Jordan Goudreau, a former U.S. Green Beret involved in a failed 2020 armed incursion into Venezuela, has alleged that the CIA created the so-called "Cartel de los Soles" in the 1990s and later used it to justify U.S. policies against successive Venezuelan governments.
In an interview with journalist Max Blumenthal for The Grayzone, the ex–special operations contractor said the network attributed to Venezuelan military figures was "a CIA construction" that predates the presidency of Hugo Chávez.
