Óscar Alberto Pérez was a Venezuelan police officer and actor who was an inspector for the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps of Venezuela (CICPC) and an insurgent leader known for his attempt to create an armed insurgency against the Bolivian government of Nicolás Maduro.
Biography[]
He was born in Caracas, son of Aminta Rosa Pérez Carrero, he never met his biological father, he lived his childhood and adolescence in the Venezuelan capital Caracas where he always studied in a public school because his mother being single would not have the ability to pay for a public high school he would graduate from high school and would get a government scholarship to enter the BAE within the CICPC where he would graduate as a police inspector it is known that he had a specialty in diving and dog training also he would graduate as an actor being his only film suspended death acting as the inspector. Pérez created his own foundation called GV33 Moral y Luces to make donations of medicines to children rescued from dangerous neighborhoods.
He was the husband of Danahis Vivas, with whom he had three children, one of whom was almost kidnapped, which led him to tell them to leave the country with their mother.
Attack on the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela
More specifically, after the death of former President Hugo Chávez Pérez, he began to detest the actions of high-ranking government officials, who began plundering the country's resources and intimidating citizens through colectivos [armed groups]. Pérez eventually stole a CICPC helicopter, which he used to place a sign with the number 350, a reference to Article 350, which allows for the removal of the government if it begins to act tyrannically. He also attacked the Supreme Court with stun grenades and fired at the Palace of Justice as a message of rejection of the court's extreme corruption.
assault on the Bolivarian National Guard base
Following this incident, Oscar Pérez convinced his best friend Díaz Pimentel, who managed to convince a small group of followers to join his cause. On December 10, 2017, the group raided a Bolivarian National Guard base dressed in stolen DGCIM uniforms, managing to subdue and arrest everyone inside. They then confiscated all weapons and fled.