Eldorado Posted July 30, 2020 #1 Share Posted July 30, 2020 "On Sunday 3 May, the government of Nicolas Maduro announced Venezuela's armed forces had repelled an armed incursion. "Operation Gideon was a deeply flawed coup attempt. But what would compel exiled Venezuelans and former US Special Forces soldiers to join a plan that, from the outset, looked like a suicide mission? "It is a story that leaps straight out of a 20th Century playbook of Latin American conspiracies. ""It made the Bay of Pigs look like D-Day," quipped one commentator, referring to the failed US-financed invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1961. Operation Gideon is a staggering tale of hubris, incompetence and treachery." Full story at the BBC: Link Operation Gideon (2020): Link 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted July 30, 2020 #2 Share Posted July 30, 2020 This was hilarious. Jordan thought he was Simon Mann. ....and forgot what happened to him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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