Comment by t0mas88

As a follow-up, Cloudflare came to the same conclusion: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

> The newsletter suggests “BGP shenanigans” and posits that such a leak could be exploited to collect intelligence useful to government entities. > > While we can’t say with certainty what caused this route leak, our data suggests that its likely cause was more mundane.