Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez made a call for ‘national unity’ while speaking at the Defence Ministry in Caracas on Sunday, one day after an apparent assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Blaming the alleged assassination attempt on ‘far-right cowards of the oligarchies,’ Padrino Lopez vowed that ‘they will have to pass on top of our ruins in order to install a despotic government of blood here.’