Miami Herald: Venezuela claims capture of CIA group, accuses U.S. of plotting 'false flag' attack

[TheProle]

https://archive.ph/lqPsQ#selection-1127.19-1127.110

The Nicolás Maduro regime said Sunday Venezuela has captured a group of alleged mercenaries with ties to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and accused Washington and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military exercises intended to provoke an armed confrontation in the Caribbean.

In a statement released by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the socialist government said the arrests revealed what it described as a “false-flag operation” planned from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory, “to generate a full-scale military confrontation” against Venezuela.

The regime’s announcement comes amid the fast-growing buildup of U.S. forces in the Caribbean launched by President Donald Trump to combat drug cartels. The administration has signaled that it might soon authorize ground incursions into Venezuela to target the so-called Cartel de los Soles, a narco-trafficking organization the U.S. claims is led by Maduro himself.

The Venezuelan government did not release any evidence or details about the alleged arrests, such as the number of suspects, their nationalities, or when and where they were detained.

[Stacey Grove]

1. America doing American shit

They've been trickfucking Latin America since . . . the Monroe administration?

I might be wrong.

Too lazy to look it up.

[rampartd]

2. there is an original meaning of "filibuster" that applies to "soldiers of fortune"

toppling latin american democracies for std fruit and such corporate overlords. yes, the monroe administration seems right for a starter.

[SamKnause]

3. I hope they did.

The U.S. has wanted to fuck up Venezuela for as long as I can remember.

[travelingthrulife]

5. They want that oil. Trump has always been a fan of invading countries to steal their resources.

See Iraq.

[Wounded Bear]

4. "If captured or caught, the Director will admit no knowledge of your existance" nt

[Chasstev365]

6. Like the U2 Spy plane incident: we'll deny until we see their faces

Although Trump would still deny it.

[DFW]

7. Instead of a Golf on Tonkin resolution, Trump wats a Gulf of Maracaibo resolution

I don't think he'll get it.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Ha. I wonder if they're all righties

To agree to go on this mission. Didn’t help them that Trump advertised there was going to be covert activity.

[ms liberty]

9. Well, some dumbass told them he was doing it. All they had to do was look for the culprits.

[surfered]

10. If they are CIA, I hope they weren't exposed by Trump's loose lips or Hegseth's leaking on Signal.

[maxsolomon]

11. All Authoritarian Governments lie like they breathe. Naturally.

Just because Venezuela is in Trump's crosshairs does not mean I buy this "mercenaries with ties to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency" story.

It's plausible, that's about the best I can say.

[BlueTsunami2018]

12. We've been doing that forever.

Any time a socialist country tries to make things better for their people, the U.S. is right there to sabotage, sanction, embargo, arm right wing death squads, blockade, fix elections or do anything to assure the effort fails.

Then they’ll turn around and say “See! It can’t ever work.”

Of course it can’t work if you do everything to make sure it doesn’t. We can’t have Americans seeing a better way. Can’t shut off that money spigot going to the rulers.

Scumbags.

[EX500rider]

13. Except Chavez & Maduro have managed to wreck Venz.s economy & caused 25% of the people to flee to other countries

And they ruined it way before any sanctions: