Maduro: "The time has come to fight" | The pre …

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro urged officers and soldiers to "stay loyal to the government" by delivering a speech in the court of honor of the Fuerte Tiuna military academy in Caracas. "The time has come to fight and give the example to the world and say that in Venezuela there is a coherent, loyal and consistent FAN (National Armed Forces), which defeats the coup attempt conspirators. of state sold in Washington, "said the president, who asked the officers" to disarm any traitor and golpista ".

Dressed in military dress and surrounded by troops, Maduro announced today a "Military March with the officers always worthy and loyal of our armed forces". "Yesterday, I was in the street next to the city," he said in his speech, adding that he had witnessed a "monumental mobilization of popular dignity."

During the ceremony, which was broadcast live on the social network Twitter, the Venezuelan president said that during the "skirmish led by a coup" led by "traitors" there are two days, the rebels "took out the machine guns to point them against the Venezuelan army and against the people".

He also badured that "80% of the officers and soldiers present (at the events of April 30) left them alone, they withdrew" because "they realized that they had been deceived". "Something positive came out on the wrong side: loyalty, in the middle of a fight, was not afraid to say" no "to the traitors," no "to the putschists," he added.

For his part, the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, said that "they intend to buy us as if we were mercenaries, they intend to break with the # 39; most sacred military honor ".