Tag: mercenaries

• Thursday, July 15th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Colleague of Colombian squad involved in killing of Haiti president says his friends were tricked into it

  

  Former Colombian serviceman who was to be among the commandos involved in the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse a week ago has claimed they were not “mercenaries.”

• Wednesday, May 13th 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  US Congress demands Trump explain the botched “invasion” of Venezuela with two US citizens arrested

  

  The head of a US congressional committee said on Tuesday he was asking President Donald Trump's administration for explanations over a mysterious botched “invasion” of Venezuela in which two Americans were arrested.

• Friday, May 8th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Washington Post exposes links between US company and Venezuela opposition plot to capture and oust Maduro

  

  Members of Venezuela’s opposition in October negotiated a US$ 213 million deal with a small Florida security company to invade the country and overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, according to a document published by the Washington Post on Thursday.

• Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 13:11 UTC

  Venezuela television shows a captured US “terrorist” as part of a plot to oust Maduro

  

  Venezuelan state television broadcast on Wednesday a video of captured American Luke Denman, in which he said he was instructed to seize control of Caracas' airport and bring in a plane to fly President Nicolas Maduro to the United States.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2020 - 09:47 UTC

  Trump denies any US involvement in an alleged failed armed incursion in Venezuela

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied any involvement by the US government in what Venezuelan officials have called a failed armed incursion in the South American country that led to the capture of two American “mercenaries”.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  Venezuela releases US citizen arrested in 2014

  

  A U.S. citizen arrested in Venezuela in 2014 on weapons trafficking and attempted murder charges his family called “trumped-up” was released this week, his family said in a statement on Friday. Todd Leininger, 37, was arrested in western Tachira state where he and his Venezuelan wife were visiting his sister-in-law.