Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino during a ceremony in 2023. Photo: File photo.
This Monday, Venezuelan Minister for Defense Vladimir Padrino said that the Bolivarian Army has demonstrated in different circumstances that it is prepared to combat new threats from foreign powers.
Through a statement regarding the 203rd anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo, Minister Padrino stated that “in the wild savanna of Carabobo, the strident targets and the intense tremor of cavalry still resonate,” reported Venezuelan state news channel VTV.
“You can still feel the indomitable force of that group of soldiers led by General in Chief Simón Bolívar, who, from the top of Buena Vista Hill, suspiciously watched the deployment of the Spanish empire’s troops,” he added.
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The Minister of Defense stressed that the day in which the people became soldiers to “seal our freedom, sovereignty, and independence with blood and fire, lies the origin of the libertarian vocation, the revolutionary, anti-imperialist, popular, nationalist, and anti-oligarchic Army of ours.”
Padrino also recalled that this year, the bicentennial of the Battles of Junín and Ayacucho will be commemorated “with an eye toward Latin American unity and the construction of the Great Homeland.”
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Likewise, he added that the Army is deployed throughout the Territorial Defensive System and has managed to project itself as “a highly deterrent entity, committed to scientific-technological innovation, the modernization of its equipment, and the continuous training of its human talent, demonstrating in different circumstances that it is prepared to combat new threats from foreign powers that still intend to impose their chains on us.”
(Últimas Noticias) by María Eugenia Rodríguez
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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