jat
2017-07-03 02:10:23 UTC
Venezuela is reversing the usual order. History there is playing out
first as farce, then as tragedy.
The barely credible latest from the crisis-wracked country is a plot
twist barely worthy of a B-movie. On Tuesday a rogue police commander
supposedly hijacked a helicopter, proclaimed rebellion, dropped grenades
on the supreme court, fired bullets at the interior ministry and
disappeared. Nobody was hurt.
Oscar Pérez, the attacker, has even starred in a B-movie, the 2015
action flick Suspended Death. A video posted before the attack on his
Instagram account – which also shows scenes of him shooting over his
shoulder using a mirror, and scuba-diving with a machine gun – shows him
calling for an overthrow of the government.
Nicolás Maduro, the president, called the flight “a terrorist attack”
that aimed to destabilise the government. “The person who took that
aircraft launched a coup and took up arms,” he said on state television.
“This is the kind of escalation I have been warning about.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/the-b-movie-playing-out-in-venezuela-could-have-a-tragic-twist-1.3141154
first as farce, then as tragedy.
The barely credible latest from the crisis-wracked country is a plot
twist barely worthy of a B-movie. On Tuesday a rogue police commander
supposedly hijacked a helicopter, proclaimed rebellion, dropped grenades
on the supreme court, fired bullets at the interior ministry and
disappeared. Nobody was hurt.
Oscar Pérez, the attacker, has even starred in a B-movie, the 2015
action flick Suspended Death. A video posted before the attack on his
Instagram account – which also shows scenes of him shooting over his
shoulder using a mirror, and scuba-diving with a machine gun – shows him
calling for an overthrow of the government.
Nicolás Maduro, the president, called the flight “a terrorist attack”
that aimed to destabilise the government. “The person who took that
aircraft launched a coup and took up arms,” he said on state television.
“This is the kind of escalation I have been warning about.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/the-b-movie-playing-out-in-venezuela-could-have-a-tragic-twist-1.3141154
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Knowledge will set you free
El conocimiento te hará libre