Venezuela's Maduro Says Will Use “Weapons” if “Votes” Fail Him as Supreme Court Attacked by Helicopter

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday afternoon he would achieve with weapons what he can’t achieve with votes, as violent protests against him continue in several parts of the country, including near the Miraflores Presidential Palace. This is Maduro, on the 87th day of continuous, deadly demonstrations against him: “I aspire that the world will listen after 90 days of violence, of destruction and death. If Venezuela was to be plunged in chaos and violence and the Bolivarian revolution to be destroyed, we would march into combat. We would never surrender and what we could not do with votes we would do with weapons. We would free our country with weapons.”More…