With suspicions about his environment, Nicolás Maduro tries to regain control of the armed forces.

This had a greater impact, for the Nicolás Maduro regime and for the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, on the events that took place on April 30 with the statement of a small group of army officials and intelligence services, accompanied by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, that any appeal to the military institution has occurred in recent years by the Venezuelan opposition.

Until now, Maduro was confident in controlling the FANB, through the intermediary of General Vladimir Padrino López. And it's not that at one point, he did not experience ups and downs that made him nervous and that led him, on a number of occasions, to appear, unexpectedly, in the offices of the powerful Minister of Defense. From there, he became confident and the storm lasted until the next episode.

The leader of the revolution He trusted Padrino López, but he knows that the top manager is not an unconditional subordinate., although it may be loyal to you. He understood that he's not a military genuflexalthough this led him to scenes that were not very pleasing to him, as when he was pressuring him to the point that the general imposes more and more ideological and political weight every day on his speech.

Maduro always said that he had to rely on a trusted army, because of the importance of the armed forces, which, according to the Bolivarian Constitution, is the monopoly of arms. His first attempt was with the Chief Admiral Carmen Teresa Meléndez Rivas, current governor of the state of Lara, whom she appointed Minister of Defense on July 5, 2013.

Meléndez, who had close ties with the first lady, Cilia Flores, was a guarantee for Maduro. And this was the case for a while, though the admiral did not succeed in becoming a military leader or gaining ascendancy in the armed institution. Several things conspired against her; comes from one of the smaller components of the armed forces, besides that of the male-dominated FANB, the lady had to face the machismo.

It was useless for Meléndez to be deputy minister of education of the Ministry of Defense at the time of Hugo Chávez or commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, nor was it necessary for him to be in charge. promoted to the position of first Venezuelan Vice Admiral and appointed her Minister of the Order. of the Presidency. Maduro appoints her defense minister just as she is promoted to Chief Admiral, the first woman on both sides.

Maduro urgently needs a military relay and turns to his unconditional army general Carlos Alberto Osorio Zambrano, who had been appointed three times the Minister of Food. He returned to the barracks in January 2016 as commander of the Central National Strategic Defense Region (REDI), replacing MG Benavides Torres.

The pretext was to prepare him for entry into the military high command in September 2016, when he was appointed by the Inspector General of the Armed Forces to be appointed Minister of Defense. But Osorio Zambrano, not only fails to badume any leadership, but receives the deep rejection of this armed institution by the corruption scandals that have led to its pbadage through the Ministry of Food and the CASA Corporation.

This is how he is dismissed from the high command. A few weeks later, Maduro appointed him to the presidential office and then sent him into a minor cago in charge of a transport company in oblivion.

At that time, Padrino López, a promoter of 1984, had become the chief of the army with the largest promotion in the armed forces. And Maduro left him the responsibility of the institution while preparing his relays.

Appoint General (Ej) Iván Rafael Hernández Dala to the Directorate General of Military Counter-Intelligence (Dgcim) then simultaneously to the House of the Army as Head of the Presidential Guard of Honor; It is thus that he is preparing to bring him closer to the leadership of the armed forces and that he sent the 1985 promotion six months earlier for their home. Now he could repeat the scene with promotion 86 and speed up to 87 to place Hernandez Dala of promotion 88 at the doors of the Ministry of Defense.

But it's not just a problem of allied or loyal armies, It's also about leadership. Padrino López, who retired in 2014, dates from the last promotion that remains 30 years at the FANB, is currently responsible for the highest promotion, because as a result of the reform of the organic law of the armed forces the Officers remain 33 years in active exercise.

Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Constituent Assembly questioned, "a small group of destabilizers", nor the Minister of Communication, Jorge Rodriguez, "a small group of treacherous military," did not call him on Tuesday . This is the most striking image that the armed institution does not overwhelmingly support Nicolás Maduro, nor "profoundly Chaviste".

This small group was enough to undermine the military institution, to prevent it from reacting properly to what the Ministers of Defense and Communication have called a "coup d'etat". The hours pbaded without the government reacting, and three hours later, Diosdado Cabello appears in a phone call via Venezolana de Televisión to talk about what happened and explain that the soldiers of the National Guard and the officials of SEBIN had been taken away. deceived the movement led by Juan Guiadó near the air base of La Carlota.

He made an urgent appeal to "all the inhabitants of Caracas to come to the Miraflores Palace, motorized, militia, patrol cars and patrol boats". But only a small group attended the call, so that a few hours later, no one was in this center of executive power.

It was he who declared that he was in absolute calm in the country and that he had made contact with governors, officials of the Integrated Defense Operations Zones (ZODI) and Integrated Defense Regions (REDI).

Minister Padrino has published tweets, but Nicolás Maduro did not appear until several hours later.

Maduro said in a military act that "every day we will be marching" and that he seems to be filling it up, so he has changed his strategy to the Armed Forces, after two administration officials Donald Trump stated that the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Maikel Moreno, Minister Padrino López and Major General Hernández Dala had discussed the departure of Nicolás Maduro's power, but they withdrew at the last minute.

On Thursday, May 2, at a military ceremony in Fort Tiuna, in front of more than 4,500 soldiers, he stressed that "the loyalty of the FANB was loyal," baderting that "Yes, we are in a moral maxim of combat fighting to disarm any traitor, all golpista ".

On that day, Minister Padrino López said: "We have come to endorse our loyalty to the supreme command of the armed forces, which is the only president, President Nicolás Maduro".

In the heavy environment were the words of John Bolton President Trump's security advisor against two of the men surrounding Maduro at the time; Godfather next door and Hernandez Dala behind.

Perhaps the most significant is that Maduro gave the floor directly to the commander of the Commander of Strategic Operational Command (Ceofanb), Remigio Ceballos Ichaso, who took care to wear the uniform of the patriots and who, to the chagrin of the officers of the tribune, delivered a speech. commonplaces, almost on the verge of vulgarity and far from what a military leader should say in front of the troops.

Maduro went down to where the troop was, he wanted to hug them while he asked for a picture, in an attempt to empathize with the young soldier..

The next day, Friday, May 3, he ordered to concentrate the generalate at a meeting in Fuerte Tiuna. Maduro again met the military and said that he never thought of leaving the country and that he was ready to give his life for the revolution.

Yesterday, Saturday 4 May, the day started very early in El Pao, in the state of Cojedes, during a 24-day period organized by a group of 3,770 young people. "I wanted to go personally to the official officers to see this huge training camp in which you learn the tactical method of revolutionary resistance", where he warned them that "you are the admirals and generals of 2050". He urged them to study the Monroe doctrine against the Bolivarian doctrine.

He stressed that he was there because he wanted to "shake hands, see his physical, operational and military capability".

And I keep mentioning that he was accompanied by Minister Padrino López, the general commanders of the components and the militia, as well as the General Staff, the directors of the seven military academies and the rector. of the Bolivarian General Military University Felix Osorio.