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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/BrasilWire/status/1246427232307904512

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Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Hey Bolsonaro always did get wistful for the military dictatorship. It should be an honor for him to pave the way to the next one

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Junta 4: This Time It's Personal!

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/07/coronavirus-live-news-boris-johnson-intensive-care-uk-donald-trump-america-us-praying-recovery-latest-updates?page=with:block-5e8ca4438f08008f0919ea9d#block-5e8ca4438f08008f0919ea9d posted:

Refugees from Venezuela’s crippling financial crisis are beginning to return home from Colombia, where lockdown measures are preventing them from earning a living, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Amid hyperinflation, an economic crisis and political violence in Venezuela, about 1.8 million people have fled across the border to Colombia since 2015. But a three week nationwide lockdown in Colombia to slow the spread of the pandemic has frozen the formal sector in which many of them now work, NRC reports.

Despite the challenges faced by many in Venezuela, migrants told NRC staff that they will at least not have to pay rent or utilities in their home country, and will be reunited with family.

Dominika Arseniuk, the NRC’s Colombia country director, said:

quote:

Venezuelans that sought refuge in Colombia are losing their financial lifeline because of Covid-19. Hundreds are now returning home from exile and many more could follow as lockdown continues and if aid is not provided.

We all need to do more to include Venezuelan migrants and refugees living on the fringes in our Covid-19 response planning, or risk more returning to a life of uncertainty.

Despite the challenges many face in Venezuela, where the economy has been crippled by economic sanctions imposed by the US, as well as economic mismanagement, migrants told NRC that if they return at least they will not have to pay rent or utility bills, and they will be reunited with family.

:thunk:

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



wow who could imagined gusanos had no sense shame and hypocrisy

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Rafael Correa was popular, and when he left, his successor beat the neoliberal challenger. Only then, his successor took a massive neoliberal turn as well, big IMF loans and dictatorial behavior. I think Correa is ineligible to run again but now they're also trying to charge him with a bunch of poo poo due to his continued popularity.

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1247596349975072769

Fast Luck has issued a correction as of 19:54 on Apr 7, 2020

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

https://twitter.com/CubaStandard/status/1249387348665778176

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008


demons made flesh

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1253303012304605186
https://twitter.com/ovargas52/status/1253445683690057728?s=21

Seems a little worse than usual...

The right wing coup states Bolivia and Ecuador are really floundering right now under the coronavirus, not unlike the right wing master state the US!

Fast Luck has issued a correction as of 00:04 on Apr 24, 2020

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat
Something to somewhat lighten the mood:

https://mobile.twitter.com/quesada_Kayla/status/1254547610452590592

https://mobile.twitter.com/quesada_Kayla/status/1254572394330685442

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
please CLAP

Ora Tzo
Feb 26, 2016

HEEEERES TONYYYY
America has gone and released a spiritual sequel to the Bay of Pigs while we weren't looking.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8279435/Secret-military-operation-led-ex-Green-Beret-ouster-Venezuelas-Maduro-fails.html

quote:

A secret military operation to overthrow Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro Moros was simple, but perilous.

Some 300 heavily armed volunteers would sneak into Venezuela from the northern tip of South America. Along the way, they would raid military bases in the socialist country and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in President Nicolás Maduro's arrest.

What could go wrong? As it turns out, pretty much everything.

The ringleader of the plot is now jailed in the US on narcotics charges. Authorities in the US and Colombia are asking questions about the role of his muscular American adviser, former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau.

And dozens of desperate combatants who flocked to secret training camps in Colombia said they have been left to fend for themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic.

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


Ora Tzo posted:

America has gone and released a spiritual sequel to the Bay of Pigs while we weren't looking.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8279435/Secret-military-operation-led-ex-Green-Beret-ouster-Venezuelas-Maduro-fails.html

lol owned

Kurnugia
Sep 2, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Ora Tzo posted:

America has gone and released a spiritual sequel to the Bay of Pigs while we weren't looking.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8279435/Secret-military-operation-led-ex-Green-Beret-ouster-Venezuelas-Maduro-fails.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMqKqH0u9rw

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Ora Tzo posted:

America has gone and released a spiritual sequel to the Bay of Pigs while we weren't looking.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8279435/Secret-military-operation-led-ex-Green-Beret-ouster-Venezuelas-Maduro-fails.html

Lol. First as Tragedy. Then as farce.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
that’s what happens when you buy your own hype

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

quote:

Shortly after, Colombian police stopped a truck transporting a cache of brand new weapons and tactical equipment worth around $150,000, including spotting scopes, night vision goggles, two-way radios and 26 American-made assault rifles with the serial numbers rubbed off. Fifteen brown-colored helmets were manufactured by High-End Defense Solutions, a Miami-based military equipment vendor owned by a Venezuelan immigrant family.

High-End Defense Solutions is the same company that Goudreau visited in November and December, allegedly to source weapons, according to two former Venezuelan soldiers who claim to have helped the American select the gear but later had a bitter falling out with Goudreau amid accusations that they were moles for Maduro.

Company owner Mark Von Reitzenstein did not respond to repeated email and phone requests seeking comment.

every loving time

uninterrupted
Jun 20, 2011
remember when there were a bunch of planes linked to the CIA flying from Miami to Caracas and everyone said it was prob nothing?

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

looks like their was another failed incursion into Venezuela last night

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1256963936093683712?s=20

Nothing but respect for these Troops
https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1256987140744982528?s=20

also is John Bolton now doing regime change as a hobby, or is he still on payroll as like a freelancer
https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1256015582689988610?s=20

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



lmao

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1256977824650493953

wasn't even a fight, they just got caught and could only drown or give up

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

So the AP is normally pretty hostile to the Venezuelan government, but they did have the recent story about a different aborted invasion. Which they published just days before this attempt.

Was that like a purposeful limited hangout to try to create a false sense of security in Caracas?

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Atrocious Joe posted:

So the AP is normally pretty hostile to the Venezuelan government, but they did have the recent story about a different aborted invasion. Which they published just days before this attempt.

Was that like a purposeful limited hangout to try to create a false sense of security in Caracas?

I think the consent manufacturing apparatus isn't really focused on it and keeping their journos in line at the moment. They even reported that Maduro's admin is officially designating them as terrorists, tho that isn't the language the AP is using though they would in most other scenarios, which seems unusual.

They did end the article with a hint, true or not, that Maduro's forces may be finally cracking down on all the opposition hangers on that are conspiring with a foreign government to overthrow him

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is

if i were maduro i'd personally interrogate those captured mercenaries and eat empenadas the entire time

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I doubt it’s a grand plan

it’s unlike Bolivia in that there just isn’t an easy in so they are flailing trying anything

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

every attempting is just flailing by the imperialists until they managed to get a coup or civil war going.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I mean most coups are causing mass defections in the military. Unless there is like a huge paramilitary group they can fund. Judt throwing Mercs at it is a waste of time until they can get that

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



CharlestheHammer posted:

I mean most coups are causing mass defections in the military. Unless there is like a huge paramilitary group they can fund. Judt throwing Mercs at it is a waste of time until they can get that

it helps that the groundwork for getting the military on your side was totally ignored, to the point that a high ranking VZ general came to Trump/Bolton asking for his child to get cancer treatment in America, and they told him to gently caress off

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

the US has a history of inserting saboteurs in target countries to attack their infrastructure, it doesn't just have to be about the coups

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Epic High Five posted:

it helps that the groundwork for getting the military on your side was totally ignored, to the point that a high ranking VZ general came to Trump/Bolton asking for his child to get cancer treatment in America, and they told him to gently caress off

Didn't some of the people that did flip end up in the ICE camps anyways

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Feldegast42 posted:

Didn't some of the people that did flip end up in the ICE camps anyways

it has definitely happened to Venezuelan emigrants in general, don't remember any specific stories about high-level people though

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article238072964.html

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Feldegast42 posted:

Didn't some of the people that did flip end up in the ICE camps anyways

I don't think they were ever on US soil so I doubt it, but they definitely did end up exiled on the Colombia side of the border with all support withdrawn so they didn't have anywhere to go or stay lol

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

https://mobile.twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1257091744761593860 I would like 2 read this contract

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004




hahahaha

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

comedyblissoption posted:

the US has a history of inserting saboteurs in target countries to attack their infrastructure, it doesn't just have to be about the coups
well mercenaries are meant to be disposable. there are also layers of grift involved where this green beret guy might've figured he could profit from the whole venture success or fail (and be wildly profitable if it were a success). and then various boobs in the U.S. like bolton, rubio and guaido signing off because you might as well hit venezuela with a stick and see what breaks loose. and not only are mercenaries disposable, they're a defense against state indictment for stupid ventures, coups, war crimes, etc.

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

there are also layers of grift involved where this green beret guy might've figured he could profit from the whole venture success or fail (and be wildly profitable if it were a success).

Exactly https://apnews.com/79346b4e428676424c0e5669c80fc310

quote:

Among those angling in the open lobby was Jordan Goudreau, an American citizen and three-time Bronze Star recipient for bravery in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he served as a medic in U.S. Army special forces, according to five people who met with the former soldier.

Those he interacted with in the U.S. and Colombia described him in interviews alternately as a freedom-loving patriot, a mercenary and a gifted warrior scarred by battle and in way over his head.

Two former special forces colleagues said Goudreau was always at the top of his class: a cell leader with a superb intellect for handling sources, an amazing shot and a devoted mixed martial arts fighter who still cut his hair high and tight.

At the end of an otherwise distinguished military career, the Canadian-born Goudreau was investigated in 2013 for allegedly defrauding the Army of $62,000 in housing stipends. Goudreau said the investigation was closed with no charges.

After retiring in 2016, he worked as a private security contractor in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria . In 2018, he set up Silvercorp USA, a private security firm, near his home on Florida’s Space Coast to embed counter-terror agents in schools disguised as teachers. The company’s website features photos and videos of Goudreau firing machine guns in battle, running shirtless up a pyramid, flying on a private jet and sporting a military backpack with a rolled-up American flag.

Silvercorp’s website touts operations in more than 50 countries, with an advisory team made up of former diplomats, experienced military strategists and heads of multinational corporations -- none of them named. It claims to have “led international security teams” for the president of the United States.

They have an xtremely ramshackle website that doesn't even fit on the screen properly https://www.silvercorpusa.com/ "We also offer consultation and to local and state law enforcement. Our Agents have advised some of the most prolific units on the planet to include Delta Force, Israeli Duvdevan, German KSK, Polish Grom, Italian Col Moskin, British SAS, and French GIGN." lol

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Thinking about that head of a white supremacist terrorist organization who turned out to be a cia-connected private security CEO, and folks I'm freaking "cracking and pinging" due to the epic fail on the God damned news

PERPETUAL IDIOT
Sep 12, 2003

my_crimes (notarized).pdf

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
I want to know more about these people who are still somehow gullible enough to accept money from the United States to do political crimes in tyool 2020, because they must be some of the easiest marks on the planet.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
yıkıcılar ulusuna

Atrocious Joe posted:

looks like their was another failed incursion into Venezuela last night

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1256963936093683712?s=20

Nothing but respect for these Troops
https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1256987140744982528?s=20

also is John Bolton now doing regime change as a hobby, or is he still on payroll as like a freelancer
https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1256015582689988610?s=20

My pet theory is that John Bolton is a 19th century Prussian Junker who got cast into the future Samurai Jack style. Dude wants to go to war with everybody, all the time.

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Algund Eenboom posted:

They have an xtremely ramshackle website that doesn't even fit on the screen properly https://www.silvercorpusa.com/ "We also offer consultation and to local and state law enforcement. Our Agents have advised some of the most prolific units on the planet to include Delta Force, Israeli Duvdevan, German KSK, Polish Grom, Italian Col Moskin, British SAS, and French GIGN." lol
https://twitter.com/gianfiorella/status/1257352864898469888
https://twitter.com/gianfiorella/status/1257385298453037058

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