From a Miami condo to the Venezuelan coast, how a plan to 'capture' Maduro went rogue
Source: Washington Post
By Anthony Faiola, Karen DeYoung and Ana Vanessa Herrero
May 6, 2020 at 7:34 p.m. EDT
Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch. They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to explore all options in their U.S.-backed quest to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. On that afternoon on the shores of Biscayne Bay last September, a former U.S. Army Green Beret presented them with an answer.
Operation Resolution.
Jordan Goudreau, a 43-year-old Special Forces veteran who ran a strategic-security firm on the Florida Space Coast, laid out a plan that could double as a screenplay for an episode of “Jack Ryan.” Goudreau claimed to have 800 men ready to penetrate Venezuela and “extract” Maduro and his henchmen, according to J.J. Rendón, the Venezuelan political strategist tapped by Guaidó to help lead the secretive committee.
Guaidó “was saying all options were on the table, and under the table,” Rendón told The Washington Post. “We were fulfilling that purpose.”
By October, the plan had advanced to the point of a signed agreement, contingent on funding and other conditions. Rendón calls it a trial balloon, a test of what Goudreau could do that was never officially greenlighted. But the language of the agreement left no ambiguity on the objective: “An operation to capture/detain/remove Nicolás Maduro . . . remove the current Regime and install the recognized Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó.”
But soon after the signing, Rendón said, Goudreau began acting erratically. He failed to produce evidence of the financial backing he claimed to have lined up to fund the operation, Rendón said, and demanded immediate payment of a $1.5 million retainer. There was no evidence of 800 men. Rendón transferred him $50,000 for “expenses” to buy more time, but the relationship between the two men quickly went south.
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to be his mouthpiece and right-hand man. He has done so many dirty things in Colombia over the years, a total snake.
Wikipedia:
Juan José Rendón Delgado (born 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela), known professionally as J.J Rendón, is a Latin American political consultant, psychologist, and political activist.[3][4] He frequently appears on TV and radio, particularly Latin American news programs. Rendón was recently appointed by Venezuelan president Juan Guaidó to be General Strategist of the Strategy Committee, a position he accepted ad honorem and ad hoc.[citation needed]
Rendón has been credited for the successful presidential campaigns of Juan Manuel Santos (first elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014), Porfirio Lobo Sosa (2010), and Enrique Peña Nieto (2012). In 2012, he was named one of the most prominent Latin American consultants by the U.S.-based publication Campaigns & Elections.[5] Rendon was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Political Consulting by Reed Latino. ABC International named him one of "The 10 Most Important Political Consultants in the World" along with James Carville, Karl Rove, and Mary Matalin.[6]
Rendón is the founder of the consulting firm J.J Rendón y Asociados Creatividad y Estrategia, Inc., and Get Real Films, the latter of which produced the documentary Here comes the Wolf. He is also a partner of V-me, the first Spanish broadcast television network in association with public television stations.
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa presidential campaign
Honduran politician and agricultural landowner Porfirio Lobo Sosa, known as Pepe Lobo, was elected president of Honduras in 2010, with Rendón as his political advisor. Rendón also was also consultant to Honduran politician Juan Orlando Hernández during his successful presidential campaign in 2012.
2012 Enrique Peña Nieto presidential campaign
In 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto was elected 57th President of Mexico. Rendón was his political advisor.
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In March 2016, Andrés Sepúlveda, who was serving 10 years in prison for charges such as use of malicious software, conspiracy to commit crime, violation of personal data, and espionage, claimed that most of his work in the past eight years had been on the payroll of Rendón.[71] Sepúlveda provided Bloomberg Businessweek with what he said were e-mails showing conversations between him, Rendón, and Rendón's consulting firm concerning hacking and the progress of campaign-related cyber attacks. Rendón denied using Sepúlveda for anything illegal, and categorically disputed Sepúlveda's account of their relationship.[72] Rendón filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg Businessweek, both in the United States and in Colombia, because of the story they ran.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ_Rend%C3%B3n
Find the sleazoid in this photo.
Porfirio Lobo, AKA Pepe Lobo, former President installed after the kidnapping and overthrow of elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Lobo and his son have been been connected to narcotrafficking, Alvaro Uribe, former Colombian president, deeply connected to narcotrafficking death squads in Colombia, also right-wing, of course.
Article from El Mundo:
'Lobo sees the left as a puppet and the right as very close to the left'
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Just as Juan José Rendón helped Juan Manuel Santos take over the presidency of Colombia, he was also the man behind Porfirio Lobo's victory in Honduras.
Rendón's arrival in Honduras did not raise the suspicions he generated in Colombia where they accused him of being the 'King of black propaganda' among other accusations. In Honduras things happened in a slower way. In this second installment, of a long interview, Rendón defends not only the victory of his candidate, but also explains why Lobo is not the visible head of a puppet government.
More:
https://www.elmundo.es/america/2010/07/16/noticias/1279237671.html
(Google translation)
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Nationalists diverted funds to pay political strategist JJ Rendón
TEGUCIGALPA.- With each new case of corruption that unfolds in our country, new traces of how political parties, especially the National Party, diverted public funds to finance political campaigns.
Even to pay internationally renowned political strategists like Venezuela's JJ Rendón, a critical element in Juan Orlando Hernández's victory in the elections.
A document obtained by the American journalist Jeff Ernst points against one of those involved in the Pandora case, Claudia Yamila Noriega, for having transferred a large sum of money to the controversial Venezuelan political strategist Juan José JJ Rendón, for the services rendered to the nationalist campaign , whose funds came from the theft of some 280 million lempiras from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG).
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The UFECIC affirms that this payment made to the South American strategist came from public funds, so that in the near future they could ask Rendón for explanations about the reception of capital that was drained from the Honduran State that ended up benefiting Hernández, who does not weigh any fiscal requirement, despite having extensive knowledge -and consenting- that the coffers be robbed to be placed in the José Cecilio del Valle palace.
The emergence of this role occurs in the framework of an expansion of the criminal case carried out yesterday by the anti-corruption chief Ana María Calderón, who reluctantly admitted that most of the money from the SAG went to the campaign commission of the National Party , whose visible head was the late Secretary of Communications Hilda Hernández, considered one of the brains that organized the crime.
According to the MACCIH, strong plots of corruption were found in the plot, ranging from the adulterated purchase of bread with sausages and mustard, to the rental of armored cars that were used to transport activists during the controversial 2013 presidential campaign.
Rendón, known for applying dirty warfare techniques against political opponents, has in recent years been at the center of several controversies regarding the receipt of money from activities related to organized crime; He was denounced by Colombian journalist Daniel Coronell, who assured that the strategist served as an intermediary in an offer to submit to Colombian justice by four major drug lords, where he would have been paid $ 12 million.
Likewise, the former secretary of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, Alex Cifuentes, assured his personal assistant Andrea Vélez Fernández, he had worked for a political consultant, JJ Rendón, hired by the campaign of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, who was able to receive up to $ 100 million as gifts for drug trafficking.
For his part, the drug dealer Javier Calle Serna, maintained that at the time he gave the Venezuelan about 12 million dollars.
http://elperiodico.hn/2019/09/25/nacionalistas-desviaron-fondos-para-pagar-al-estratega-politico-jj-rendon/
(Google translated)
Anyone who's watched Honduran politics has been aware that Juan Orlando Hernández, also former President of Honduras, was learned to be involved in narcotrafficking, as well, just like the President before him, Porfirio Lobo, and Lobo's son.
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Joaquín Guzmán Loera, JJ Rendón and Juan Orlando Hernández.
SAN PEDRO SULA, CORTÉS. In the continuation of the trial in New York against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the complaint that the Mexican drug trafficker paid the ex-president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto , a juicy sum of money, wasaired again.
On Tuesday in the continuation of the trial against El Chapo », Alex Cifuentes , de Guzmán's collaborator from 2007 to 2013 and now a witness against the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, reaffirmed his claim against Peña Nieto.
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"Sinister" character hired for "black campaigns"
The Leaf Litter, website of the Writers and Journalists Alliance (AEP), harshly criticized JJ in an article published in 2010.
The article points out JJ Rendón to plan "black" or "gray" campaigns. These, based on disinformation and slander.
According to La Hojarasca, it was for this reason that they "got a red card" in Venezuela and Mexico.
More:
https://tiempo.hn/juicio-de-el-chapo-jj-rendon-asesor-joh/
Google translated.
So very much more online for anyone who looks for it.