Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday August 18 the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen in the country in response to «menaces» Americans in the face of the deployment of American military forces in the Caribbean. “This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen to guarantee the coverage of the whole national territory. Prepared, activated and armed militias »launched on public television Nicolas Maduro, whose United States has doubled the award for its capture at $ 50 million.
The Venezuelan militia founded by the late President Hugo Chavez, of which Maduro is the successor is, from an official source, made up of some 5 million people, civilians or reservists, and is placed under the army command. Evoking the “Roomed with extravagant, incredible and eccentric threats” From Washington, the Venezuelan Head of State also launched: “Rifles and missiles for peasant strength!” To defend the territory, sovereignty and peace of Venezuela […] Missiles and rifles for the working class, to defend our homeland ”. “We are also deployed in all the Caribbean […] which belong to us, in our sea, property, Venezuelan territory »had retorted the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed last week the deployment of American naval and air forces in the Caribbean for an anti-drug operation shortly after the administration doubled the award for Nicolas Maduro, accused of being part of a cartel. The United States prosecution announced Thursday that it had set $ 50 million the premium for the president’s arrest, charged by the American justice for drug trafficking.
“We reject the absurd and desperate actions announced by the Prosecutor’s office in the United States, manifestly illegal and without any real basis, outside the attempted aggression against the President […] Maduro, and against our rebellious and courageous people ”said the president of the assembly Jorge Rodriguez, reading a letter approved unanimously by the deputies, according to him. Like many other countries, the United States does not recognize the disputed re-election of the Venezuelan president either. The latter, with the support of the army and an administration under orders, had taken an oath for a third term of six years during a ceremony qualified as “Coup d’etat” by the opposition, which claims victory to the presidential election of 2024.
