Venezuela Claims To Have Captured Two American Mercenaries Involved In Failed Invasion

Daily Mail: Two arrested US 'mercenaries playing Rambo' are paraded after failed attempt 'to kill' Venezuela's Maduro – masterminded by a former green beret - which president blamed on America and Colombia and left eight attackers dead

* Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, were arrested Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said
* Maduro said they were among a group of 'mercenaries' attempting to assassinate him
* He has accused Trump administration and Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó, who have denied involvement
* The U.S. has led a campaign to oust Maduro, indicting the socialist leader as a narco-trafficker and offering a $15 million reward for his arrest in March
* 'But it has nothing to do with our government,' Trump said Tuesday of the failed plot
* Ex-Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, 43, has claimed responsibility and said its aim was to capture Maduro
* Goudreau was planning a coup by training 300 soldiers in Colombia, reports say
* He is a former associate of Keith Schiller, Donald Trump's bodyguard
* Schiller accompanied Goudreau to a meeting last May to discuss security with representatives of Guaidó
* A shadowy group of US billionaires led by Roen Kraft promised support for the 'private coup' and also met with Schiller and Goudreau
* Kraft allegedly lured prospective donors with the promise of preferential access to negotiate deals in the energy and mining sectors with an eventual Guaidó government
* Guaidó has said he has 'no relationship nor responsibility for any actions' taken by Goudreau, and that Maduro is using the incident as a distraction

Two U.S. citizens were arrested in Venezuela Monday among a group of 'mercenaries' aiming to capture the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the socialist leader has claimed.

Luke Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, both former U.S. special forces soldiers, were identified by Maduro during a press conference a day after Venezuelan authorities said they foiled a beach raid. The president says it was an attempt to assassinate him.

Maduro held up a pair of blue U.S. passports, reading off the names and birth dates on them in a nationwide broadcast on state television, calling the arrested men 'terrorist mercenaries’.

He blamed the attacks on the Trump administration, Venezuela's opposition leader and neighboring Colombia, all of which have denied involvement. The State Department did not provide any immediate comment on the alleged arrests.

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WNU Editor: Venezuelan President Maduro is personally protected by hundreds of Russian and Cuban "bodyguards". It is going to take more than just a few ex-US Special Forces and Venezuelan ex-soldiers in a dingy to overthrow him. A lot more.

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