Donald Trump creaked on Fox News on Friday, May 8, commenting on the fiasco. Five days earlier, the Venezuelan authorities had announced the failure of an attempt to land a formidable rebel armada summed up in two skiffs and around twenty men. "It was clearly not led by General George Washington", he quipped. "It was not a good attack. I think they were taken before they were even on the ground. If we were to do something with Venezuela, we wouldn't do it like that, " added the President of the United States, who openly wishes the departure of Nicolas Maduro.
It is rare for such a shipwreck to be announced in advance by a news agency. However, this is what happened for this incredible equipped. 1er May, Associated Press reporter Joshua Goodman publishes a very long dispatch devoted to "The failed attempt to chase Maduro led by a former green beret". The article describes in detail the efforts of a former American soldier, Jordan Goudreau, to set up a small militia capable of landing on the Venezuelan coast in order to trigger a general uprising.
Only one detail is missing from the story: the operation presented as aborted will really take place, two days later. It resulted in the death of eight insurgents and the capture of the others, including two American nationals, and revived the memory of a past of soldiers of fortune and of American twists in Latin America.
Failed coup attempt against Nicolas Maduro
It all started a year earlier, after an already failed coup attempt against Nicolas Maduro, in April 2019. At that time, Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, nostalgic claimed for the anticastrist debacle of the Bay of Pigs, in 1961, weighs with all its weight to convince part of the Venezuelan regime to turn against the heir of Hugo Chavez. Without success.
A few weeks later, a motley coalition finds itself in a large hotel in Bogota, Colombia. There are historic opponents, chavism renegades and the inevitable mercenaries, represented in this case by Jordan Goudreau who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The former soldier was charged in February, in the same country, with the security of a concert in support of Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, recognized by the United States and a good part of the countries of Latin America. and Europe. The concert was funded by British tycoon Richard Branson.
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