The head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB), G/J Domingo Hernandez Larez, reported this Wednesday, January 22, during the deployment of the military exercise “Bolivarian Shield 2025”, that 150 thousand men are deployed in these maneuvers in 290 strategic exercises for the defense of peace and democracy.
“It is a very complete exercise where the 335 municipalities of the country are involved, for this comprehensive defense of the nation. We are using 153 naval assets, 250 military vehicles, as well as aerial assets, we have tanks and our artillery,” he said during a conversation with the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro within the framework of the start of the maneuvers.
Larez explained that the FANB, in a perfect civic-military-police fusion, has all the available resources of the State. “Let us remember that we are a territory of peace, a democratic, free and independent territory.”
“We do not accept interference from another country. We have the right to self-determine. The Armed Forces in our constitutional mission are prepared for the comprehensive defense of the nation,” he noted.
Likewise, the senior military officer highlighted that these maneuvers are designed to prepare the FANB and the Popular Power to act in the maintenance of internal order, and border control of our entire territory by air, sea and land.
In this sense, he highlighted the linkage of the Management Bodies for Comprehensive Defense (ODDI) to improve reaction capabilities in everything related to the protection of our sovereignty and territorial identity.
