Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López has announced the successful completion of the "Independence 200" military exercises, describing them as the most comprehensive in the country's history. The drills involved 200,000 personnel across all military branches, including regular forces, militia, and police, with exercises focusing on command coordination and ballistic missile deployment. Minister Padrino stated these preparations are a direct response to U.S. military deployments in the Caribbean, emphasizing that Venezuela maintains a permanent defensive posture. He reported 90% public support for these measures and reiterated Venezuela's commitment to peace while vowing to defend national sovereignty against any external aggression.
00:00Hello, join us as we go live to Venezuela today the Defense Minister of the country, Vladimir Padrino López, is set to offer a balance of today's command and also control and communications exercise that was held throughout the country but especially in the country.
00:30Let's listen.
01:00Sometimes you cannot see it.
01:02Today our commander-in-chief at midnight ordered us, as he is used to, to make a deployment, a drill on the framework of this Independence 200 plan.
01:18To high the level, because we have to remember we have done some different categories drills.
01:26We started with calling the people from Venezuela, an effective calling.
01:34With a popular, notorious effervescence on the streets, registering on the Malaysia.
01:41The Malaysia went to the headquarters.
01:44We went to the communities.
01:46Last week we were sharing with the same people on that line of unity, national unity.
01:52Facing just the election and the popular consultation, all this is union for the country.
02:03That is why there is not pause and there won't be a pause.
02:07We are going to keep on to prepare ourselves to defend the country.
02:16In all ways, whatsoever the threat is, the intensity, it doesn't matter, the proportion, for anyone.
02:25That is why we have different scenarios, different hypotheses.
02:30We started with the superior mayor staff almost daily.
02:37The military threat that is deployed on the Caribbean, not only to Venezuela, but all the Caribbean and the Latino American region.
02:47I was saying that this is a heightened, because every day we are going to optimize.
02:53We have done some of the maneuver campaign in Paro Island.
03:00Those were campaign maneuvers.
03:02Exercises, drills with the...
03:06Desconcentration of means, drills with administration of disasters.
03:13We have done all that kind of drills and there are more to come to optimize the national state, the national state, the army on one side, the people on the other, the militia on the other, the security organs, the police, the rigged systems, all the systems, all the state systems to face an aggression.
03:42And aggression from the North American enemy, if they have to.
03:47It deals with it.
03:52That is, the command, control, communications, the different commanders of the defensive system, from regions, from zones, operative zones, which are in front of this deployment.
04:09They are in their position, different positions, with their officers, looking for the vitality of command and control, not to lose it in case of an aggression against Venezuela.
04:26Command and control, command and control, to lead the whole nation, the people, to organize the people.
04:33Even when our commander has set and commanded, he has first tell which are the tasks we have to do in the midst of any particular aggression, local or a big scale.
04:49So, the national Bolivarian force are with a high moral.
04:59We have seen, we are doing what we like to do, what we know how to do.
05:06It is high, the level of morality.
05:10The soldier, the soldier, Venezuelan soldier, its official commanders, superiors, are doing what they learn at the academies.
05:20They are doing what they learn in the capacitation units.
05:25They are doing what they learn in the training school, to guarantee the peace in the country.
05:32So that this drill, in spite of more than that, to study, to get ready, it implies the deployment of the means, ballistics means.
05:51We have called it a superior phase, because it takes dreams that we have done, but in an integrated way.
06:02That's the vision of this.
06:03And we are going to do it today.
06:05We are going to do it tomorrow.
06:08When we are going to make a balance, we have to say also that all the iterations organs are working on.
06:18Today, casually, the National Assembly, they are talking out about the final phase, about this special law for integrated commons for the defense, as the name is going to have.
06:37What does that mean?
06:38That the state, as such, its institutions are going to be integrated to the armed fight.
06:49So, there is a line that is going to be in charge in all that is economy, production, all that is the things that internal order, the protection of the basic services, and the fighting that is for the Bolivarian Army.
07:11All is a big net that we have to articulate, and that we are optimizing every day, every time we make a drill of this nature.
07:22So, there we have deployed 200,000 soldiers in all the territory for this drill.
07:30And I have to say that this is not going to undermine the control of what we are doing in strategic – we are fighting against all threats.
07:48The drug trafficking terrorists, the ones that want to operate, are trying to operate in our territory.
07:58We are giving a proper answer.
08:01And the people from Venezuela have to know that Venezuela is covered, protected, defended by the Bolivarian forces,
08:11leader by the Commander-in-Chief Nicolás Maduro Moros.
08:18Well, all the threat continues, and the South Commander has resigned.
08:31So, are they fracturing?
08:34Well, what happened with the Commander of the South Command, I have no details.
08:40It is too crazy to speak about it.
08:43But I am sure that – I can say this with responsibility, but I am sure that inside, in the U.S. forces,
08:57there are big contradictions that they see a different reality that is different to what they were created for.
09:09I think that the United – the forces of the United States are being used as mercenaries to kill.
09:17They have said that – their speakers, they have said, we are going to be deployed in the world to kill, to assassinate.
09:25That's what they are doing here.
09:26They are assassinating people.
09:28Being or not narcotrafficking, they are helpless people.
09:36And killing without any trial.
09:39It has had a reject, international reject, only in the International Forum,
09:48in the United Nations, in all multilateral organism, human rights.
09:55But also, inside the U.S., there is a reject, a notorious reject against this disproportional use,
10:07illegal use of the military forces of the U.S. against the people from the Caribbean
10:14and against the peace in the region, Latin American region.
10:18I think that, I think, like in the U.S. say, they have to the military forces from the U.S.A.
10:25I always speak to the people from the U.S.A. that this is something that is absurd,
10:31contrary to the morality, to the civility of what is supposed to be installed in this world from the 21st century,
10:44to go against the war, against violence, against genocide, against killing kids.
10:52So, we reject that.
10:56And I think that inside the U.S.A., there is a reject, too, against the barbarism,
11:02the imposition of the, by force, changing regimes,
11:08the government in all the world, and imposing by force, and imposing to democratic models.
11:19So, we, sovereignly, we say that we defend our independence, our self-determination.
11:27They have to overcome the internal crisis.
11:31We are ready to develop our democracy, our strength with cohesion and unity.
11:43And in spite of that, a strong state to answer any attack against Venezuela.
11:51General, that's what you mentioned was also being known in these four summits of the Caribbean countries.
12:01There was a document with more than 50 points that they call this region as a peace zone,
12:07and defend the multilateralism.
12:09There are more nations, people, that call for peace against one nation.
12:15There is, you see the world, that is effervescent.
12:21Big, powerful countries are saying, are calling that they are against this aggression,
12:28this intimidation, this threat, making dirty the Caribbean waters with hate,
12:41the intention to make the Caribbean Sea a sea to the U.S. interests.
12:51The world is not seeing that with good eyes.
12:54In the big, the other powerful countries, the big forums, United Nations,
13:00the Commission for the Human Rights have said, again, that they are against this situation.
13:06And here in Venezuela, the reject is over the 90%.
13:15It goes over the 90%.
13:18All the people against, people is against this aggression on Venezuela.
13:25These fascists, they pretend to make policy in Venezuela, calling for invasion to Venezuela.
13:38They do not exist for us.
13:40They are not Venezuelan.
13:42They themselves, they lost their nationality.
13:46They lost their nationality.
13:47That is a reject, unanimous in the world against an aggression and against what they are pretending
13:57to do to be like the police of the world.
14:01And we in Venezuela, here in Venezuela, we are firm with the Bolivarian ideas, independence,
14:08liberty and sovereignty for our people.
14:15Just right now, this phase so important is activating.
14:20This is a continual situation.
14:22There is no pause.
14:24Since it was announced and it was prepared and done, this deployment on the Caribbean with
14:34ship missiles aiming to Venezuela, the responsibility of the chief state, as a supreme leader of the
14:44nation, the president of the country, he ordered to prepare the nation to face this aggression.
14:54Because this aggression is not only is faced with the consciousness or the love to country,
15:01but with the national union.
15:03And that is what the president has called a big national union of all sectors in the country
15:09to face this horrible thing that they want to instrument against the Venezuelan people.
15:20We love peace.
15:22We love deeply peace.
15:24We don't want war, not here or not in any part of the world.
15:29But if they touch Venezuela, just go through the street, go through the headquarters,
15:38to the militia units.
15:41And you will see a people that is ready to defend this country till death.
15:46These are declarations of Vladimir Padrino, general in chief, making a balance of what has
15:54been after a few hours this superior phase was activated.
15:59We are live at this hour to Venezuela.
16:02Defense Minister of the country, Vladimir Padrino López.
16:05He is offering statements, he is offering a balance on today's command control of communications
16:10exercise throughout the country in the framework of Independence 200 plan.
16:14In this scenario, the minister assured this was a successful exercise because of the broad participation
16:20that proved the national cohesion where also there will be no passes in the defence of the nation.
16:26This is what he said.
16:28This is all for the moment.
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