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One of the more compelling sideshows currently running on our national midway is the failed attempt by a claque of American freebooters to facilitate regime change in Venezuela. Their effort to oust President Nicolas Maduro failed utterly. The U.S. government, such as it is these days, has denied any involvement in the scheme. The brings us the essential tick-tock on these events, and the people involved in them, who never will be confused with Simon Bolivar, but who did bring us back briefly to the days when piratical American adventurers played mumbledy-peg with emerging Central and South American nations. (The lasting historical impact of these activities is that they gave to our language the word, “filibuster,” from a Dutch word for “freebooter.” Originally, it meant fortune-seekers who went abroad to steal other countries. Of course, it has come down to us, laundered through parliamentary procedure, to mean attempts by Mitch McConnell to steal this one.)Anyway, embedded in the Post's reporting is this little item.His committee’s mission was to investigate scenarios for achieving regime change. Members researched pedestrian options, such as ratcheting up international pressure against the government. But they also studied the possibility of effectively kidnapping Maduro and his close associates. The effort involved speaking to more than a dozen attorneys about the legalities of such a mission, Rendón said. They looked at the “universal enemy” argument — once used to prosecute pirates — that formed the basis of some Nazi renditions after World War II. They compiled a dossier on the failed Bay of Pigs attempt to liberate Cuba from the government of Fidel Castro.I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of accounts of the Bay of Pigs operation since 1962 that did not also contain the word, "fiasco." Why someone in 2020 would "compile a dossier" on a disastrous attempt to invade Cuba as part of the preparation for a commando raid into Venezuela is best left to broader thinkers than I am. What is there to study about the Bay of Pigs? What is the ultimate lesson? "Don’t lose"? The rest of the Post’s account reads like a Graham Greene novel if Greene worked for McKinsey. Maduro isn’t a bowl of buttercups, but outsourcing foreign policy has a godawful history in this republic.Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has his three children.This content is imported from OpenWeb. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.&nbsp;Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below

One of the more compelling sideshows currently running on our national midway is the failed attempt by a claque of American freebooters to facilitate regime change in Venezuela. Their effort to oust President Nicolas Maduro failed utterly. The U.S. government, such as it is these days, has denied any involvement in the scheme. The brings us the essential tick-tock on these events, and the people involved in them, who never will be confused with Simon Bolivar, but who did bring us back briefly to the days when piratical American adventurers played mumbledy-peg with emerging Central and South...

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Charles P. Pierce is a writer-at-large for Esquire and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times Magazine, the Nation, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated and The Chicago Tribune, among others.

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