On Wednesday evening, the Brazilian Air Force announced it had transported illegal drugs from Venezuela into Brazilian airspace and shot down an airplane allegedly killing two pilots.
The Brazilian Air Force explained to the locals Outlet And the formula Social Media It explains the plane was shot down on Tuesday, February 11th as part of Operation Ostium, a security operation jointly with Brazilian federal police for criminal activity at the Brazilian border.
Authorities said a plane that did not have identification had illegally entered Brazilian airspace from Venezuela. Upon detection of the inbound surface of Venezuela by a Brazilian radar system, the Air Force explained that the pilot ordered the plane to change course and land on designated airfields in the Amazon region. The plane ignored order, and in response, the Brazilian plane fired a warning shot Following national security protocols to prevent the flight from continuing.
The aircraft was classified as “hostile” after ignoring the landing order and was shot down near the city of Manaus as a measure of “last resort.” The plane crashed into the Amazon rainforest, exploded, killing two passengers.
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A Brazilian Air Force helicopter went to the crash site on Wednesday. The military and police officers confirmed the deaths of the two pilots, and confirmed the discovery and seizure of unspecified drugs within the wreckage.
“After the investigation and the failure of intervention measures, a detention shot (TDE) must be performed, resulting in aircraft down and two dead traffickers and drugs,” Brazilian Air Force said. I said In that statement.
” [Brazilian Air Force] We strengthen our commitment to maintaining airspace sovereignty and the country's defense,” the statement concluded.
Brazilian Air Force It is reportedly They called the 2004 orders on the 1998 Shooting Act and the 2004 airspace security to defeat a plane suspected of drug trafficking. Under the laws called, Air Force fighters refuse to comply with all orders given to them, and if they fail to comply, they must intercept and fire hostile planes to protect national security and sovereignty. It says that it can be done.
Brazilian authorities have not released any further information during the reporting on the Venezuelan interventional drug transport plane, two dead pilots and the types and amounts of drugs transported by the plane.
For most of the past 20 years, neighbors Venezuela and Brazil were fostered by late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez and Brazil's radical left-wing president Louis Inacio Lula da Silva. maintains a friendly bond. According to For Chavez, he and Lula became close friends in the 1990s long before either one was elected president.
After Chavez's death due to an undisclosed cancer in March 2013, his appointed successor, current socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, is with Lula's former left-wing president Dilma Rusev. Together they maintained a friendly connection with their left-wing-led neighbors.
Rusev was fired each 2016 While Lula, who served as two consecutive presidential terms between 2003 and 2011, was declared over allegations of corruption 2019 In prison for more than 20 years on multiple corruption charges committed between his first two presidential conditions.
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) It was overturned Lula's conviction in 2021 allowed him to run for president again in 2022.
Under the Bolsonaro administration, Brazil cut all ties with Venezuela in 2019, following the 2018 fake election, in response to Maduro no longer being the country's legitimate president. After an official visit to Maduro's neighboring nations, they reestablished friendly ties and cooperation between the two left governments. May 2023.
However, after Maduro held another fraudulent presidential election on July 28, 2024, the friendly relations between Lula and Maduro deteriorated.
Maduro is said to have personally promised Lula's top foreign policy advisor Celso Amorim to provide him with voter data and documents to show him his “winning” in a very unfair event. . Neither Maduro nor members of his socialist regime have published documented documents at the press conference.
Maduro's refusal to provide promised voter documents – Amorim described as a “breaking violation of trust” that has nothing to do with “democracy” – to Lula Snub Venezuelans in Venezuelan sacrifice a highly cobbetized membership sheet for BRICS Anti-US Bloc at the latest annual meeting of a group hosted by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Kazan city in October 2024 .
Lula, 79, was scheduled to attend the meeting. cancel His trip after suffering a head injury in a bathroom accident he was planning to travel to Russia. A few weeks later, in December, Lula was in an emergency. Surgery Excrete intracranial hemorrhage caused by injury.
Maduro, who attended a BRICS meeting as a guest; I insisted When we returned to Caracas, a karate where no one would reject or silence Venezuela, we ominously predicted that anyone trying to do it would “dieve.” Venezuela Attorney General Tarek William Saab defendant Rula “fakes” head injuries as part of an unnatural anti-Venezuelan plot to exclude him from the BRICS group. Saab presented no evidence to demonstrate his accusation.
January, Amorim announcement The government of Lula is not aware of Maduro's fraudulent election victory. Despite this, Brazil maintains diplomatic ties with Venezuela. Maduro It is reportedly We did not extend our personal invitation to Lula to attend his inauguration on January 10, 2025. Instead, he was represented by the ambassador of Caracas Grivania Maria de Oliveira.
Christian K. Calzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
