{"id":160845,"date":"2020-05-18T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=160845"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:21:48","slug":"venezuela-reveals-proof-of-guaidos-involvement-in-foiled-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/venezuela-reveals-proof-of-guaidos-involvement-in-foiled-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Reveals Proof of Guaid\u00f3\u2019s Involvement in Foiled Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">\n<blockquote><p><em>Five days before the raid, a Florida law firm representing Silvercorp USA sent a letter to Guaid\u00f3 to remind them that they owed an initial payment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" row clear\">\n<div id=\"attachment_161176\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/guaido-venezuela-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161176\" class=\"wp-image-161176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/guaido-venezuela-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/guaido-venezuela-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/guaido-venezuela-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guaido has resorted to denying everything despite physical evidence and testimonies from his own team.<br \/>| Photo: AFP<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"txt_newworld\">\n<p><em>17 May 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Venezuela\u2019s government revealed today more evidence that links lawmaker Juan Guaid\u00f3 with the foiled May 3 plot, aimed at killing President Nicolas Maduro through mercenaries hired by the firm<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Ex-US-Green-Beret-Behind-Failed-Terrorist-Plots-in-Venezuela-20200504-0015.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Silvercorp USA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite denying any involvement in the failed incursion, five days before the raid, Volk Law &#8211; a Florida law firm representing Silvercorp USA &#8211; sent a letter to Guaido and other members of the opposition to remind them that they owed an initial payment of US$1.5 million on an Oct. 16, 2019 contract that was \u201cpast due.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The April 28 letter reads that the \u201cadministration of Juan Guaido was supposed to pay Silvercorp USA,\u201d represented by former green beret Jordan Goudreau, the retainer fee within five days after the opposition lawmaker and a handful of allies signed the US$212.9 million contract for services \u201cbacked\/secured by Venezuelan barrels of oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Guaido, the letter is addressed to other signatories of the contract such as Juan Jose Rendon, Sergio Vergara, and Manuel Retureta. It was also forwarded to Carlos Vecchio and Fernando Blasi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cobrador?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Cobrador<\/a> El 28ABR el despacho legal Volk Law envi\u00f3 una notificaci\u00f3n de cobranza de la cantidad de 1,5 millones de d\u00f3lares pactada entre Guaid\u00f3 y Goudreau en el contrato de <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SilverCorpUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#SilverCorpUSA<\/a> firmado el 16OCT2019. Le recuerda que el plazo era de 5 d\u00edas. Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 la carta. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gc8tTCvSId\" >pic.twitter.com\/Gc8tTCvSId<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; La Tabla (@latablablog) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latablablog\/status\/1261321377006657537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >May 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>On April 28, Volk Law sent a collection notice for US$1.5 million agreed between Guaido and Goudreau in the Oct. 16, 2019, contract with Silvercorp USA. Here is the letter.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The former U.S. special forces went public arguing he only got US$50,000 through political consultant Juan Jose Rendon and the opposition kept promising to get him the rest but didn\u2019t deliver.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-based company hired by Guaido and his allies was meant to provide services, including \u201cstrategic planning,\u201d \u201cequipment procuring\u201d and \u201cproject execution advisement.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/US-Based-Advisers-From-Guaidos-Team-Quit-Over-Foiled-Coup-Plot-20200511-0014.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US-Based Advisers From Guaido\u2019s Team Quit Over Foiled Coup Plot<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. mercenary was allegedly responsible for training a contingent of 300 Venezuelan army deserters in three makeshift camps alongside the Colombian-Venezuelan border who were to enter Venezuela in a heavily armed caravan and seize the capital within 96 hours.<\/p>\n<p>These investigations and more than 90 arrests are now part of the unraveling of the so-called \u2018Operation Gedeon\u2019, which is lead by Goudreau.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Venezuela-Reveals-Proof-of-Guaidos-Involvement-in-Foiled-Plot-20200517-0008.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglish.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 May 2020 &#8211; Venezuela revealed today more links of lawmaker Juan Guaid\u00f3 with the foiled May 3 plot through mercenaries hired by Silvercorp USA. Five days before the raid, a Florida law firm representing Silvercorp sent a letter to Guaid\u00f3 to remind them that they owed an initial payment of US$1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":161176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[867,120,393,276,267,1764,1050,378,541,559,234,109,287,1961,249,70,557,126,172],"class_list":["post-160845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-anglo-america","tag-conflict","tag-coup","tag-democracy","tag-geopolitics","tag-guaido","tag-imperialism","tag-journalism","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-maduro","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-silvercorp-mercenaries","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","tag-violence","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}