Plotting a Violent Coup on Venezuela
Erik Prince has been vocal about his willingness to violently overthrow Nicolás Maduro and is now recruiting U.S. Senators in that effort
Erik Prince is most known for his company Blackwater which committed myriad war crimes in Iraq. Several of his mercenaries were convicted of murder for their actions in the Nisour Square Massacre and later pardoned by former president Donald Trump. The Iraqi government revoked Blackwater’s license to operate in Iraq in 2007 but the U.S. allowed the company to continue its operations until 2009.
Prince is often referred to as a war criminal and is used by the United States because they can allow him to break the rules of war. The U.S. does not care about international law or the sovereignty of nations or nonwhite people in select countries as has been made abundantly clear since Israel began its slaughter of Palestinians.
This makes Prince and his company — which now operates under the name Academi — the perfect candidate for the U.S. in interventions and to violate international law. His efforts to coordinate a coup in Venezuela also seem to violate U.S. law under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000 and no law enforcement agency has intervened as of this writing.