A GROUP of anti-government militants who attacked a Venezuelan army base on Sunday were “financed and directed from Miami and Colombia,” President Nicolas Maduro claimed on state television.

Speaking on his weekly TV programme “Sundays with Maduro,” the president said that the pre-dawn raid by 20 heavily armed attackers included corrupt Venezuelan officials with mansions in Miami.

“I have ordered preventative and security measures of all military units to be reviewed and heightened.”
Mr Maduro said that soldiers killed two of the attackers and wounded another. Seven others were arrested and the 10 who escaped were being “actively searched for.”