VENEZUELA’S foreign minister condemned the opposition and its foreign backers for remaining largely silent over this week’s helicopter attack on the capital.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Samuel Moncada said Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition leader Henry Ramos’s only comment on social media was that the attack the previous day had been “useless.”

“Firstly, that does not condemn it,” Mr Moncada pointed out. “Secondly, it appears he was condemning it because it didn’t have the desired effect, that is to say, that it would blow up the building.”