Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro shows video of imprisoned American who says the mission of a failed raid was to oust him and bring him to the U.S.
Luke Alexander Denman, an American, was hired to lead a ragtag group of insurgents to seize the Caracas airport, overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and fly him to the U.S., the imprisoned Iraq war veteran explained in a video released by Venezuela Wednesday.
Instead, Mr. Denman, 34, from Austin, Texas, and another American, Airan Berry, 42, who has addresses in Florida and Texas, were among the 13 “terrorists” whom the Venezuelan government said were captured in a thwarted weekend incursion.
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