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Related: About this forumOscar Perez, Venezuelan "hero" rogue cop, others were captured alive... then shot in head.
"Nobody shoots, this is a delivery": radio transmission from the Venezuelan police confirms that Óscar Pérez was captured aliveThe audio reveals that, between 11:15 and 11:32 on the morning of January 15, the rebel pilot and his group negotiated their surrender with the military man in charge of the capture. Two hours later, their corpses arrived at the Caracas morgue, all shot in the head.
(This report was prepared based on the inquiries made by journalists in Caracas who, for security reasons, can not sign it).
A radio transmission between the police forces of Venezuela that participated on the morning of January 15 in the operation of capture of the pilot Óscar Pérez and six of his companions confirms that the rebels were captured alive, after negotiating their delivery with the commander of the operation, the largest of the National Guard Rafael Bastardo.
However, two hours after these communications, Pérez and the six people accompanying him entered the morgue in Caracas. The cause of death of the seven was a shot in the head, according to the death certificates delivered to their families. Everything seems to indicate that they were executed when they were already surrendered.
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click on link below to hear radio transmission, in Spanish
https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/nadie-dispara-esto-es-una-entrega-radiotransmision-de-la-policia-venezolana-confirma-que-oscar-perez-fue-capturado-con-vida
The crime that required his execution? He embarrassed Chavismo.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)throughout Venezuela - on humanitarian grounds..how do we help..as a country - haven't we intervened before?? - so devastating for an opposition movement...
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)1. Military intervention. It would play right into his hands. He has been saying for YEARS (as did Chavez) that the US (and everyone else, except Cuba and Bolivia) has been trying to destroy Chavismo. Any military intervention would justify those claims, and he would use it to perpetuate (and deepen) the misery in Venezuela.
2. Humanitarian aid is there for the asking. However, Maduro won't ask for aid, because admitting he needs aid is admitting Chavismo (Bolivarian Socialism) is an epic failure. Asking for aid also acknowledges that Maduro cannot handle Venezuela, and UN intervention would be forthcoming. THIS HE WILL NOT ALLOW TO HAPPEN. Maduro has gone so far as to say that there is no humanitarian emergency. Venezuela is fine. There is no hunger. No lack of medicine. Venezuela's ONLY problem (according to Maduro) is the external "economic war" that is being waged against him.... err... Venezuela. (Maduro and Venezuela are one and the same, to him!)
3. The opposition (MUD). Banned from elections henceforth. The National Assembly has been effectively dissolved by Chavismo and replaced with a PSUV body (ANC) that makes up laws on the most bizarre of whims. Popular politicians are banned from running, and some have had to flee the country, lest they end up in SEBIN's prison, the Helicoid. No trials. No lawyers. No charges in many cases... just accusations by Chavistas.
Chavismo maintains control because for the last 18 years, every professional soldier and police officer has been replaced by Chavistas loyal only to the revolution. The police organization that Detective Perez belonged to (CICPC) was the last vestige of actual professional policing in Venezuela. The National Guard, National Police and the military is entirely Chavista. Every "officer" from Lieutenant on up is loyal to Chavismo. Most are not even trained. They are just Chavista jobsworths who only know how to take orders in order to get fed.
The deceased
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Thank you for such complete, I'm sure you could go on forever, for now, good synopsis - as I read through this information you have provided...question comes to mind...the UN.. they must know - so by the numbers..especially when I think about our decision to invade Iraq (unilaterally) - why can't the UN - certainly they have enough power, together as a UN body, to out number the Maduro regime.....
Intervention, to me, is imperative...
Thank you again..Oscar Perez...his name should never be forgotten....