Note the "soul-bro" handshake, and Maduro looking eagerly on in the background.
Posted on 06/27/2017 8:41:48 PM PDT by Nextrush
A helicopter has apparently tried to bomb Venezuela's Supreme Court in what President Nicolas Maduro called a "terrorist attack".
The government says a police office flew the helicopter over the capital, Caracas, and dropped grenades.
Footage on social media shows a helicopter circling over the city before a loud bang is heard.
The officer believed to have seized the aircraft has issued a video statement condemning the government......
President Maduro said grenades had been dropped in the attack and he promised that security forces would capture those behind it.
"I have activated the entire armed forces to defend the peace," he said in an address from the Miraflores presidential palace.
"Sooner or later, we are going to capture that helicopter and those who carried out this terror attack."
The police officer, who called himself Oscar Perez, appeared on Instagram, flanked by armed and masked men in uniform.
He appealed to Venezuelans to oppose "tyranny".
"We are a coalition of military employees, policemen and civilians who are looking for balance and are against this criminal government," he said.
"We don't belong to any political party or tendency. We are nationalists, patriots and institutionalists.".......
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The first pebble that starts the landslide.
Maduro talked about using “arms” to take what could not be won by “votes” in a speech yesterday.
The regime continues to plan an “election” to its Castroite “assembly” next month which will be used to eliminate all existing political institutions and officially turn Venezuela into another Cuba.
Eerily similar to Turkey’s recent ‘coup’ attempt that Erdogan used to justify a crackdown on opponents.
Note the "soul-bro" handshake, and Maduro looking eagerly on in the background.
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