{"id":103535,"date":"2020-08-09T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103535"},"modified":"2020-08-09T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T17:17:19","slug":"two-former-green-berets-sentenced-to-20-years-for-venezuelan-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103535","title":{"rendered":"Two former Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuelan raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84672\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/If-Maduro-had-a-daughter-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/If-Maduro-had-a-daughter-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/If-Maduro-had-a-daughter-467x333.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/If-Maduro-had-a-daughter.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If Maduro had a daughter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>thebesig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted about these two<\/a> back when they were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Airan Berry, 42, and Luke Denman, 34, both former US Army Special Forces veterans with eight deployments to OIF\/OEF between them, have now been sentenced to 20 years by a Venezuelan court.<\/p>\n<p>Last May they were caught by Venezuelan authorities in a botched raid to oust Maduro (nominally the President of the country, but not recognized as such by the US). Authorities there said they have confessed to &#8220;having committed the crimes of conspiracy, association, illicit trafficking of weapons of war and terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were working for a private military contractor out of Florida. They were training ex-military and ex-police Venezuelan defectors in Columbia at the time of their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are underway to secure their release, and the release of several oil executives also imprisoned in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Source;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/venezuela-court-sentences-former-green-berets-over-failed-anti-maduro-mission\/2020\/08\/08\/c49fdf3e-d971-11ea-a788-2ce86ce81129_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thebesig posted about these two back when they were arrested. Airan Berry, 42, and Luke Denman, &hellip; <a title=\"Two former Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuelan raid\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103535\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two former Green Berets sentenced to 20 years for Venezuelan raid<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103538,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103535\/revisions\/103538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}