Loyal Venezuelan Troops Mop Up After Coup Bid : Revolt: Gunship downs helicopter that strafed presidential palace. At least 100 reported killed in uprising, 1,100 captured.

An army gunship shot down a helicopter that strafed the presidential palace Saturday as loyalist troops tried to crush the remaining insurgents who tried to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez.

The government also issued emergency measures to speed trials of rebels arrested in the second military-backed coup against Perez this year.

At least 1,100 suspected rebels have been captured since Friday when dissident air force, navy and police factions--claiming to represent the poor--launched the uprising in this nation of vast oil resources but widespread poverty.

Government officials and newspapers say at least 100 people were killed in the insurrection, allegedly led by top military officers in Caracas and Maracay, about 50 miles southwest of Caracas.

At least 42 of the deaths came when inmates rebelled at Caracas’ Reten de Catia prison. Seventy-five bodies were counted Saturday in the city morgue.

About 1,000 suspected rebels were held at Libertador air base in Maracay, said the area’s governor, Carlos Tablante. The remaining rebels, including suspected leaders, were jailed in Caracas.

But there appeared to be some pockets of resistance.

Four rebel police officers were killed when the helicopter they used to fire on the palace was hit by army gunfire and crashed, said Lt. Col. Jose Antonio Paez.

Sporadic gunfire also broke out near the presidential palace and in the middle-class January 23 neighborhood. An Associated Press photographer saw at least two people wounded, and three others were reported wounded by sniper fire.

Ten city police were arrested Saturday at the palace and led away barefoot. Some suspects had swollen faces and showed signs of being beaten, according to a reporter at the scene.

The government, which declared the rebellion over Friday, blamed the shooting on snipers and holdout rebels.

Venezuela is one of Latin America’s longest-standing democracies. But in South America, democracy is used loosely to mean civilian government, which now exists in all the continent’s 12 independent nations.

Many countries in the region are run by small, traditional elites separated from the people by chasms of wealth, education, race, even language. The armed forces often are seen as arbiters of democracy and have great political influence.

Venezuela is OPEC’s No. 3 oil exporter, but it has been beset by economic troubles stemming from a downturn in oil prices. Riots in 1989 over a cutoff in food subsidies left 300 people dead.

Per capita income in this nation of 20 million is about $2,600 a year, down from $3,000 since the early 1980s. But most workers earn the minimum wage of $115 a month.

“Now the coup mongers are causing even more damage to the people than the government,” said Lufi Hadala, 39, whose blue jeans shop is near the presidential palace. “Destroying houses and stores is no way to gain the support of the people.”

The involvement of city police appeared to confirm the wide scope of the uprising. A February coup attempt, in which dozens of army officers died, was limited to army rebels. Both attempts have had broad popular sympathy.

Perez, whose five-year term expires in February, 1994, is disliked because of his austere economic policies. A test of his support could come in elections scheduled for Dec. 6 for state governors, mayors and city councils.

In a statement Saturday, Perez, 70, called for the political parties to continue their campaigns. Otherwise he remained silent, meeting with Cabinet ministers and aides in the palace.

Ten top air force and navy officers were believed in charge of Friday’s rebellion, which was joined by civilians and snipers allegedly of the leftist Red Flag guerrilla group.

One of the leaders of the uprising, Air Brig. Gen. Francisco Visconti, and up to 100 supporters fled Friday in an air force C-130 Hercules transport plane to Iquitos, Peru, where they requested political asylum.

A 12-hour curfew in effect overnight Friday was cut Saturday to 10 p.m.-6 a.m., and the government reopened the Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas.