Maduro’s latest crackdown in Venezuela comes right out of a hit 1999 movie

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YouTuber and American resident Óscar Alejandro Pérez was recently arrested on terrorism charges while trying to visit his mother in Venezuela. 32 hours behind bars later, Pérez was released and must now await trial in the Latin American country known for human rights violations, inflation, and the socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro.  

So why was Óscar Alejandro Pérez arrested? Regime officials claim that Pérez called on Venezuelans to bomb the Credicard Tower in Caracas — a building where, Pérez says in a 2023 video, all of Venezuela’s credit and debit card servers are located, thereby causing the country’s banking system to fall. The problem for the Maduro regime, aside from this statement being wildly taken out of context, is that this is also the exact plot of the hit 1999 film Fight Club.

The farcical arrest of Óscar Alejandro Pérez is the latest in a saga of targeted arrests in Venezuela. With a following of nearly 2 million on the video-sharing platform, Pérez routinely spoke about the realities of life in the socialist nation. He opened a recent video by pointing out that Venezuela’s minimum wage is $3.60 per month, the lowest in

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