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This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Han Rahan.

Today we're speaking to John Carlo Fiorella again friend of popular front he's been on a few times

he's very knowledgeable when it comes to Venezuela and he's going to be speaking about

this absolutely batsh in sane situation that has happened over the last couple of days

where a US mercenary firm has tried to lead an incursion into Venezuela with the aim of overthrowing the Maduro regime,

but actually they have completely fucked it up. It's been an absolute disaster and everybody's been caught including two former green beres who are now in the hands of the

Venezuelan authorities. If you like Popular Front, please consider subscribing at Patreonreon.com slash popular front.

There's been this mental situation in Venezuela from what I can gather from the little bit of reading I've done on it over the last like 12 hours,

there's been like US mercenary raid on Venezuela, meaning with you know with the aim of

Overthrow Maduro Maduro everyone's got captured it's all gone wrong like I guess start at the beginning if you can what the fuck is going on. Yeah so I've spent a lot of time over the last couple days trying to think about how to build like a narrative around this that makes sense as a story and so I think just as a

heads up like I think we're going to get to the end of this and it's not going to make any sense but

that's not that's not all my fault it's just such an

absurd and crazy story that's that's unfolded over the last couple of days so I

think maybe the best place to start is last year actually.

So you remember that last year there was an attempt, a very highly publicized attempt by

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