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A/74/861–S/2020/399 General Assembly Security Council United Nations A/74/861–S/2020/399 General Assembly Distr.: General 22 May 2020 Security Council English Original: Spanish General Assembly Security Council Seventy-fourth session Seventy-fifth year Agenda item 31 (a) Prevention of armed conflict Identical letters dated 13 May 2020 from the Permanent Representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council I have the honour to inform you that, between 3 and 4 May 2020, armed groups of mercenaries and terrorists organized, trained, financed and protected by the Governments of the Republic of Colombia and the United States of America entered Venezuelan territory illegally with the stated aim of perpetrating criminal acts against our people, carrying out targeted assassinations of senior officials of my Government, and ultimately, after assassinating President Nicolás Maduro Moros and destroying the system of freedoms and rights of our independent and sovereign nation, imposing a violent regime of colonial plunder unprecedented in our history. The criminals who entered our national territory came from Colombia. One of the assault teams landed in the state of La Guaira, where the country’s main airport is located, just 20 kilometres from the Venezuelan capital. However, “Operation Gideon”, as it was called by the mercenaries and terrorists, was thwarted by the Venezuelan authorities. The action of neighbouring communities in the areas infiltrated by the attackers, in coordination with the law enforcement authorities, led to the capture of most of this group of mercenaries and terrorists. This occurred following the identification of two boats in which at least 60 criminals arrived to execute their plan with large quantities of high-calibre lethal weapons in their possession. The Office of the Prosecutor General has confirmed the arrest of 47 people to date, while as many have arrest warrants for their participation in the operation aimed at flooding our country with violence and pain. This is a crime against humanity committed under aggravating circumstances because, as a military advantage, the presence of a deadly pandemic affecting all of humanity – the biggest in 100 years – was used as a military advantage. It is terrorism to take advantage of an extraordinary humanitarian circumstance that requires our national authorities to pay full attention to preserving the lives of our people. Furthermore, in their search for mercenaries and terrorists in the southern region of the country, the Venezuelan governmental authorities found another batch of 20-07026 (E) 090620 110620 *2007026* A/74/861 S/2020/399 military weapons. We must therefore report that, on 9 May 2020, three military speedboats of the Colombian navy were found on the banks of the Orinoco River, in the state of Bolivar, armed with two .50 calibre machine guns and four M60 machine guns.1 All the weapons were supplied with thousands of rounds of ammunition: sufficient to sustain a large-scale armed attack (see annex I). The operations to track and capture the crew members of these boats are in full swing, since we know of the existence of another group of mercenaries and terrorists; in this case, the group is tasked with attacking the southern border, as announced by United States citizen Jordan Goudreau in a video issued on the same day the operation began.2,3 Today, the involvement of an extremist sector of the Venezuelan opposition has already been confirmed by the international media, after a contract signed on 16 October 2019 between deputy Juan Guaidó, head of the violent sector of the Venezuelan opposition, and United States citizen Jordan Goudreau came to light.4 The latter, who even presented evidence of having been a member of President Donald Trump’s personal security, was a member of the special forces of the United States army and is currently Chief Executive Officer of the private security contractor Silvercorp USA, which was entrusted with planning, training, equipping and executing the mercenary invasion against the Venezuelan people. To that end, it was agreed that deputy Juan Guaidó would pay 212.9 million dollars to Silvercorp USA using money from the accounts stolen from our nation by the Government of the United States of America and deposited in the banks of that country. It is also important to emphasize that additional forms of payment were established with our nation’s oil, once the crime had been perpetrated (see annexes II and III) 5. The contract in question, which is valid for 495 days from the time it was signed, declares as its purpose the “exit/removal of the current Venezuelan regime and entrance/installation of recognized Venezuelan Government”, through the “neutralization” of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and operations against the remnants of the “former regime”, to achieve the “installation” of deputy Juan Guaidó in the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The agreement also refers to the existence of private financing, through a “bridge loan” obtained from the contribution of capitalist entrepreneurs, who, as initial “investors”, would have a preferential status to obtain contracts with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela once the new government is installed. According to international media reports, a group of owners of large fortunes in the United States of America, with interests in Venezuela, discussed their capital contribution to the operation. Among them is United States citizen Roen Kraft, heir to a well-known multinational food-producing corporation.6 They all aspired to an initial profit of at least 55 per cent on their contribution to the financial fund of the operation, as stated in the contract of sale. The agreement itself is the express and formal manifestation of the violation of countless norms, not only the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, __________________ 1 Latitude coordinates 06°13'30"; longitude coordinates 67°25'13". The abbreviations of the boats are ARC-1823, ARC-1160 and ARC-1162. Boston Whaler model; .50 calibre machine gun serial numbers: 301575 and 334472; and M60 machine gun serial numbers: 90824, 91788, 89270 and 91246. 2 See www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=c-ZBsNbh1tM&feature=emb_logo. 3 See http://archive.vn/aDH9o. 4 See www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02mI21z0Sk. 5 Annex III can be reviewed via the following link: www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the- attachments-to-the-general-services-agreement-between-the-venezuelan-opposition-and- silvercorp/e67f401f-8730-4f66-af53-6a9549b88f94/. 6 See https://thedailyusnews.com/venezuela-claims-to-have-captured-two-american-mercenaries- involved-in-failed-invasion/. 2/36 20-07026 A/74/861 S/2020/399 but also international law and the conventions and treaties signed by my country. It is therefore an agreement for the application of large-scale violence against life and property, without any legal or moral considerations. The contract even provides for the use of “all necessary means available to complete the assigned tasks”, as well as the use of all types of conventional weapons, while exonerating the mercenaries and terrorists of the Silvercorp USA company from any responsibility for the consequences of their crimes. A contract for large-scale murder in which the killers are offered prior and absolute immunity is unprecedented. The terrorism is not limited to targeting senior State officials of Venezuela, since it is also directed against the civilian population in those clean-up operations considered essential to control power for the duration of the contract. It establishes the use of lethal force against civil disturbances and the use of weapons prohibited by international conventions and treaties such as, for example, the use of anti-personnel mines, as well as all kinds of organic and non-organic weapons, including chemical weapons. The contract thus gives a private company of the United States of America power over the life and death, freedoms, rights and property of the 30 million inhabitants of Venezuela. Allow me to inform you that among the mercenaries and terrorists detained in flagrante delicto are two United States citizens who are former members of the special forces of the United States army and have been identified as Luke Denman and Airan Berry. Both are linked to Jordan Goudreau, a member of President Donald Trump's personal security. Jordan Goudreau signed the aforementioned criminal contract as the Chief Executive Office of Silvercorp USA and appeared publicly on 3 May 2020 in the international media declaring himself the head of “Operation Gideon”, together with Venezuelan citizen Javier Nieto Quintero, Captain (retired) of the Bolivarian National Guard of Venezuela. The detained United States mercenaries and terrorists, who have already been brought before the courts by the Office of the Public Prosecutor, have confessed their role in the operation and have stated that their main mission was: (a) to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro Moros; (b) to take control of the two main airports of Venezuela; (c) to safeguard the landing of foreign aircraft in Venezuelan territory; and (d) to attack the General Directorate of Military Counter-Intelligence and the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service of Venezuela. They also stated that the training and logistics base to prepare the armed attack against our country and our people was located in Colombia, and that they had left that country when the military aggression began.7 There is also public and media information available confirming that United States citizen Jordan Goudreau did in fact provide personal security services to President Donald Trump in various political activities, at least during 2018, as shown in images available on his own social networks (see annex IV). Similarly, Jordan Goudreau kept United States citizen Keith Schiller8 informed of his plans and actions prior to 3 May 2020. For more than 16 years, Mr. Schiller has provided personal security for President Donal Trump and, as a private businessman and owner of the United States security company KS Global Group, he now provides security for public events of the Republican Party of the United States of America.
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