BILLY CORBEN, JEN GATIEN | USA | 2024 | 103 MIN | ENGLISH, SPANISH
When a group of American-trained operatives unsuccessfully attempted to invade Venezuela by boat in 2020 with plans to topple the regime of Nicolás Maduro, the ensuing fallout raised a number of questions: who were these men, whose orders were they following, and how did their coup go so fantastically wrong? In this gripping investigation, Jen Gatien and Cocaine Cowboys director Billy Corben home in on the man at the center of the doomed plot: former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, whose winding path from decorated military service to the shadowy world of private mercenary work eventually puts him in contact with both Venezuelan dissidents and members of the Trump administration. Unspooling a tale of confused patriotism, geopolitical intrigue, and mind-boggling incompetence, Gatien and Corben track every step of Goudreau and his co-conspirators’ ill-fated mission. What emerges is a memorable portrait of Trump-era hubris and folly, as well as an incisive and often disquieting psychological portrait of a particular brand of self-styled American hero teetering dangerously on the brink of madness.
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