The Commander in Chief of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Nicolás Maduro, decorated the “four brave and patriotic” Venezuelan soldiers who were attacked by the imposition of unilateral coercive measures by the United States (US) yesterday Thursday.
“The imperial government of the United States attacked and assaulted them with so-called sanctions, for having been protagonists of the victory of peace in Venezuela against the attack of the fascist outbreak,” stressed the President of the Republic this Friday during an act of supervision of the work of the Bricomiles from the city of Caracas.
Maduro criticized the intimidation and “ridiculous sanctions” imposed by the U.S. government against public officials in the country.
“They think they are blackmailing the officers and soldiers of our glorious Bolivarian National Armed Forces, but what they will never be able to understand is that their sanctions are decorations in the souls of the patriots who love our Venezuela and who will never surrender to any blackmail, to any threat,” he stressed.
In this regard, the national president expressed his emotion and joy at awarding the members of the FANB with the Order of Libertadores y Libertadoras in its first class:
- General in Chief Domingo Hernández Lárez, Strategic Operational Commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFANB).
- Major General Elio Estrada Paredes, Commander of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB).
- Major General Johan Hernández Lárez, Commander of the Capital Strategic Comprehensive Defense Region (REDI) of the GNB.
- Brigadier General Asdrúbal Brito Hernández, Director of Criminal Investigations of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM).
Hostile attitude of the gringos
Maduro argued that “the gringos” yesterday Thursday once again demonstrated “a truly hostile attitude, repeating the mistakes they already made against Venezuela.”
“They will not be able to stop the course of the Bolivarian Revolution with threats, sanctions or anything, not today or ever; they will not be able to divide the powerful civic-military-popular union,” he stressed.
At noon on Thursday, the US Treasury Department imposed personal sanctions on 16 senior public officials of the Supreme Court of Justice, the National Electoral Council, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the country’s intelligence agencies, in response to the neutralization of violent and coup plans, as well as the failure to recognize the election results promoted by extremist sectors of the opposition.
