Shortly after apparently dodging a purported assassination attempt, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro pointed the finger squarely at the Colombian government and his detractors on the “ultra-right”.
Mr Maduro was part-way through a speech celebrating the National Guard's 81st anniversary when drones carrying explosives are said to have detonated, prompting pandemonium.
Neat formations of soldiers that had assembled for the event scattered and the president's bodyguards quickly ushered him away.
The 55-year-old was unharmed in the incident, but seven people were injured, the country's information minister said, with photographs showing soldiers bleeding as they walked from the scene.
But who is the Venezualan president? And why might there be a plot to kill him?
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