Conflict in Venezuela: Nicolás Maduro calls on the army to "be ready" to defend the country from an attack of the United States – 04/05/2019

The Venezuelan President, Nicolás MaduroSaturday called the armed forces to be ready to defend the country from a possible US attack, which coincides with mobilizations called by the opposition Juan Guaidó to military bases.

Accompanied by the high command and thousands of soldiers, Maduro asked them "to be ready to defend the homeland with weapons in hand if one day the American empire dares to touch this country ".

"Union, cohesion, discipline, obedience, subordination and supreme loyalty to the Constitution, the homeland, the revolution and the legitimate commander-in-chief," asked the president in front of some 5,300 people in uniform, most of the cadets.

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"We are not a weak or defenseless country, we have a powerful Bolivarian national armed force that should be more united, more coherent and more loyal than ever," Maduro said during his visit to the training center in the country. municipality of Pao. , in the state of Cojedes (center).

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Before the speech, broadcast on radio and television, Maduro was driving a military vehicle in a large esplanade where a training base of the armed forces operates.

After a failed insurgency led by Guaidó on Tuesday, the Socialist leader reiterated his demand for "loyalty" while demanding that the military have a "peeled (open) eye with traitors, traitors and the fifth column".

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"I told the generals and admirals yesterday: my loyalty, I want active loyalty (…) I trust you, but to the naked eye, a handful of traitors can not tarnish the "Honor, the union, cohesion and image of the armed force," Maduro remarked.

Guaidó, speaker of Parliament, is recognized as interim president of Venezuela for fifty countries led by the United States.

About 30 uniformed soldiers on Tuesday spearheaded an uprising by Guaidó, whom Maduro denounced as a "skirmish of coup d'état" backed by the government of President Donald Trump, accused of promoting intervention in Venezuela for the first time. seizure of oil and mineral reserves.

"They have an unconventional war of character to weaken the country and a conspiracy with a lot of money to weaken, destroy and divide the national Bolivarian armed forces from within, with a group of conspirators of the coup d'etat. 39 "state," said Maduro.

Source: agencies