Two Americans who were part of an apparent coup attempt in Venezuela may have brought an Airsoft gun to overthrow Maduro
Venezuelan authorities patrol where the alleged attack took place outside Caracas. Photo: Rayner Pena/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock First there was “stupid Watergate,” such an evocative phrase that it was applied both to the Trump camp’s entanglements with Russia and the president’s attempts to leverage aid in Ukraine that eventually led to impeachment.
They tweeted about the raid while it was in process It should go without saying that if you’re involved in an alleged attempt to overthrow a government already prepared for interference from a well-funded opposition leader, you should keep it offline. But Silvercorp, the private contractor employing the pair of mercenaries, tweeted about the operation on Sunday while it was still in motion:
While the failed raid provided a rare news break from the coronavirus pandemic, the mercenaries’ social media accounts brought a much-needed dose of schadenfreude for critics of the outsourced military-industrial complex, or anyone wishing to see what a bunch of fumbling mercenaries eating hamburgers looks like.
Denman and Berry apparently brought an Airsoft gun on the raid As any friend of a kid who lived in the woods knows, Airsoft guns hurt. But they would not be effective weapons for a group of 62 to overthrow a president leading a standing army of over 340,000. According to the investigative site Bellingcat, the cache of weapons that Venezuelan authorities seized from the Americans contained an Airsoft rifle, which are reserved in military settings for training, as they cannot kill a person.
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