The Bolivarian National Armed Forces of Venezuela rejects the coup plans called in recent weeks by a representative of the extreme right.
In a message to the nation -transmitted on a national chain- Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López asserted that the FANB has a fundamental role established in the Constitution.
“The FANB has a constitutional role to fulfill. It is not necessary for someone to use the Armed Forces. From those words, we want to tell you that the FANB is here, ready and willing to carry out the free and fair elections for the greatest expression of national peace,” said Padrino López.
Recently, the fugitive from justice, Antonio Ledezma, assured a foreign media outlet that the opposition member María Corina Machado will seek to provoke civil disobedience and a military insurrection in the country.
For these statements, last Monday, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, announced that an arrest warrant was issued against Ledezma for his statements that aim to "call death" and the confrontation between Venezuelans.
Padrino López expressed the willingness of the FANB to guarantee peace in the nation, in view of the upcoming elections.
The also Sector Vice President of Political Sovereignty, Security and Peace, asserted that the soldiers will be distributed in all voting centers, guaranteeing the security of the homeland.
“We are going to act in any circumstance that comes our way, we hope that the FANB's action is within the civic framework, because it is a civic act. The FANB is going to act in a civic way. Giving signs of unity ”, he pointed out.
Later, he read a statement in which he recalled that since 2014, approximately 20 conspiracy plans against the Homeland and against the President of the Republic and commander-in-chief of the FANB, Nicolás Maduro, have been dismantled.
“It is plain to see that the imperial pack and its subordinate allies, both along
internal and external of Venezuela, are resuming with greater momentum the script
familiar with interference, interventionism, incitement to hatred, and above all
everything, media manipulation through the manufacture of fake news and the dissemination
tendentious news, among other perverse mechanisms; who chase like
objective, polarize and fragment society once again in the face of the elections
presidential elections planned in the short term”, refers to the text read by Padrino López.
In this regard, the FANB asserted that "it will not allow us to fall into the polarizing and violent provocations orchestrated by those who want to subject us to scenarios of terror, anguish, and restlessness."
“We reiterate the call for peace, harmony, dialogue and reunion that allow us to set our beautiful and beloved nation on a splendid path of prosperity, harmony and greatness, preserving intact the inalienable right to be free, sovereign and independent. ”, concludes the text.
The commanders that make up the Integral Defense Strategic Region (REDI) also ratified their support for President Nicolás Maduro and assured that they would guarantee peace in each of their territories in order to provide security to each of the citizens.
In this regard, the commander of REDI Capital, Major General Johan Alexander Hernández Lárez, expressed "we are the sons of Bolívar and Chávez, we dedicate ourselves to the defense of the nation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela regardless of the vicissitudes we have to face, We belong to a specially professional military organization organized with the state to guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the nation, and ensure the integrity of the geographical space through military defense, cooperation, maintenance of internal order, and active participation in national development in our territory".
Likewise, it indicated that they have participated in operations against the GEDEONES, in the Cacique Maracay operation as well as in all the protection operations on the borders of the national territory, with active participation in the community military health and education brigades (Bricomiles).
"My Commander in Chief Nicolás Maduro Moros, count on all the soldiers of this integral defense region to support the people and their government in their daily effort to achieve stability and the strengthening of our beloved homeland, working with strength, constancy and sacrifice in resistance and revolution for the rebirth of the homeland, to the fulfillment of our military duties to consecrate the homeland of Guaicaipuro, Bolívar and Chávez, guaranteeing the greatest amount of social happiness possible for our people, and always building the political stability of economic recovery of the nation in socialism”.
For his part, the commander of the Central REDI, Major General Orlando Ramón Romero Bolívar; from the state of Aragua, he affirmed, "we raise our voices from Aragua Carabobo and Yaracuy to express our unwavering support as soldiers of the homeland, we are guarantors of sovereignty, unity and peace."
"Our oath to defend sovereignty, territorial integrity and democracy guides us in every action under your leadership, we have witnessed your firmness and determination to safeguard our fundamental principles, facing internal and external actions with courage and efficiency," he said.
He also highlighted, "today on behalf of each man and woman that makes up REDI Central we reaffirm our commitment of loyalty and support to our Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros, we are willing to defend democracy, social justice and the rights of our people.
He stressed that they will not allow interests outside the homeland to disturb the peace and security that has been built in the country.
"The REDI Central in perfect civic-military union we remain active participating throughout the national territory, in all the operations that they carry out to protect and defend our homeland," he said.
Likewise, the commander of the Western REDI, Admiral Alejandro Rafael Díaz Espinosa, expressed his support for President Nicolás Maduro, "who is currently facing war and the most criminal economic blockade of all time, driven by the interests of the imperial countries and their instruments".
He affirmed that this situation demands greater commitment and initiative to develop methods to confront these vicissitudes and guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the nation, ensuring the integrity of the geographical space through the defense of the state, cooperation and maintenance of internal order and active participation. of national development,
“We left materialized day by day through Operation Relámpago del Catatumbo and Cacique Manaure as an operational result of 49 clandestine airstrips destroyed, seizure of 104 tons of strategic material, 14,799 kg of marijuana, 29,915 kg of cocaine, and eight GEDOS dismantled in the region. ”, he detailed.
"We proclaim our loyalty, obedience, discipline and absolute subordination to our Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro CJ of the FANB", he stated.
Next, the commander of the Eastern REDI to Major General Juan Ernesto Sulbaran Quintero, expressed that "the men and women who make up the FANB of the territorial defense system express forceful and irrefutable repudiation of the infamous statements of political actors and opposition representatives, who acting like puppets under the protection of the North American empire and its grotesque and repetitive interventionist and interventionist methods, where they call for disobedience and the generation of violence in the country”.
He also expressed that the REDI Oriental, as a "firm and cohesive fundamental piece of the territorial defensive system, of the glorious, undefeated and dignified FANB in perfect harmony with the constitutional precepts enshrined in our Magna Carta, we are officially ready to fight without hesitation or reservations. to guarantee and maintain the sovereignty of the homeland, making it impregnable and free from any internal or external threat or from invading pressures that destabilize the peace and internal order of the Republic”.
He pointed out that the men and women of the Redi Oriental ratify today more than ever the "obviously Bolivarian, anti-imperialist and deeply Chavista" character of the military institution, heir to the glory of Bolívar and Chávez and of the heroes who gave us Homeland and freedom with it. We will continue to be guarantors of democracy, without contempt for the Constitution and the laws of the Republic”.
Likewise, the commander of REDI Los Andes, Major General Manuel Enrique Castillo Rengifo, expressed the frontal fight against the structured groups that generate violence, as well as the fight against drug trafficking, excellent results have been obtained in the seizure of narcotic substances in their different forms. modalities.
He affirmed that the essentially professional Bolivarian National Armed Forces, organized by the state to guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the nation, ensures the integrity of the geographical space through military defense, cooperation in maintaining internal order and participation in national development always in military civic union of the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez.
Similarly, the commander of the REDI Los Llanos Major General Lenin Lorenzo Villasmil highlighted the 200 years of battles that were fought during the independence process in the Venezuelan Llanos and that today the FANB will continue to defend the sovereignty of the territory.
"The FANB will continue working as it has been doing hand in hand with the people, in perfect civic-military function, it will continue under military honor, attached to the Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela and our President Nicolás Maduro, in the activation of the peace quadrants" .
He stressed that "in the FANB we will not allow any barbaric act that attacks our people and their institutions, a country is not built with violence or resentment, we will not accept that peace and sovereignty in this llanera region be violated."
He stressed "that this announcement is a message of commitment and loyalty to our people of Venezuela and that they know that they can count on our soldiers with constitutional principles, be sure that we will continue fighting for a free and independent sovereign nation that seeks peace, but prepared in arms for the defense of the territory”.
The commander of the REDI Guayana to Major General Rafael David Prieto Martínez, explained that military operations Guara, Roraima and Autana are carried out by land, air and rivers where 624 motorized pumps have been destroyed, 81 illegal mining camps, 37 thousand liters of fuel seized , more than 18 tons of logistics supply.
Likewise, he informed that to date 8.879 people who were illegally in the Yapacana National Park have been evacuated, also in perfect civic-military union, the Bricomiles continue with the restoration and conditioning of educational institutions to provide well-being to all the Guyanese people. .
"We tell the entire world that from the REDI Guayana the FANB will never accept orders from any government with a foreign power and from any authority that does not come from the sovereign decision of the people, and will continue to be deployed throughout the country in the fight against the TANCOL groups and illegal mining in the different operations that are carried out in the territory for the maintenance of peace and the tranquility of all the Venezuelan people”, affirmed the Commander.
For his part, the commander of the Insular Maritime REDI, Admiral Ashraf Suleiman Gutiérrez, expressed "today all the members of this strategic region solemnly declare before the people of Venezuela our absolute loyalty and subordination to our CJ and Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian Socialist and Anti-imperialist Revolutionary process, chosen as the sovereign government system with the people in legitimate and sovereign free elections”.
He affirmed that "as we approach an electoral process, pseudo-free actors appear, demagogues seeking to destabilize and subvert man, following the same scripts of the diffuse war imposed by foreign powers and economic groups, especially from the United States of America, which They only seek to satisfy economic interests, to seize our resources using these lackeys who have abandoned the democratic principle and have opted for the path of violence, staining the streets with blood, we are not going to allow it,” he said.
