The Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, Nicolás Maduro’s main supporter in power, launched a military operation to confront “internal and external enemies” that “with their threats and attacks” they seek to destabilize the country, according to a military statement.
Sitting on his exercise machine, Nicolás Maduro made the announcement to show that he still He has military strength and muscle. This is the Bolivarian Defense Shield 2025 that the high command will deploy during January 22 and 23 to face especially the protests prepared by the Venezuelan opposition and one hypothetical foreign intervention.
From his private gym, Maduro published on his social networks that the Bolivarian Shield is a “popular, military and police exercise of the year. We are going to defend borders, coasts, cities, vital elements for the country“, while justifying that the military deployment is carried out “to guarantee peace, national sovereignty, as well as true democracy”, while ordering the armed force to prepare “the rifles.”
The Maduro regime has been questioned by its fraudulent inauguration on January 10 of his third term without having certification, which has been described as a coup d’état and declaration of dictatorship both internally and externally.
Maduro forcibly prevented the winner of the July 28 elections, the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia could return to the country and be sworn in as established by the national constitution, which generated strong discontent among Venezuelans.
To confront social discontent and hypothetical international intervention plans, the Chavista regime, which He has been in power for 25 years, has launched the Bolivarian military shield whose main objective is to stop the protests which are scheduled for January 23.
Los Venezuelans commemorate January 23 like the day the dictatorship of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez fell in 1958. It is an anniversary that democrats and students celebrate with marches and mobilizations in the streets throughout the country.
Padrino López’s statement
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López issued a statement in which he talks about the military maneuvers of the Bolivarian Shield 2025 scheduled for the 22nd and 23rd in “defense of peace and democracy.”
Padrino López claims to be proud that “the entire nation has begun a new year marked by the triumph of democracy and institutions, evidenced and consolidated on January 10,” with the swearing-in of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
But not only internationally. but especially internally There is a conviction that the Armed Forces contributed to the execution of the Coup d’état to remain in power by not recognizing the electoral results that give Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner, analysts say.
Padrino López assures, in the statement, that “the internal and external enemies, in their frustration, they do not stop generating threats and attacks to cause anxiety and instability, but they will never achieve it.”
This new popular military police exercise will be executed at a superlative level in strategic, operational and tactical terms, optimizing in its different phases, the interoperability between organized people, military units and Citizen Security Bodies, deploying multiple weapons systems and more in synchronization. Mixed Rapid Reaction Units (URRA).
The military chief points out that this is how operations will be carried out to guarantee the military defense and internal order of the country, ensuring the functioning of basic services and the security of strategic installations, while at the same time we will make our cities and borders impregnable throughout the national geographical space.
General Padrino has his photograph taken with the military high command at Fort Tiuna during the preparations for the Bolivarian shield.
A maneuver to “increase social control and repression”
The Bolivarian shield “is not to defend the national soil and much less sovereignty; “They are not defensive operations, they are the increase in social control, repression and accentuation of State terrorism. Bolivarian Shield was created to defend a legal and legitimate government, not a usurper of power like Nicolás Maduro,” says a senior official of the army under anonymity.
The Maduro regime creates the so-called Bolivarian Shield, as a Territorial Defensive Operation Against the Invasion of the Military Forces. of the US and its allies. “That contemplated the ‘internal enemy’, as they come to consider the opposition, as well as the population that, although not armed, is considered an internal enemy due to collaboration.”
He explains that this is how it was planned to “execute defensive military operations against the enemy by land, sea and air, while increasing control, repression, surveillance, espionage, psychological operations, disinformation, state terrorism, judicial terrorism, arbitrary arrests, torture and/or murders”.
The Bolivarian Shield represents for the government, although illegal and illegitimate, preparation of a deployment, which occupies the attention of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, so that he considers those who voted against Nicolás Maduro as an internal enemy on 28J, which are the millions of Venezuelans who supported the option of Edmundo González Urrutia, says the senior official.