MIAMI – Colombia’s police leader is asking a former U. S. Green Beret for a plot to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro to “respond for his crimes” in the South American country.
The announcement was made through General Oscar Atehortia a day after police arrested four Venezuelans tied to clandestine camps, where he said American veteran Jordan Goudreau had helped assemble and exercise a small volunteer organization to bring out the cross-border raid.
“They were making plans to destabilize movements from Colombian territory in order to undermine our institutions,” Atehoria said at a press conference with President Ivon Duque, who said the FBI and the U. S. National Security Council helped in the five-month investigation.
On May 1, the Associated Press revealed the lifestyle of the secret camps and Goudreau’s involvement in the plot; two days later, despite his complaint, a small contingent got ahead anyway and was temporarily arrested by Maduro’s security forces, who claimed to have killed eight of the “mercenaries” and arrested dozens of others, as well as two of Goudreau’s special forces friends, Luke Denman and Airan Berry. Both Americans pleaded guilty to arms trafficking, terrorism, and conspiracy; were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Goudreau, in interviews on The Day of the Raid in Florida, assumed duty for defeat on the battlefield, but blamed the Venezuelan Opposition, who said he had recruited him to incite regime change, and then gave him Maduro’s bloodless eyes in a propaganda blow. , blamed the Trump administration, which denied playing a role in what has been called the “Bay of Pigs,” for the fiasco invasion of Cuba in 1961 through anti-communist exiles.
Standing next to his police chief, Duque said the plot was probably funded by Maduro’s “dictatorial regime,” but provided no evidence of that claim.
Of the four arrested on Wednesday, two are brothers of Captain Antonio Sequea, who commanded the break-in stranded on the beach and is now imprisoned in Venezuela. Rayder Russo is also detained in Colombia, a Maduro civilian involved in an assassination attempt in 2018. an army parade that employs a drone loaded with explosives.
None of the four men participated in the raid, and Russo, who defected from the sterile fields in January, had cooperated with the intelligence of the Colombian army, according to a user familiar with research on condition of anonymity to talk about delicate transactions.
The fourth suspect, Yacsy Alvarez, from whom he said he was running with Goudreau and the leader of the plot, withdrew Venezuelan General Cliver Alcalá to smuggle weapons for volunteers with illicit funding from abroad, into Him. He said a stash of attack rifles, sniper telescopes and veiled vision glasses seized by police on March 23 bound for camps along Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
Three days later, a federal court in New York charged Alcalá with drug charges outside of him. Before surrendering, he took over the weapons, claiming that they belonged to the “Venezuelan people” in their struggle to claim their democracy from Maduro. He said Colombia is taking steps to tell Alcala in the United States that it is under investigation.
Alcalá has never concealed his intentions from the Colombian authorities, who in turn kept their U. S. counterparts informed, revealed the AP’s investigation, which brazenly sought its concept of educating Venezuelan army deserters for a raid on a June 2019 assembly with Colombia’s National Intelligence Directorate and called for their support said a former Colombian staffman familiar with the conversation.
Alcala boasted of his relationship with Goudreau and described him as a former CIA agent.
When Colombians consulted with their CIA counterparts at the U. S. Embassy in Bogota, they learned that the three-time Bronze Star winner for his bravery in Iraq and Afghanistan was never an agent. He then asked his hosts to avoid talking about an invasion or being expelled. said the former Colombian civilist.
Goudreau has spoken publicly since May and he and his lawyer have responded to requests for comment. He also faces fees in Venezuela, while the U. S. FBI investigated whether he violated U. S. law that requires any U. S. company to supply weapons or army equipment, as well as military education and advice, to U. S. aliens to off-discharge State Department approval.