Venezuela, 2015 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 12 February 2015, corresponding to the alleged February 2015 coup plot against President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, known as the Blue Coup or Golpe Azul, an offshoot of the earlier Operation Jericho air force plot. On 12 February 2015 the government said it had foiled a plot in which a group of military officers planned to use a Tucano aircraft to bomb the Miraflores presidential palace and other strategic targets in Caracas and to assassinate Maduro during Youth Day commemorations, then broadcast a pre-recorded video of a general announcing the military's overthrow of the government. The plot was reported to be linked to the 2014 Operation Jericho conspiracy, in which more than thirty mostly air force officers had been arrested for planning to sow rebellion in the armed forces.
Opposition politicians Leopoldo Lopez, Maria Corina Machado, and Antonio Ledezma were tied to the plan, having signed a call for a national transition agreement a day before the plot's scheduled date, and the government alleged United States backing. The 12 February 2015 coding matches the announcement of the foiled Blue Coup.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
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Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
10102122015
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Maduro's government said it foiled the Blue Coup and arrested officers and an opposition mayor.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
The Economist
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