‘The order is to kill you,’ Venezuelan soldiers reportedly told rebel cop before firing

Fearing for the lives of his fellow rebels and those of an innocent family also in the house where the shootout occurred, Óscar Pérez tried to negotiate his surrender with a National Guard major, whose agents had surrounded the house, according to a member of the Venezuelan opposition group known as Resistencia who was in touch with Pérez by phone during his last hours alive. “He told me that it was the major himself who announced that they were not going to take anyone alive. ‘We are not going to negotiate; the order is to kill you,’ that’s what he [Pérez] was told,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. More…