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Weekly Report - 7 May 2015 (WR-15-18)
VENEZUELA: Military officers arrested in alleged coup plot
As we went to press, the defence ministry reported that nine members of the Venezuelan armed forces (seven active members of the air force including a general, plus a retired army coronel and a retired national guard captain), had been handed down jail sentences of between five and eight years for an alleged coup plot (‘Operation Jericho’) involving the use of one or more Tucano air force jets to attack several key government buildings in Caracas.
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