Leaked documents reveal Macri’s Argentina considered invading Venezuela together with the US
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri would have worked out plans with the U.S. administration of Donald Trump to invade Venezuela on three fronts, revealed the transandine portal El Cohete, which published screenshots of intelligence documents.
A series of secret documents released this Sunday would reveal a commitment by former Argentine President Mauricio Macri to involve Argentine forces in a possible military intervention promoted by the U.S. administration of Donald Trump against Venezuela.
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The documents come from the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Argentine Armed Forces and envision the deployment of Argentine military personnel who would be at the service of U.S. forces, reports the leftist Argentine news portal El Cohete a la Luna.
The invasion plan would be carried out through three corridors: Marítimo del Mar de Argos, northern front of the Caribbean Sea; the Por la Frontera Febo corridor, which would correspond to a land incursion from Colombia; and the third Por la Frontera de Ceres corridor, an attack from Brazil.
The plan took the form of maneuvers between April and July 2019, called Exercise Puma, under the command of General Juan Martin Paleo, who is now Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Argentine Armed Forces.
At the time, the exercise coincided with the recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela by the United States and Argentina and with the military uprising called Operation Liberty that began on April 30.
The military uprising freed opposition politician Leopoldo López from house arrest and took him to a military base where they waited for statements from other units.
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