Caracas goes out to support Maduro after the failed attack

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Diosdado Cabello has insisted on accusing the political opposition of the attack against the head of state and has recriminated the lack of condemnation of it.

 

Thousands of supporters of the president of Venezuela have gone to the streets in Caracas today to express their support for Nicolás Maduro, who this Saturday suffered an attack that escaped unharmed and which has directly blamed his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos.

The mobilization, convened by the governing United Socialist Party (PSUV), has started from a point in the center of the Venezuelan capital to the presidential palace of Miraflores, where Maduro will offer a speech.

The president of the ruling National Constituent Assembly (ANC), Diosdado Cabello, has insisted on accusing the political opposition of the attack against the head of state and has recriminated the lack of condemnation of it.

"We ask the sectors of the right to think a little before doing things, before being silent before a fact like this, that could have shaken the foundations of this entire country, of this entire continent, only because of the ambition of power of a small group, "he has expressed.

The first vice-president of the PSUV has also celebrated the "response of the people" that, he has indicated, "goes out again to conquer his peace, to conquer the tranquility of the country (...), to condemn violence in all its manifestations ".

On Saturday several drones with explosive charges detonated in the vicinity of the presidential platform where Maduro was giving a speech.

By these facts there are up to now six detainees, whose identities are unknown, while an anonymous group has been adjudicated through the social networks the authorship of the fact.

However, four hours after the incident, Maduro blamed the Colombian president, who later rejected these accusations.