Mystery police helicopter pilot jumps into the limelight in Venezuela... and vanishes

Thursday, June 29th 2017 - 01:41 UTC

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It is still unclear whether Oscar Perez is either a revolutionary officer standing up against Nicolás Maduro's régime or part of a government-sponsored montage as he drops grenades onto the Supreme Court building from his hijacked helicopter and makes video announcements that he and his fellow “nationalist” men will defend their country. Read full article

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Marti Llazo
“...or part of a government-sponsored montage...”

Doch. Sounds like another MercoPiss translation problem.

MercoPiss writers probably don't know that English “montage” and Spanish “montaje” aren't the same in this context (though in speaking of cinema they could be). But for this context they are false cognates. A montaje here is a farce, a “staged event,” a false-flag operation. That's probably what they meant. Deutsche Welle used the term: “Asalto de helicóptero en Venezuela: ¿Ataque real o montaje?”
Jun 29th, 2017 - 03:17 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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imoyaro
That's what I said in another thread here when it happened, a False Flag Operation. Just what they need for an all out attack on the Opposition.
Jun 29th, 2017 - 05:03 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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Capt Rockhopper
Mmmm this will be interesting to watch develop, I wonder if Maduro has studied Erdogan's little games and his staged coup.
Jun 29th, 2017 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
Erdogan is just a tad more competent than Maduro, don't you think?

I wonder if Venezuela's air defence system is any better maintained than its oil infrastructure?
Jun 29th, 2017 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ElaineB
@ Imoyaro

You did say it was a False Flag operation and it seems a lot of the world's press agree with you. So typical of a bully adopting a victim pose.
Jun 29th, 2017 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marti Llazo
The whole discussion surrounding “city's air defence system” is rubbish. The VZ air defence system is focused on frontier intrusions. As of the 1990s the radars in VZ had imaging profiles that identified their own as their own right down to the model of the helo. VZ's own aircraft are equipped with transponders that squawk “friendly” when challenged by their IFF. Does anyone really think that police helicopter operations are seen as bandits to radar/IFF? Or that an apparently well-informed pilot doesn't know how to fly NOE to avoid interdiction if that might be desired, assuming any interdiction capability exists? Get serious.
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