“It has nothing to do with our government,” President Donald Trump told reporters.
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Venezuelan soldiers wearing face masks surround a suspect moved from a helicopter after what Venezuelan authorities described was a"mercenary incursion."the coup plot in Bogotá, courting support from Colombia’s National Intelligence Directorate and claiming Goudreau was a former CIA agent. This prompted Colombian authorities to check with the CIA about Goudreau, who said he was never an agent.
But Goudeau’s team apparently pressed on anyway. When the AP asked why his team risked the Sunday raid on a heavily-armed port city, hehe was following the example of Alexander the Great and striking “deep into the heart of the enemy.” He told the AP he last communicated with Denman and Berry when they were still offshore after the first boat landed on Sunday, running low on fuel and heading to the island of Aruba to try to refuel.
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