U.S. veteran behind failed Venezuela plot says two American mercenaries detained

U.S. veteran behind failed Venezuela plot says two American mercenaries detained
# 05 May 2020 08:09 (UTC +04:00)

A U.S. military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into Venezuela to oust President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday that two U.S. citizens working with him have been detained by Venezuelan authorities.

Venezuelan authorities said 10 people involved in a “mercenary incursion” were detained on Monday along the Caribbean coast, saying the 10 were part of the U.S.-backed plot.

Venezuelan state television said two U.S. citizens were among those detained but did not provide their identities.

But the American military veteran, Jordan Goudreau, who leads a Florida-based security company called Silvercorp USA, on Monday told Reuters that two Americans working with him, Aaron Berry and Luke Denman, had been captured.

“They’re working with me. Those are my guys,” he said by telephone.

The No. 2 official of Venezuela’s Socialist Party, Diosdado Cabello, earlier on Monday tweeted a video showing one of the detained Venezuelans involved in the plot telling an unidentified official that two Americans were among those arrested.

The State Department did not provide any immediate comment on the alleged arrests. U.S. officials have strongly denied any U.S. government involvement in the incursions.

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