00:00And we go now to Venezuela once again because Vladimir Padrino Lopez, the Chief of the Armed Forces, is giving statements in this enlistment day.
00:09We're looking at images from Venezuela at this moment.
00:13Let's recall that.
00:15Let's listen to Vladimir Padrino Lopez.
00:21So this is what has to do with our life history.
00:26We are in constant coordination with our commander-in-chief.
00:31We've been seeing the demonstrations in the street and the happiness of that working class, that class from the industries and the productive enterprises and all industry, the pedochemic industries,
00:46and what we are calling the combating corps of the Bolivarian militias that is guaranteeing the continuity of production in terms of and in times of locate and threats, in times of peace,
01:05but also in these times in which we need to assume a more determined posture in defense of our homeland.
01:13And this we are doing in the framework of this aggression, permanent aggression, that the United States is leading over Venezuela.
01:25Twenty-six years, practically, in which we have been confronting that U.S. imperialism.
01:34And this has already converted itself to a series of military strategy in nature of a siege.
01:44A siege, we have a lot of examples in Venezuela, also in other regions of South America, examples of siege around the world.
01:56That is a military strategy.
01:58The only difference is that today they are doing it with other instruments, sanctions, blockade, blocking us of the possibility of trading with other countries,
02:10blocking the systems to transfer money internationally, there are different systems that they do to carry out this siege.
02:21And this siege seeks to lead to an internal rupture that the people just give up and that the armed forces give up.
02:33And look at what we have been resisting and combating and continuing to combat, especially during the last ten years under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro.
02:44They haven't been able and they won't be able.
02:49Here is a standing people.
02:52This is a military fusion with the people that is here giving answers and facing the people every time and facing the world as well.
03:03And facing those imperialists, those who want to produce lies about us and many absurd things and narratives, 21st century and they are threatening the peoples that try to seek their own interests.
03:26Today it's Saturday, Saturday, Saturday 30th, and the people are out on the streets defending their independence as we've done it last week.
03:43And today we are even more organized.
03:47We have more enlistment points.
03:49The people know where to go to register and I see a great joy and next to the great indignation, also a great joy that we see it in the eyes of the youngsters and the elderly people, men and women of the Venezuelan people.
04:09So, we are here and the people are out on the streets, they're painting murals, they are playing with the kids and also teaching about our history, about Zamora and our leaders.
04:27That is the Venezuelan spirit in the heart of the people of Venezuela.
04:31We have been listening recently to those spokespersons who tried to carry out a coup d'estat here last year, saying that the military armed forces were loyal until we were not.
04:55That is an absolute, a perverse declaration and statement.
05:04So, what does this extremist, fascist opposition want?
05:08They do not.
05:10That's the way that they want to govern this country.
05:15Comparing what happened with Iraq in the year 2003 when they invaded that country with the excuse of massive arms of destruction.
05:29So, they're comparing what could happen here in Venezuela to the deployment of the U.S. army in Iraq.
05:38That's what they want.
05:39And they're saying that, that when those first bombs dropped, we are going to run away.
05:48And they do not, no, because they do not have that national feeling.
05:54They shouldn't even be calling themselves Venezuelans because they are anti-homeland.
06:00And we are, continue to be here, defending our project, our sovereignty, our dear homeland, and we will be standing up and victorious.
06:14And I continue to summon, as our commander-in-chief, the president, today it's Saturday 30th.
06:23Next week will already be September and more faces will come to complete this enlistment process.
06:32So, I invite the people of Venezuela to come here to the streets to raise your flags and raise your slogans and presenting to the world the strength and the unity that is here in Venezuela.
06:47A perfect union between the people, the military forces, the police forces.
06:52You see over there the generals standing here next to the people and painting the murals and just joining the people.
07:04And there are people who make fun of this.
07:06But this is just the symbiosis that we have in this, between the people and the armed forces.
07:14But do not get confused, the armed forces, in this moment, they are patrolling our territory in the Caribbean.
07:25We are deploying 15,000 troops in our western border in the agreement, zone of peace agreement with our neighbors.
07:40And we have listened to the announcement of President Gustavo Petro saying that he will do the same in Colombia.
07:48So, we have good things ahead, things to, that seeks to eradicate any criminal group, terrorist or armed group in the frontier in Venezuela.
08:02We know a lot about this, and we are just going to reinforce what we have been doing in Tachira, in Zulia.
08:12So, we are here, we are ready, we continue to be here and continue with the victory onward forever.
08:23We were listening to the statements of Vladimir Padrino Lopez during this enlistment day.
08:30And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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