By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on May 7, 2020
US mercenaries captured in Venezuela
On April 29, Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, urgently and not infrequently called for the readiness of his embassy in Caracas “for when Maduro leaves power. It is not necessary to be a political strategist to realize that it was a wink to the group of mercenaries trained for months by former U.S. Green Berets in three camps located in neighboring Colombia to carry out a military incursion into Venezuela, which 72 hours later received a sovereign beating from the Bolivarian civil-military-police union and in which two former U.S. military members, working for Silver Corp a US military contractor company specializing in training mercenaries, participated.
The existence of the camps had been denounced several times by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who offered details about the Colombian government’s complicity, support and sponsorship of these activities. Shortly after Colombian President Ivan Duque’s last visit to the White House, Maduro, who evidently has excellent sources in Bogotá, revealed that the president returned with orders from Trump to carry out an aggression against sovereign Venezuela.
A scandal had broken out in Colombia when the former general and deserter of the Venezuelan army, Cliver Alcalá, declared that an arms cache occupied by the Colombian prosecutor’s office was under his responsibility and destined for entry into Venezuela by way of three groups of Venezuelan military defectors who would make an attempt on the life of Maduro and the main Bolivarian leaders. Alcalá, who had been living in Colombia for three years, made this statement to Radio W from his home and was very precise with the information. “The arms seized in Colombia belonged to the Venezuelan people, in the context of a pact or agreement signed by President (Juan) Guaidó, Mr. JJ Rendón, Mr. (Sergio) Vergara and US advisors”.
He added that he had reported this to the Colombian authorities. The signing of the contract and the involvement of Silvercorp USA was confirmed last Sunday in a video by the owner of the firm, also former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau. Interestingly, Alcalá was not only not bothered by the Colombian security forces, but they facilitated his surrender to the United States government, which strangely had just offered a reward for his capture, for having belonged to the non-existent “suns cartel” when he was in a military command position, an invention of the United States’ vile anti-Venezuelan smear campaign.
After all this, when it is no secret that Duque is a Trump’s lackey and that there are seven U.S. military bases in Colombia, one would have to be very naive to believe that Uribe and Trump’s pupil is not perfectly informed about the subversive plans against Venezuela. Come on, these are cooked up in the Palacio de Nariño with a direct recipe from the White House. That is why the sudden dismantling by Chavism of the mercenary incursion from Colombia has a significant political charge and confirms its unity, cohesion and high combativeness. It has been an action of Bolivarian naval and military units in which popular intelligence and the militias have played an important role.
The capture of one of the mercenary groups by a handful of fishermen, militiamen and municipal police who surrendered to the invaders onboard the same boat in which they intended to land is very instructive. Macuto, in the state of La Guaira, the point on the coast of La Guaira state where the terrorist group that was disbanded last Sunday was trying to penetrate with several casualties, is less than 50 kilometers from Caracas. That fact and the command composition of the contingent, which traveled in two speedboats, tends to confirm the reports of the Bolivarian intelligence services that the terrorists’ plan was to attack the Miraflores Palace and assassinate President Maduro. However, the statement of one of the two former U.S. military members of the group captured in Venezuela, who said he had orders from his boss to arrest the Venezuelan executive and take him to the United States, is striking. Disinformation? Delirium?
These events take place in a very vicious context when Trump has just launched “the largest anti-drug operation ever conducted in the Caribbean.” But with unheard of cynicism directed against Venezuela. Not against Colombia, which produces 90 percent of the world’s cocaine. In the midst of the pandemic, the White House criminal group is planting hatred, racism, white supremacism and conflict. It accuses the WHO and China of the global spread of the coronavirus in an attempt to divert attention from their irresponsible, inept and criminal management of the pandemic in the United States. All in pursuit of the re-election of the worst president in U.S. history.
Source: La Jornada, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau