Nicolás Maduro announced that on Saturday, organization exercises will be carried out to refine “even more all territorial defense mechanisms”, in a context marked by the military presence of the United States in the Caribbean, denounced by Caracas as a “threat” to promote a “regime change.”
In an event transmitted by the Venezuelan state television channel (VTV) this Thursday, the president explained that it will be a “special organizational” day of “command, conduction and communication of the entire professional structure” of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and the militia.
“It is not an exercise of armament movement, but organizational, to leave tuned further all the mechanisms of territorial defense, national defense of our homeland, because Venezuela is respected, Venezuela builds its military popular power, an immense military popular movement,” he said.
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They will also be included, he said, the 5,336 militia communal units (UCM) installed “a few weeks ago” and “all 15,751” called Popular Bases of Integral Defense (BPDI).
Maduro said that every week they will continue “raising” the “operational, internal communication and deployment, to guarantee” happy and peace “Christmas, which began on Wednesday in the South American country by decision of the head of state.
Since August and in response to those denouncing as “threats” against the nation, the Government has summoned Venezuelans to mobilizations and days of both enlistment in militia and training, in order to strengthen the so-called “popular-military-political fusion” and improve the national defense system.
A good part of these activities have been carried out on Saturdays, such as last week, when a national drill of emergencies for natural disasters or armed conflicts was carried out, after a seismic swarm that affected the west of the country and also in view of the US military deployment.
This Thursday, the exterior and defense portfolios denounced an “illegal forage of combat aircraft” from the USA 75 kilometers of Venezuelan coasts, a fact that, they said, will be denounced before the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, and other instances such as CELAC.
Through a statement, the Chavista administration demanded that the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegesh, Cesar immediately “in its reckless, adventurous and warrist position, which aims to undermine the Peace Zone of Latin America and the Caribbean and endangers regional stability,” according to the text.
