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The story of the red helicopter behind the attack against Iván Márquez in Venezuela

regimen Nicholas Maduro not only would he have rescued the badly wounded guerrilla Luciano Marín, alias Ivan Marquezafter an attack with explosives that it suffered last week in its territory.

EL TIEMPO had access to a report in which they are also trying to establish how a considered “friend” of the regime is between life and death after an attack in his camp area, set up in Venezuela and guarded by the Bolivarian Army.

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Contrary to what happened with the death of alias Jesús Santrich, discharged in May 2021, a few kilometers from a battalion, this time they want to establish who in Venezuela would have facilitated the attack against Márquez.

In the case of Santrich, it was assured that the armed command had fled in a yellow helicopter towards the Serranía del Perijá, on the northern border with Colombia. In fact, EL TIEMPO found the trace of a kind of security shield that prevented it from being detected.

And in the case of the death of alias ‘Romaña’, EL TIEMPO exclusively revealed photos of his body.

Now, in the report on the attack on There is talk of Márquez that the command that would have prepared the ambush with explosives moved in a red helicopter. But this time there is an additional piece of information: the license plate.

The red helicopter of the PDVSA oil company with registration similar to the one used for the attack on ‘Márquez’, operates in the San Tomé area, Anzoátegui state, an hour and a half from Ciudad Bolívar. (Photo: private file).

“Kill Seven”

The report ensures that the device It’s a UH-60 Blackhawk. However, the license plate on its tail belongs to another device.

EL TIEMPO tracked down the license plate and established that it belongs to an AS365N3 Dauphin (dolphin) device with the acronym YVO. In addition, there is a helicopter with these characteristics at the service of the state oil company PDVSA since 2014. That device was baptized Battle Mata Siete.

The hypothesis that is handled in Venezuela is that an official license plate was used so that the command moved without problem. In addition, it is not ruled out that the red helicopter is the same yellow one that was used in the hand attack against Santrich.

Santrich, Romaña, El Paisa and Gentil Duarte, FARC dissidents killed in Venezuelan territory.  (Photo: THE TIME).

Santrich, Romaña, El Paisa and Gentil Duarte, FARC dissidents killed in Venezuelan territory. (Photo: THE TIME).

EL TIEMPO established that the official helicopter of the PDVSA oil company operates in the San Tomé area, Anzoátegui state, an hour and a half from Ciudad Bolívar, a Venezuelan town where alias Iván Márquez was frequently seen.

For the investigative commission that was delegated, it is clear that there was again complicity of members of the Venezuelan Guard.

For now, it is known that Márquez he was transferred to an emergency in a military helicopter and that he would remain in a high-complexity hospital in Caracas.

Source: Elcomercio

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