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Venezuelan opposition leader calls attack on Maduro ‘staged’

CARACAS, Aug 8, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Julio
Borges has denounced a purported assassination bid on President Nicolas
Maduro involving an explosives-laden drone as a staged “farce.”

“Neither the country nor the world believe you when it comes to this farce
of an attack, we all know that it was staged to persecute and repress those
of us who oppose your dictatorship,” Borges wrote on Twitter.

Maduro and his government said the president had been targeted on Saturday
by two flying drones each carrying a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of powerful C-4
explosives.

They have blamed a plot involving Borges, Colombia and other opposition
lawmakers, financed by unnamed figures in the US state of Florida.

Borges is one of the most prominent figures of the Venezuelan opposition
and a member of the Primero Justicia (Justice First) party of former
presidential candidate Henrique Capriles.

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