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Venezuela conducts special exercise with its Armed Forces and militias in response to US military threat

The Venezuelan Armed Forces and militias are conducting a special exercise across the country this Saturday as part of the country’s preparations for the US military threat.

“Today, Saturday, October 4th, the day of Special Military Exercises. A full deployment: the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, the Bolivarian Militia, the 335 ADIs, and the 15,751 Popular Bases for Integral Defense (BPDI) are mobilized and assume their commitment.” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on his Telegram channel. “We will guarantee a happy and peaceful Christmas!” he concluded.

The drill comes after the US reported the destruction of a new boat sailing in the Caribbean, near the coast of Venezuela. As part of Washington’s military deployment in the region under the guise of combating drug trafficking.

“Venezuela has the right to peace.”

Previously, the Venezuelan president warned that his country will defend its territory with weapons if necessary. “Venezuela has the right to peace, to sovereignty, to its existence, and no empire in this world can take that away from it, can take it away,” he exclaimed on Thursday during the closing ceremony of the international conference “Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and the Territorial Dispossession of Western Imperialism.”

“If it is necessary to move from unarmed forms of struggle to armed forms of struggle, this people will do so. For peace, for sovereignty, and for the right to existence. Colonialism never again!” he emphasized.

On the same day, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López denounced the overflight of at least five US F-35 warplanes off the Venezuelan coast. “We are watching them, I want you to know that. And I want you to know that this does not intimidate us. It does not intimidate the people of Venezuela,” he warned.
  • In August, international media reported on a US military deployment in the southern Caribbean, supposedly to confront drug cartels. Meanwhile, US Attorney General Pam Bondi doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of the Venezuelan president on the never-substantiated charge of leading a “drug cartel.”
  • Following the US military deployment, foreign ministers from blocs such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) have called for respect for the region’s declaration as a zone of peace.
  • Maduro maintains that his country is the victim of “a multifaceted war.” Orchestrated by the US in the interest of bringing about “regime change.
  • Other regional leaders, such as Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba), Luis Arce (Bolivia), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), and Gustavo Petro (Colombia), believe there is no evidence to support the US accusation against Maduro. While the US’s desires are public to dominate strategic resources present in the Western Hemisphere

With information from RT in Spanish

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