Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Caracas, Oct. 2 – Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino today denounced the United States military harassment and threat against the Venezuelan people, with the presence of F-35 warplanes near the country.
From the Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base and accompanied by the Commander of the Strategic Operational Command of the FANB, General-in-Chief Domingo Hernández, the military high command asserted that the Bolivarian Republic seeks peace and tranquility.
“I denounce the presence of US combat aircraft in the Caribbean Sea in areas near Venezuela,” he emphasized, and confirmed that “this does not intimidate the Venezuelan people.”
The General-in-Chief revealed that at this moment 36,000 military personnel are deployed as part of operations underway in various parts of the country to confront drug trafficking, criminal groups, and illegalities.
Padrino expressed that “I always tell the imperialists to carefully measure their actions and decisions because miscalculations could lead to a third world war.”
Offering a balance of the operational deployments of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB, for its acronym in Spanish), he reaffirmed the defense of the nation in popular, military, and police fusion, which “are in permanent offense,” he added.
He noted that the initiative must always be carried forward, without losing sight of it because "if the initiative is lost, the offensive is lost, and in turn, the defense is lost."
He emphasized that in Venezuela there are no defensive postures, but rather "patriotic ones that move forward every day with coherent strategies in defense of the beloved homeland."
Above all, he affirmed, in the current situation when the US empire is rising and deploying its warships and aircraft in the Caribbean Sea, in an area that in Latin America we call a Zone of Peace and that is the "spirit that is breathed" in the region, he opined.
He declared that those who do not understand this should refer to the Proclamation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which in 2014 in Havana, Cuba, “everyone stood up and said: this is a Zone of Peace free of violence.”
The sectorial Vice President for Political Sovereignty, Security, and Peace denounced that they want to impose blackmail and coercion through force, extortion, and military threat.
He commented that in response they have been preparing the people, the State, the institutions, and the FANB, and for this reason, the Commander-in-Chief called for enlistment in the Bolivarian National Militia, to which more than eight million militiamen have joined, over 60 percent of whom have been trained for years. (Source: Prensa Latina)
