Mercenaries ready to intervene in Venezuela | B …

As if US interference, the proclamations of Juan Guaidó's coup d'état and the so-called Operation Libertad, a reputed mercenary company, have emerged as a possible actor of the Venezuelan crisis. She is the disciple of Blackwater, the same who committed dozens of murders during the war in Iraq. A Reuters article gives details of the company's intention to train an irregular force of four or five thousand fighters to support the coup d'etat against President Nicolás Maduro. The information attributed to Erik Prince, the founder of this company intended to kill, search for money – about 40 million – to finance his military adventure. To this end, according to the British agency, the businessman, former sailor and contributor to the electoral campaign of Donald Trump, meets since April the Venezuelan billionaires in exile and the supporters of the tycoon who governs the United States.

Prince is a leafy actor. The postmodern buccaneer is reminiscent of the character of the film Walker starring Ed Harris, a nineteenth-century mercenary invading Nicaragua. Although the ongoing operation created by this CIA provider for Venezuela seems difficult to materialize, it should not be underestimated. His Blackwater received serious accusations when he intervened in Iraq. The main one occurred in 2007 when his hired thugs killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square. Several employees of the company were convicted of homicide.

Based on four different sources, the US Society Survey cites Lital Leshem, a security and intelligence specialist with the Hong Kong-based Frontier Resource Group, who has commercial ties with Blackwater. He confirmed Prince's interest in getting involved in the country with the largest oil reserves in the world. "It has a solution for Venezuela, just as it has a solution for many other places," said Leshem. However, the spokesman for Blackwater's creator, Marc Cohen, said that he "does not plan to operate or implement an operation in Venezuela."

The agency also consulted Trump's special badistant for strategic communications, Garrett Marquis, who declined to say whether Prince had updated the US government. of his goal of forming a mercenary force. The same thing would be included in "Peruvians, Ecuadorians, Colombians and Spaniards," said an informant who claimed that these nationalities would, according to the vision of the creator of Blackwater, "more politically acceptable than American entrepreneurs".

Prince's proximity to the US government stems from his contribution to the Trump campaign, to which he donated $ 100,000. The Republican Party is also one of its beneficiaries. But there is another fact that connects him. His sister Betsy DeVos is the education secretary of the current US government. Millionaire and historical contributor to the Republicans who were very much in demand for the position appointed by the President in February 2017. To the point that Senate Deputy Speaker Mike Pence had to tie the vote for his appointment. The head of the upper house Democratic minority, Chuck Schumer, said that DeVos was "one of the worst candidates to have been selected for this post".

His brother Prince earned a lot of money when their mother sold the autoparts company founded by his father. He then bought a few acres in a Virginia marsh where he settled Blackwater and began his career in the private armies industry. For Venezuela, the ideologue of mercenary intervention has devised the thesis of "the dynamic effect," says Reuters. He wants to break the stalemate in the conflict that existed until last Tuesday, when Guaidó launched his proclamation of descent into the streets of Caracas against the government, as a result of a distributor's 39; motorways. A current coup that the mercenary company believes can lend a helping hand.

Prince sold the company in 2010 and founded a second company, named Blackwater USA, specializing in the sale of ammunition, silencers and knives. He kept the name but changed it later for the Academi. He moved to the United Arab Emirates, where he set up the country's intelligence apparatus and continues his private wars in the service of the highest bidder. Yemen is one of its victims. It was also denounced by the former Prime Minister of Qatar, Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, who accused him of preparing a mercenary invasion of Qatari territory.

His background as an entrepreneur for the CIA and the US State Department. explain the validity of Prince, who has expanded his activities around the world. In 2014, he became CEO of Frontier Services Group – a cargo he currently occupies according to the Linkedin Network – based in Hong Kong. This group is linked to Chinese state-owned investment company Citic, which could be the gateway to continuing to sell its meticulous security services and its armies on demand in a larger market. Venezuela is not his only goal, but it allowed him to talk about his former creation, Blackwater, in this part of the world.

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