President Maduro was speaking to the nation on live TV, on the occasion of the creation of the National Guard, when the broadcast was suddenly interrupted due to an attack with explosive devices launched by some drones.
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Maduro felt immediately after the attack has pointed the finger at Colombia declaring: "Today they tried to kill me I have no doubt that behind the attack there is the name of Juan Manuel Santos".
According to the president, the attack was organized by far-right exponents in collaboration with "conspirators" from Bogota and Miami, as well as an unspecified number of US "financiers". Maduro then went on to say that some of those responsible for the attack have already been arrested and addressing the American president said: "I hope that President Donald Trump is willing to fight terrorist groups".
Tarek Saab, attorney general, interviewed by the state TV VTV assured that the investigations go on and explained: "We can not exclude that there was the participation of some subversive elements and terrorists outside of Venezuela, this hypothesis falls between those of the public prosecutor . I confirm and guarantee that we will come to the truth ".
Jorge Dominguez, Venezuelan Minister of Communications, in a statement released a few hours after the attack, said that exactly at 17:41 some explosions were heard near the presidential box and in some residential areas caused by "drone-type flying artifacts that contained explosive charges. "I can officially say - he added - that this is an attack against the figure of President Maduro who was completely unharmed and is meeting to examine the incident with his collaborators, ministers and military leaders". Unfortunately, the minister continued, "the explosions caused injuries to seven members of the Bolivarian National Guard who were hospitalized". Ominguez then specified that "some drones loaded with explosives were shot down".
Hours later, the attack was claimed by a mysterious national 'Soldiers in T-Shirts' movement.
According to a statement made to the Venezuelan journalist Patricia Poleo, the Movement, which has defined itself as a group "of military and civil patriots, loyal to the Venezuelan people trying to save democracy in a nation under dictatorship", states that "It is against military honor to keep those who have not forgotten the Constitution but who have turned public offices into an obscene way to get rich".
In the release, read by Patricia Poleo in a video on her YouTube channel, Maduro is accused of impoverishing Venezuela: "If the goal of a government is to achieve the greatest happiness possible, we can not tolerate that the population suffers from hunger, that the sick they have no medicines, that money has no value, and that the system of education neither educates nor merely indoctrinates to communism ". The claim ends with an appeal to the revolt: "People of Venezuela, to successfully conclude this struggle for emancipation, we must take to the streets without going back".