Nicolás Maduro reported in a video published on his Telegram channel that the military exercises will be held on January 22 and 23
Nicolás Maduro announced this Sunday, January 19, about the first “Bolivarian Shield Exercises 2025” that will take place on January 22 and 23.
“Popular, military, police exercise of the year. “We are going to defend borders, coasts, cities, vital elements for the country,” he said in a video shared through the social network Telegram.
In the video, Maduro was shown in an exercise routine, where he emphasized that the Bolivarian Shield Exercise 2025 will be carried out in a civic-military-police union “to guarantee peace, national sovereignty, as well as true democracy.” , reviewed the state channel VTV.
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“We are going together in perfect popular, military, and police fusion to demonstrate that Venezuela has the power to live in peace, in the exercise of its full sovereignty and in democracy. Everyone pending! Bolivarian Shield Exercises 2025, Charge! To battle and victory! “Our triumph is peace!” he repeated.
On Wednesday, January 15 during the Memory and Account, Maduro He ordered the Armed Forces and the police forces to prepare “the rifles” in the face of what he considered “criminal threats” from former Colombian leaders Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque, who recently advocated for an “international intervention” in Venezuela.
Maduro had warned after a questioned inauguration on January 10, that Venezuela is preparing, together with Cuba and Nicaragua, to “take up arms,” if necessary, in order to defend “the right to peace” and the “homeland.” ».
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