How (Not) To Plan Coup in Venezuela

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Bellingcat’s Giancarlo Fiorella is here to walk us through what may go down in history as the dumbest attempted coup of all time. On May 3, American mercenaries and Venezuelan exiles attempted to enter the country with the goal of overthrowing the Maduro regime. It didn’t go well.

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With us today Giancarlo Fiorella. Fiorella is an investigator and journalist who’s been covering the story at Bellingcat. His May 5th and May 7th articles at Bellingcat demand to be read if you want to understand the weird comedy of errors playing out in Venezuela right now.

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0:24.0	In the Associated Press article, there's an interview with somebody who went to one of these training camps to train the soldiers there. And their description of the camp of the camps are like very dire.
0:27.6	You know, there's like no running water or like the soldiers like didn't have any food or equipment and it just doesn't I mean it paints a
0:35.0	picture of like a really you know terrible place to be these camps right and not the sort of
0:41.1	place where you're training a force and elite force that will topple a government. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the
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1:18.6	This week listeners how not to plan a coup in Venezuela. On May 3rd, American mercenaries
1:25.5	and Venezuelan expatriates attempted to enter the country with a goal of
1:29.8	overthrowing the Maduro regime. It didn't go well.
1:33.7	With us today is Jean Carlo Fiorella.
1:35.9	Fiorella is an investigator and journalist
1:37.9	who's been covering the story at Bellingat.
1:40.4	His May 5th and 7th articles at Bellingcat demand to be read if you want to understand the weird comedy of errors that is currently playing out in Venezuela right now.
1:49.5	Jean-Carlow, thank you so much for joining us.
1:54.0	Hi, thanks for having me. Okay, let's, I mean, I don't even know where to start, really.
1:58.0	I'll just, okay, what is Operation Gideon?
2:02.0	Sure, yeah.
2:04.0	So Operation Gideon is an attempt by a group of ex-patate Venezuelan soldiers as well as members of a US company
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