Padrino López tries to separate himself from Chávez's collectives and asks the armed forces to take action against any violent group

The Venezuelan Minister of Defense, General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino López, ordered Friday at 9:00 and 15:00 pm, by means of radiogram No. 1011, and broadcast in the whole of the structure of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces. this Saturday morning a act firmly "against any armed group operating outside the law".

It is significant that the senior official said that a few hours after Nicolás Maduro and Diosdado Cabello had underlined the performance of the so-called "Collective" or armed shock groups, exposed to firearms attacking the civilian population and facing those who came to protest for serious problems of electricity, water, gas, food and medicine.

In the radiogram, where Padrino López distinguishes, among a series of disguised arguments, the position that has badumed the highest responsibilities of political power in Venezuela, stresses that: "The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic promotes participatory democracy and democracy. protagonist for the full exercise of citizenship, on the basis of which the Bolivarian Revolution led the people to structure different forms of social organization in order to achieve its objectives, we can cite as examples the groups sharing the same objective artistic, artistic, cultural, political, educational, sports, communicational, productive or other for the benefit of the community ".

"In the midst of the media campaign deployed in the context of the hybrid war against the homeland, these groups have been tempted to badociate with armed groups and common or organized crime generators of urban and extra-territorial type. urban. no badociation generating violence can be characterized as collective because it would be the antithesis of its original conception ".

"As a result, the head of the army is being called to order at all levels of command and the Venezuelan people are being asked to pay attention to the evil plans of right-wing political organizations that, under the auspices of imperial agents, aim to infiltrate mercenaries in order to: cause blood events that trigger chaos and confusion or a confrontation between brothers ".

The senior FANB official unreservedly supports the decisions of the citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros, Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, our Commander-in-Chief, regarding the participation of the organized people to guarantee the peace of the nation and will act firmly against any armed group operating outside the law ".

The Minister of Defense responds to the strong internal pressure in the armed forces against the actions of armed groups, which the common people call "collective" and which has been seen in many videos, circulating through the networks, acting with cruelty and violence, knocking down doors, firing and threatening, sometimes hooded, on motorcycles and always armed with rifles, pistols and short and piercing objects.