Nicolás Maduro affirmed that scientific development in the country does not seek to “create atomic bombs to launch, or weapons of mass destruction,” but rather develops ideas to cure diseases such as cancer, dengue, diabetes, among others.
“Scientific and technological knowledge giving amazing results, many of them secret, in the field of the military industry and in the weapons system that defends the Republic in the hands of our glorious National Armed Forces,” said Nicolás Maduro this Tuesday, November 18 during the delivery of the XX National Awards for Science, Technology and Innovation Dr. Humberto Fernández-Morán.
He assured that cadets with a scientific vision are being trained at the University of Military Sciences and Art.
Maduro’s statement that the country is making progress in the military and weapons fields with discretion occurs in the midst of tensions between the United States and Venezuela, following the military deployment that Donald Trump’s administration maintains in the Caribbean and which the ruling party claims seeks a regime change in the country.
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However, he indicated that scientific and technological advances are not “to create atomic bombs to be launched, nor weapons of mass destruction.” He stated that researchers are developing ideas to cure cancer in different forms, to control dengue, chikungunya and other diseases such as diabetes.
Maduro added that Venezuelan scientists are “thinking about how to take care of our children from different diseases, who have syndromes such as autism. “We are thinking of a science applied for life, for peace, for development, not for war or death.”
On the other hand, Nicolás Maduro indicated that the development of science is giving results to activate the industry, for new information and communication technologies, in fiber optic systems, in the field of artificial intelligence, Quantum Physics, among other areas.
In that same sense, he announced that Venezuela “is aimed at being a great center of scientific creation, innovation, and technology from Latin America and the Caribbean for the good of humanity, for development, for peace.”
During the delivery of the XX National Science Awards, Maduro said that, one year after inaugurating the Dr. Humberto Fernández-Morán University, there are 1,800 students training and assured that the country’s scientific community is made up of 67,000 researchers.
The sectoral vice president of Science, Technology and Health, Gabriela Jiménez, assured that the country “has managed to reduce the incidence of dengue in the population by 29%, compared to the year 2024”, through joint work with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Communes, Social Movements and Urban Agriculture, in which more than 71 thousand families were treated to prevent infections.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the 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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