Minister Vladimir Padrino López said that the “US intelligence and exploration operations” against Venezuela have “tripled” in August. Regarding the “assault” of a Venezuelan ship, he said that the US military “lied” by saying that they were in contact with Caracas for such an intervention
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López denounced this Sunday 14 that the United States makes “intelligence” flights about Venezuela, and insisted that Washington wants to justify a “military and intervention threat plan” to “displace” Nicolás Maduro.
“Intelligence operations have always been given in the United States army aircraft,” said Padrino López during a balance of operations, although he indicated that they now passed from a daytime pattern to the night and at dawn and at dawn “triplicate, in August, intelligence and exploration operations against Venezuela.”
«We have our appreciations and we are prepared: before each flight, an individual action of a weapons system or collectively. We know what they are doing, we know the deployment in the Caribbean Sea with all the intention of sowing a war that Venezuelans do not want, ”he said.
Regarding the “assault” to a tuna ship in waters of the exclusive economic zone of Venezuela, the Minister of Defense assured that the US military told fishermen who were in contact with Caracas to carry out the review.
Padrino López said these communications were not true. “It is assumed that for an operation of that nature they have to notify us, respecting the agreements (…) we are still waiting for the final report of that visit and record to the fishermen, we are still waiting for it.”
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He also recriminated the United States for having a destroyer for this type of operations against drug trafficking. «I do not understand how a destroyer (…) how much power in the sea to intimidate, to harass, to humiliate our fishermen. I tell the fishermen, not only of Venezuela, do not fall into terror.
«We do not want to have any incident in our sea, we will not fall into provocations. We have the ability to react here but we are not going to fall into provocations (…) because they want us to make an error to start a conflict, ”said Padrino López.
On the other hand, he reported on the activation of 96 shots polygons throughout the national territory so that those enlisted in the Bolivarian militia carry out practices on the use of weapons.
He said that this training stage will remain every Saturday from 9 in the morning in all enabled spaces. “We are building a great strength.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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