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Venezuelan Armed Forces launch exercise Bolivarian Shield 2025

Venezuelan Armed Forces launch exercise Bolivarian Shield 2025

Caracas, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) will carry out the Bolivarian Shield 2025 Exercise over the next two days to defend sovereignty and guarantee peace throughout the national territory.

The Strategic Operational Commander of the FANB, General in Chief Domingo Hernández, reported on Tuesday that the FANB is advancing in preparations “for its deployment throughout the country in the execution of the Bolivarian Shield, popular, military and police exercises.” Hernández recalled on Instagram that the maneuvers will be carried out this Wednesday and Thursday “for a Venezuela in peace, sovereign and democratic!”

This will be the first popular military-police exercise of this year in which participants will defend “borders, towns, coasts, cities and vital elements of the country,” President Nicolás Maduro announced last Sunday, and called for marching together “in perfect popular-military-police fusion” to “show that Venezuela has the power to live in peace, exercising its full sovereignty, in democracy and freedom.”

The Venezuelan Minister for Defense, General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino, said “the exercise will be developed with a superlative level in the strategic, operational, and tactical aspects.” He also declared the “unfathomable pride” that Venezuela has begun a new year marked by the triumph of democracy and institutionality. However, he warned that “internal and external enemies, in their frustration, do not cease to generate threats and aggressions to cause anxiety and instability, but they will never succeed.”

The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, announced last Monday at a press conference that the organization will actively participate in the military exercises. He said all Venezuelans who love their country are invited to the maneuvers. Cabello noted that the revolutionary militants and the Chavista people should take to the streets to defend the Bolivarian Revolution and to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the 1958 civil-military rebellion.

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