S. flag.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s government said it foiled a marine incursion on Sunday by “terrorist mercenaries” who attempted to enter the country on speedboats from neighboring Colombia, adding security forces killed eight of the assailants.

President Nicolas Maduro frequently accuses political adversaries of attempting to overthrow his administration with the support of the United States, which has vowed to force him from office through sanctions that have crippled the OPEC nation’s oil exports.

Critics of the ruling Socialist Party often dismiss such accusations as stunts used as an excuse to detain opponents of the government.

The group landed early on Sunday on the coast of La Guaira, about 20 miles (32 km) from the capital Caracas, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said in a televised address.

More:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-security/venezuela-government-says-eight-killed-in-foiled-mercenary-incursion-idUSKBN22F0M9?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29&&rpc=401

Since the last invasion by a cruise ship was foiled

for anything if they think it will somehow advance their agendas.

were found living in quarters constructed on the ranch of a man, Roberto Alonso, a Cuban "exile" (who ran after this discovery to Miami where he lives now), in a plot to overthrow Hugo Chavez after taking a National Guard armory and stealing the weapons first. The government was tipped off after they were seen training on the ranch, and living there:

Colombian paramilitaries arrested in Venezuela
Jeremy Lennard and agencies

Mon 10 May 2004 07.20 EDT

Venezuelan police have arrested more than 70 Colombian paramilitary fighters who were allegedly plotting to strike against the government in Caracas, according to the country's president, Hugo Chávez.

Opposition leaders, however, were quick to dismiss the president's claim, calling the raids on a farm less than 10 miles from the capital a ruse to divert attention from their efforts to oust Mr Chávez in a recall vote.

During his weekly radio and TV broadcast, Hello Mr President, Mr Chávez said that 53 paramilitary fighters were arrested at the farm early on Sunday and another 24 were picked up after fleeing into the countryside.

The country's security forces were uncovering additional clues and searching for more suspects, he said, adding that the arrests were proof of a conspiracy against his government involving Cuban and Venezuelan exiles in Florida and neighbouring Colombia.

Mr Chávez also claimed the plot was backed by Venezuela's mostly pro-opposition news media and said that the raids had "eliminated the seed of a terrorist group".

"Now they are importing terrorists," Mr Chávez said of his opponents, adding that the farm - in the municipality of El Hatillo - was owned by Roberto Alonso, a Cuban exile with links to Venezuelan and Cuban exiles.

"There are people in the United States who keep thinking how to start a war in Venezuela so that they can justify an invasion," he said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/10/venezuela.jeremylennard

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Colombian paramilitaries being rounded up at the ranch outside Caracas, owned by current Miami resident, Roberto Alonso, (brother of Hollywood "actress" María Conchita Alonso ) :





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Colombian militia camp found inside Venezuela
April 30, 2008
By IANS,

Caracas : Venezuela’s armed forces have discovered a camp set up by a Colombian militia group inside the country and arrested four of its members, Spain’s EFE news agency reported Wednesday quoting a top military official.

The secret camp of the outlawed United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, or AUC, was found last Thursday in the western state of Zulia near the Colombian borders, General Jesus Gonzalez said, adding that the camp was set up to train the right-wing paramilitaries.

He also said that several documents, 19 uniforms with AUC insignia, weapons, munitions, explosives and 80 kgs of cocaine were found from the site.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had earlier warned about the infiltration of Colombian paramilitaries in his country, as part of a plan to destabilise his leftist government.

The AUC, blamed by the UN for 80 percent of the war crimes in Colombia’s internal conflict, demobilized more than 31,000 of its fighters between 2003 and 2006 amid negotiations with the administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

Made up of rural defence cooperatives formed more than 20 years ago to battle leftist rebels, most of the AUC militias degenerated into death squads, carrying out massacres of peasants, journalists and trade unionists suspected of having sympathy for the leftists.

http://twocircles.net/2008apr30/colombian_militia_camp_found_inside_venezuela.html#.VzONyOT2bmQ

(Short article, no more at link.)

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A few years later:

Venezuelan Government Foils Destabilisation Plans

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim


Military and government officials have stated that Colombian paramilitaries procured Venezuelan military uniforms, C4 explosives and 50 high capacity magazines for use in an attack on Venezuelan soil (YVKE).

Merida, April 12th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan security forces have foiled a plot to violently destabilise the country, Vice-president Jorge Arreaza announced this afternoon.

“The Bolivarian National Armed Forces and state security agencies have dismantled a plan that would affect the election or post-election,” Arreaza told Venezuelan media.

He further stated that the plot involved Salvadorian mercenaries who “wanted, but could not, intervene to disrupt the peace of the republic at the last minute”.

The government first announced the presence of two groups of Salvadorian mercenaries operating in Venezuela on April 6.

Internal Affairs and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol warned that the groups were funded by drug trafficking, and have links to far right terrorists including Luis Posada Carriles. Currently living in Miami, Carriles has been convicted in Panama of a number of terrorist attacks, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airline that claimed 73 lives.

More:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110812938

Someone, so long ago, said that South Florida looks like Central and South American countries have vomited up the war criminals they just can't stand anymore on its shores. So many of them end up trying to hide out there, in the country they're pretty damned sure won't easily return them to face the people of their countries.

During a world pandemic. And when Donnie Do-little's numbers are sinking. Sounds about right.

"Two things they have plenty of. Cocaine and oil. And No one's buying oil."

Eric Prince. Duty calls..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

I actually gasped when I read the twitter thread.
This fits together doesn't it?

Covid has become a big distraction for what the crime family in the WH is really doing behind it all.

Trump was put in the WH because the global mob needed a big distraction.


Explains why he's dragging his feet on Covid prevention. And why he's flat out encouraging it to spread.

and that gives the deepest criminal class so much time and space to get their dirty business done.

Makes the human race looks so twisted, so worthless, when creatures like this have infested it.

He has moved beyond his earliest attempts at portraying the soul of deadly power:



It's Bond, Eric Bond.



He knows where you live!



Whoo! Run away, run away! So scary, keeds!

Or will he retire to Dubai?

Talk about a guy with blood on his hands...and a soul darker than Darth Vader.

Like I'm going to believe anything the dictator Maduro says.

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that all the worlds ills are the fault of the United States.

regarding the Americas in the last 200 years. A lot of progressive people (more likely to read than right-wingers) have gone to the trouble of learning about their own country's history, some of it only knowable as formerly classified and unavailable documents finally are unsealed due to researchers using the F.O.I.A.

A lot of information has been buried deeply, out of sight to make sure the US public doesn't know until it's far too late, as so many are aware.

Doing your homework, investing your own consciousness and energy in research, would make all the difference in the world. Progressive people do care, and don't automatically swallow what is served in order to mold public perception. Gotta wake the #### up.

US history in the last 200 years.

Given the history of the dictator Maduro and his blaming all of his country's ills on the US, I wouldn't believe a thing he has to say.

And given the history of some here blaming the US for all of the world's ills, I take what is said with a healthy grain of skepticism.

Maduro and his goons are facing some real opposition, and they are going full-bore banana republic.

The attack on the cruise ship showed the "competence" of their version of the coast guard, (cruise ship had minor damage from being rammed, Venezuelan boat sunk,) and so should we believe Maduro and his goons bragging about this "attack on a port?"

I don't.

It looks too much like simple propaganda, "Errr...never mind that cruise ship attack fiasco, we found American mercenaries trying to attack one of our ports!"

And bringing up incidents from over 15 years ago, does not excuse Maduro in the least.

with respect, it sounds like you bought some of it.

The raid happened and two Americans are in custody. Their names are Luke Denman and Airan Berry.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trump-denies-ties-venezuelan-attack-us-men-jailed-70517786

Even if Trump and his people deny what happened, I really doubt it.
It's from past experience of Trump lies.

BUT...

Maduro and his own people are just as bad, and in the case of their own economy, far worse.

So if a tiny group of halfassed "mercenaries" thought they could just roar into Venezuela and take over, it's no surprise they failed so badly.

It doesn't change the facts about Maduro and his people being corrupt AF, and those who don't kiss Maduro's butt are starving to death.