CARACAS: Venezuela would try two Americans captured during a failed bid by mercenaries to invade the country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), as the United States vowed to “use every tool available” to bring them home. Venezuela announced Monday that it had arrested the two former US Special Forces soldiers on suspicion of trying to topple Maduro in an operation supported by the US-backed opposition. “They are convicts, confessed, caught red-handed and are being judged by the republic’s attorney general, by Venezuela’s civil courts, and the process will be full of guarantees and fair,” said Maduro. The US army has confirmed they were former members of the Green Berets, who were deployed to Iraq. “They have confessed their guilt, they broke international law, they broke Venezuelan law,” Maduro said.

Source: Manila Times May 07, 2020 16:07 UTC