Attack on naval patrol boat Naiguata; US troops at Venezuela border

PODCAST

An interview by Justin Podur with Maria Victor and Joe Emersberger in which they discuss the attack on a naval patrol boat (the Naiguata) off the coast of Venezuela and the landing and subsequent positioning of US troops at the Venezuela-Colombia border.

By Justin Podur

Published on the author’s own website, Apr 5, 2020
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Click here to listen to The Anti-Empire Project Episode 42: US troops on the Venezuelan border

We recorded quickly to react to the attack on a naval patrol boat (the Naiguata) off the coast of Venezuela and the positioning of US troops at the Venezuela-Colombia border.

Venezuela’s Armed Forces has released audio of the exchange between its Navy and a Portuguese ship which sailed into its waters w/o authorization & failed to comply with orders before ramming into the Venezuelan ship & capsizing it

Courtesy: @ArmadaFANB pic.twitter.com/Hz0aH3RieE

— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) April 4, 2020

Here is video of the Colombian helicopters dropping off the US troops on the Venezuelan border

Are they planning a Bay of Pigs style operation?

Whatever they’re doing is an obvious threat of war against Venezuela. This is criminal rogue regime aggressionhttps://t.co/VEBL63p3C8

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 4, 2020