Within hours of being stopped on a rural road in Venezuela, former U.S. Marine Matthew Heath told a court Monday, he found himself naked and strapped to a wire mesh connected to a car battery that would shock him between questions from officers of the country’s military counterintelligence. A few hours later, at a different location, he was threatened with being raped with a nightstick if he did not give them the password to his satellite phone. BY Antonio María Delgado. Full Text -> MiamiHerald

Traducción de cortesía ->A las pocas horas de ser detenido en un camino rural en Venezuela, el exmarine estadounidense Matthew Heath dijo ante un tribunal el lunes que se encontró desnudo y atado a una malla de alambre conectada a una batería de automóvil que lo electrocutaba entre preguntas de oficiales de la contrainteligencia militar del país. . Unas horas más tarde, en otro lugar, lo amenazaron con violarlo con una porra si no les daba la contraseña de su teléfono satelital. Traducción al español -> Google Translación

More than four dozen men who set out in motorboats on the first day of May from Colombia as part of a botched coup known as Operation Gideon, a doomed attempt at ousting Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, were betrayed by five companions who sold the exact landing coordinates shortly before departure, says a high-ranking insurgent. By Antonio Maria Delgado, Kevin G. Hall and Shirsho Dasgupta. Full Text ->

On Sunday 3 May, the government of Nicolas Maduro announced Venezuela’s armed forces had repelled an armed incursion. Operation Gideon was a deeply flawed coup attempt. But what would compel exiled Venezuelans and former US Special Forces soldiers to join a plan that, from the outset, looked like a suicide mission? By Linda Pressly. Full Text-> BBCNews