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Venezuelan Defense Minister Condemns Attack Against Maduro

  • Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino provides a statement on Saturday's attack against President Maduro.

    Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino provides a statement on Saturday's attack against President Maduro. | Photo: teleSUR

Published 5 August 2018
Opinion

"Under no circumstances will we accept that national sovereignty is violated," Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Minister of Defense of Venezuela, said.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino gave a statement Sunday morning regarding yesterday's attack against President Nicolas Maduro in which he supported the president against the attempt on his life.

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"In the face of the criminal terrorist act perpetrated against President Nicolas Maduro, we reject this cowardly action... And under no circumstances will we accept that national sovereignty is violated," Vladimir Padrino Lopez, Minister of Defense of Venezuela, said during a televised statement.

"This event of yesterday has touched a very dangerous extreme," he added and stressed that this attack was "to destroy, to decapitate, a whole State." He further slammed what he called a failed coup attempt against the Maduro government and stressed the national army's rejection of such attempts. 

"How much it has cost for these factors of the murderous and cowardly right to understand that the path that Venezuelans have chosen is the path of peace, of democracy ... How long is that childish behavior" going to last?

Padrino Lopez further recalled the attack against Simon Bolívar and added that "200 years later we have here traitors, the oligarchy that is projected with the same feat".

In turn, he expressed solidarity with the seven officials injured in the assassination attempt, of which the president was unharmed thanks to the protection of the Armed Forces who managed to destroy the drone quickly. 

"We have 20 years of resisting the perversity, the moral degradation of factors of the Venezuelan far-right that continue taking the path of violence to dismember a democratic state," lamented the minister.

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