Venezuela says explosions were an attack on President Maduro: ‘This was an attempt to kill me’
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Venezuela’s government reported Saturday afternoon that several explosions, heard at a speech given by President Nicolas Maduro, were an attempted attack on him.
“This was an attempt to kill me,” Maduro, who was unharmed, said in an address to his nation Saturday, according to The Associated Press. “Today they attempted to assassinate me.”
Maduro is blaming far-right factions in his beleaguered socialist nation for the attack.
He said evidence gathered thus far “points to the far right” working in conjunction with Colombians in the neighboring Andean nation. Maduro said he believed Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was also responsible.
He added that arrests had been made and promised a full investigation, “no matter who falls.”
Maduro said the factions in Venezuela were working with conspirators in Bogota, and in Miami. Asserting that some of those who financed tyhe attack had links to Miami, he said he hoped President Trump is “willing to fight the terrorist groups.”
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