A couple of Americans in something like 200 other mercenaries actually thought they were going to overthrow the government?!
Led from afar by a Canadian-born Green Beret who boasts of several medals and who was at one point in trouble with the military for a $62,000 discrepancy- a guy with a French name and a company in Florida that has a name SilvercorpUSA, similar to that of a Chinese mining company named Silvercorp... and who reportedly was in on it with a guy currently who turned himself in and is sitting in a US Prison on narcotics smuggling charges.
Nah - they thought they would make a lot of money for scratching the itch that says they gotta go try to kill something because when they were active duty, they found they liked it....and the itch kept returning...