U.S. Mercenaries Captured in Venezuela After Failed Coup Attempt Compared to a "Bad Rambo Movie"
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#533Z6)
We look at an incredible story unfolding in Venezuela of a failed coup attempt. Did a former Green Beret mastermind it? Two Americans have been arrested in Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro claims the U.S. was behind the plot. It looks like a bad Rambo movie, or a really bad telenovela," says Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela." He notes that the U.S. is seeking regime change ... and the consequences for Venezuela could be very dire going forward."