Tag: Oscar Perez Venezuela

• Thursday, August 16th 2018 - 10:09 UTC

  Opposition leader claims “fractures” within the Venezuela Armed Forces

  

  An exiled opposition leader accused by Venezuelan authorities of directing a failed plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro says the greatest threat to the embattled socialist leader may be his detractors in uniform standing quietly behind him.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 19:56 UTC

  “Operación Genesis” calls to rebellion of military and police forces

  

  “Venezuela: God and Christ gave us the victory. Lets go to the streets to take our freedom” says Oscar Pérez, an ex-inspector of the CICPC, the national police force in a new video diffused by himself with a group of rebellious officials. In the video he calls on the population and the national security agencies to join them in the fight and rebel against the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 09:17 UTC

  Passports of 130 Venezuelan children deemed void - no Xmas family gathering for them

  

  The Venezuelan government, through the first prosecutor of Vargas state and officers of the Autonomic Service of Identification, Migration and Foreign Affairs prevented the leaving of 130 children for Peru, where they were to meet with their parents last December 15.

• Friday, July 14th 2017 - 07:09 UTC

  Rogue Venezuelan police pilot emerges in political rally and calls for protests to continue

  

  A rogue Venezuelan police pilot wanted for dropping grenades and shooting at government buildings appeared briefly at an opposition vigil on Thursday night in a surreal twist to the crisis-worn country’s political drama.

• Thursday, June 29th 2017 - 01:41 UTC

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

  

  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.