2018 assassination attempt on Nicolás Maduro event
also: assassination attempt, botched assassination, foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, false flag operation, drone attack
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Venezuela characterized
2018 assassination attempt on Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“promptly characterized the incident as a foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, others, including Bolton, hastily dismissed it as a false flag operation. Quote, I can unequivocally say there is no U.S. involvement in any of this,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 5:59
John Bolton covered_up
2018 assassination attempt on Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“promptly characterized the incident as a foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, others, including Bolton, hastily dismissed it as a false flag operation. Quote, I can unequivocally say there is no U.S. involvement in any of this,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 5:59
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He was in Vice President Mike Pence's office. John Bolton, Maduro would then go on to say, it all points to John Bolton, who has a criminal mentality, a murderer's mentality, according to Maduro. The Venezuelan president was referring to an…
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while USAID was funding Guaido's rise to power. On the evening of August 4, 2018, Maduro was delivering an outdoor address to the ranks of Venezuela's National Guard when a thunderous explosion erupted from the sky above him. Venezuela's pr…
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National Guard troops scattered in the streets as though they were being ambushed. As Maduro, his wife, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, and thousands of National Guard troops present managed to escape without injury, authorities tr…
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promptly characterized the incident as a foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, others, including Bolton, hastily dismissed it as a false flag operation. Quote, I can unequivocally say there is no U.S. involvement in any of this,…
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Bolton's theory was discredited months later when a group of Venezuelan military defectors claimed responsibility for the botched assassination and provided CNN with cell phone video documenting their preparation for it. The organizers clai…
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on their target. They ultimately failed to evade authorities in Caracas who destroyed the drones mid-air after noticing they violated Venezuelans' airspace. What precisely inspired the would-be assassin's confession to the press is unknown.…
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because of course they were. At the same time, they brazenly admitted to meeting with several U.S. officials on three different occasions in the aftermath of the attack. Once again, no reason for that was offered. Venezuelan's government, o…
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They were very familiar with it. He informed us the president was visiting this place to address a graduation ceremony of firefighters in their national park service. Maduro would go on to explain that they fight fires with drones, which wa…
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He believes in God. I believe that there was an event that day that God saved our lives. In Maduro's view, his assassination would have plunged Venezuela into an armed revolution. They planned it to perfection with so much evil to assassina…
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Maduro would go on to say that he couldn't accuse President Trump directly because he didn't think he was involved in it. He said, but I do have all the evidence to accuse John Bolton. He's a criminal and he failed. Bolton would later cite …