mozz , 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

For the uninitiated: the TL;DR version is that a bunch of these “we’re gonna go rescue Eagle Pass from the immigrants” idiots all got in a boat and tried to go down and coup Maduro, who has a whole military and security services instead of thinking that his high score on Warthunder would equip him with success or whatever was in the coup people’s minds. They made it like 10 feet off the beach and were instantly arrested by actual defensive forces (police I think) and eventually ejected from the country.

No governmental body was involved in any capacity; the US government also likes to do coups against Venezuela, including the OG one against Chávez which actually went about equally well as this one and resolved in hilarious fashion. But this wasn’t one of those.