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| Erik Prince |
Looking for a chance to make
a buck for the bang?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Erik Prince - the founder of the controversial
private security firm Blackwater and a prominent supporter of U.S.
President Donald Trump - has been pushing a plan to deploy a private
army to help topple Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro,
four sources with knowledge of the effort told Reuters.
Over the last several months, the sources said, Prince has sought
investment and political support for such an operation from influential
Trump supporters and wealthy Venezuelan exiles. In private meetings in
the United States and Europe, Prince sketched out a plan to field up to
5,000 soldiers-for-hire on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan
Guaido, according to two sources with direct knowledge of Prince’s
pitch....
For Prince, the unlikely gambit represents the latest effort in a long
campaign to privatize warfare. The wealthy son of an auto-parts tycoon
has fielded private security contractors in conflict zones from Central
Asia to Africa to the Middle East.
What a disastrous idea. What’s next giving them access to biological weapons?
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