{"id":73064,"date":"2017-06-28T06:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73064"},"modified":"2017-06-28T08:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:34:33","slug":"when-societies-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73064","title":{"rendered":"When societies collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted for your comment from BBC<\/a> because I can barely understand the horror of this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

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Venezuela crisis: Helicopter launches attack on Supreme Court<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has been attacked by grenades dropped from a helicopter in what President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro called a “terrorist attack”.<\/p>\n

Footage on social media shows a police helicopter circling over the city before shots and a loud bang are heard.<\/p>\n

The police officer said to have piloted the stolen aircraft issued a statement denouncing the “criminal government”. His whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n

It comes after mass protests against the political and economic crisis.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court is regularly criticised by the Venezuelan opposition for its rulings which bolster Mr Maduro’s hold on power.<\/p>\n

Who flew the helicopter?<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

The police officer identified himself as Oscar P\u00e9rez in video statements posted on the social media platform Instagram.<\/p>\n

Appearing in military fatigues and flanked by armed, masked men in uniform, he appealed to Venezuelans to oppose “tyranny”.<\/p>\n

Man identifying himself as Oscar P\u00e9rez makes statement<\/p>\n

It is generally an exercise in futility trying to predict if some new twist in Venezuela’s long-running crisis is a “turning point” for the country.<\/p>\n

There have been scores of seemingly decisive moments over the past few months – from the initial decision to strong-arm the national assembly, to the latest death of a teenage protester in Caracas – that quickly faded into the general malaise afflicting the oil-rich nation.<\/p>\n

However, the sight of an apparently disaffected member of the security forces dropping grenades on the Supreme Court and allegedly firing on government buildings is extreme, even by Venezuela’s standards.<\/p>\n

Whether “Oscar P\u00e9rez” is indeed part of a coalition of like-minded “military employees, policemen and civilians” or just a rogue policeman is hard to say.<\/p>\n

Certainly President Maduro was quick to dub the incident “a terrorist attack” and used it as a reason to “activate” the armed forces to keep the peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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