The United States deployed a military operation against drug trafficking near the neighboring country.
This combination of images created on August 7, 2025 shows the president of the United States, Donald Trump (left), in Grand Rapids, Mistigan, on November 5, 2024, and the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro (right), in Caracas, on July 31, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski and Federico Parra)
Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, announced Monday the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen in response to the “threats” of the United States, that raised the reward for information that leads to its capture and launched an anti -narcotics operation with military in the Caribbean.
The statements occur after the administration of President Donald Trump increased to 50 million The reward for “Information that leads to the arrest” of Maduroaccused of American justice of alleged links with drug trafficking.
“This week I will activate a special plan to guarantee coverage with more than 4.5 million militiamen from all over the national territory, Militias prepared, activated and armed“Maduro said in an act broadcast on television, when he ordered” tasks “against” the renewal of the extravagant, bizarre and quirky threats“From the United States against Venezuela.
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The militia, composed of about five million reservists, according to official figures, was created by former president Hugo Chávez. Later he became part of one of the five components of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).
Although he avoided openly referring to the reward announced on August 7 by the United States attorney general, Pamela Bondi, and the military deployment in Caribbean sea waters, Maduro thanked the expressions of support for what he paved as “rotten refrito” of threats
“The first who went ahead to express their solidarity and support with this workers’ president who is here are the military of this homeland, They went ahead with their rifles, with their missiles, their tanks, their planesthe Bolivarian National Armed Forces, they went to the avant -garde, “Maduro celebrated.
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Maduro asked his government’s political bases Advance in the formation of peasant militias and workers “in all factories.”
“Rifles and missiles for peasant force! To defend the territory, sovereignty and peace of Venezuela“He said.” Missiles and rifles for the working class, to defend our homeland, “Maduro remarked.
