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Statement by Venezuela’s Minister of Defense, Padrino López. teleSUR
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00:00:00Someone's sacrifice, making deep reflections and exposing himself to the judgment of the people of Venezuela of that time.
00:00:18And Bolivar used to say, he ended with something that closed forever the idea that has become infinite.
00:00:32It's the constant to obtain victory.
00:00:42That's how Alberto Simon Bolivar concluded with those reflections that I always welcome our brothers in arms to read and reflect and debate on them.
00:00:54To put them in context and also to apply them in parallel to the situation that today we are experiencing in Venezuela.
00:01:06So dear brothers, we have gathered here today, Venezuelan people, to report on the latest actions of the Bolivarian forces on the territory.
00:01:20You know, our commander in chief denounced explicitly, with details, the U.S. deployment in the Caribbean Sea.
00:01:34The whole deployment, aiming at Venezuela, of U.S. destroyers, the use of drones, the use of helicopters that have taken off from the decks of those warships.
00:01:58We have been observing all of that from here, from Venezuela.
00:02:04We are observing because we are a people that is vigilant, that is on alert.
00:02:10The people is not scared, is not afraid, but is in constant alert, vigilant of all situations that can attempt against our security and against our sovereignty.
00:02:26That's the facts.
00:02:31These are the facts that come from years back.
00:02:34I was listening to our Supreme Commander Hugo Chavez in a video, speaking on the same subject.
00:02:41And this has been a few years back now.
00:02:46Our commander Chavez was already announcing back then that they were already trying to describe us as a drug state.
00:02:58And Commander Chavez replied that we are but a victim of drug trafficking from the production that is made in Colombia for the drug cartels in Colombia.
00:03:08We are victims of the armed groups that came to be amid the struggles for social justice on the other side in Colombia.
00:03:21victims.
00:03:22We are not the epicenter.
00:03:25But it would seem that the communication media, the imperial communication media, the spokesperson of the far right, they tried to paint Venezuela as if it was the problem.
00:03:40They tried to paint Venezuela as if the issue of the armed groups created in Colombia is a problem from Venezuela, that we give them shelter in Venezuela, that we supposedly protect them here in Venezuela.
00:03:59They are always putting blames irresponsibly on other states, in this case in Venezuela, a neighbor of Colombia.
00:04:10The same happens with drug trafficking.
00:04:12We do not produce drug.
00:04:14We are tired of saying all this day.
00:04:17It's getting tiresome to repeat so many times the same thing.
00:04:21We are not producers.
00:04:22We are not consumers.
00:04:24Our consumption in Venezuela is very little compared to the consumption of European countries in the United States.
00:04:37And we know that in Venezuela, coca leaves are not sown.
00:04:46We were saying yesterday that we had an ongoing operation, Operation Sierra, to determine the non-existence of crops on the border area.
00:04:59And if there were, we will act accordingly, very quickly.
00:05:07That's why the UN reports themselves that we are a region, a country free of illegal crops.
00:05:21So also the issue of drug trafficking, they want to put it in Venezuela as an absurd narrative.
00:05:28We were recently listening authorities, so that we don't have to mention the names, from the United States, of the US government.
00:05:38That they did not care about what the UN had to say.
00:05:43That they did not care at all for international law.
00:05:47So where are we?
00:05:50Where are we?
00:05:51In what world are we living?
00:05:54The world must be definitely must be remade.
00:05:58We must bring it to balance and promote and strengthen the United Nations.
00:06:09The government and President Xi Jinping, recently in the Shanghai Corporation Forum, he said it, a new governance.
00:06:19But not a governance for take over of the resources of other countries.
00:06:25No, it's not a governance to colonize other countries.
00:06:30It's not a governance, it's not an imperial governance.
00:06:33It's a governance for peace, for balance, as Simone Bolivar would say, in world balance, of a deep respect for internet law.
00:06:46Deep respect for the sovereignty of the people, to the self-determination of the peoples.
00:06:53So to these gentlemen of the US government, they don't care at all what the UN has to say.
00:07:01For them the UN does not exist.
00:07:06And they want to do whatever they want in the world.
00:07:11In their desperation, in their desperate race to survive and to be able to give power to the unipolar hegemonic world that they want to impose on the world.
00:07:25So of that we can talk a lot.
00:07:29Dear brothers and colleagues of the Bolivar National Armed Forces, you must remember that doctrine of national security in the United States.
00:07:42That saw us as a police, that they pretended that the armed forces of what they called the backyard would be for the control of the internal order and to fight drug trafficking.
00:07:59And of course, to contain the influence of the Soviet Union in this hemisphere.
00:08:09So they have always seen this, they've always had this idea.
00:08:13Contention of communism in Latin America, respect for human rights, drug trafficking.
00:08:23And those are the plots, their pseudo-democracy completely degraded, the liberal democracy.
00:08:34That's their patterns and the excuses and the plots and the subterfuges they make.
00:08:40So the concept of national security, and with the school for the Americas in Panama, that was supposedly for cooperation in theory, for the cooperation in the hemisphere.
00:08:58It ended up being a school to teach how to annihilate, torture, all those that did not align with the interests of the United States.
00:09:13And that's where those famous plans came, the Condor Plan in South America to pursue and assassinate political leaders of the left, progressive political leaders, Operation Charlie here in Central America.
00:09:34And the armed forces that began to teach them, and the armed forces that began to be alienated with the schools of the Americas, to teach them in counterinsurgency.
00:09:47This means that their goal was to see their own people as an inner enemy, the techniques of counterinsurgence.
00:10:01And that, of course, that's what the United States wanted, to align and turn their backyard and armed forces in an instrument for their interest.
00:10:14And the Caribbean Sea, of course, a sea, those islands that are in the Caribbean Sea, are put an appendix.
00:10:27That's how it was referred to, they are an appendix to the United States.
00:10:30In the 90s, they wanted to do here under the administration of Bill Clinton, and the government of Rafael Cardera, may he rest in peace.
00:10:48They pretended to create an alliance so that airplanes and naval ships could go over our territorial sea and airspace with the excuse of combating drug trafficking.
00:11:13Can you imagine that?
00:11:15Can you imagine that?
00:11:17They almost succeeded.
00:11:20And it did not succeed because in 1998, that leader came to be our leader, the eternal leader, Commander Hugo Chavez.
00:11:38With his ideology and clear vision of building a true revolution, a true geopolitical rebellion to prevent hegemonism from the United States.
00:11:57That fact that airplanes from the United States come and sail on a territorial sea and airplanes to flight over airspace, we must say that the armed forces resisted at that moment.
00:12:17We must responsibly say this, that the armed forces resisted these plans, but it did not succeed in the end, things that Commander Chavez got into power with his political revolutionary project to defend at all costs our sovereignty, our independence and territory integrity.
00:12:39So, well, we wanted to go over different parts of the national territory.
00:12:46I want to interact with Major Jose Gregorio Martinez, Commander of the Strategic Region Integral Defense Los Andes.
00:13:02Major Jose Gregorio Martinez, Commander of the Commander of the Commander of the Area of the National Guard, Tachira.
00:13:09So, let's listen to all that has been done to fulfill all the tasks that we have.
00:13:31To protect our economy, the attacks against drug criminal groups, whatever their names may be, and of course, all the important tasks in the struggle that we have against drug trafficking.
00:13:46Let's first listen to Mayor General Martinez Campos to see what he has for the Venezuelan people.
00:13:56Chavez lives, my general in chief from the Strategic Region of Los Andes.
00:14:03We find ourselves in the Point of Attention for Citizens, in Perfect Civil-Military Police Fusion.
00:14:12I am accompanied by Division General Michel Vallavares, the Commander of the Tachira area, Division General Commander of the National Guard in Tachira, and Mayor Commissioner and Commander in the Region Los Andes.
00:14:35We are going to provide a report, my general in chief in this moment, of all the results of the operations that we have carried out here in Tachira, in regards to the issue of seizure of drugs, Operation Iron Fist, and for that I am going to give the word to Division General Miguel.
00:14:56Chavez lives, my commander, the Bolivar National Armed Forces, in Perfect Popular Military Civic Fusion, deployed in the Binational Area of Peace, number one, all across the borderline, in the most active border in South America, that communicates the peoples of Venezuela and Colombia, in all 29 municipalities, and the over 11 countries,
00:15:24and the over 11,000 square kilometers that comprises the Tachira State, in the four binational bridges where we are deployed with eight tactical units, 34 posts for attention to the citizenship and to guarantee peace of citizens and to avoid the passing of illegal drugs, eight border posts, all to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
00:15:53Through which we have obtained the following results regarding the fight against drug trafficking and the fight against smuggling, marked in the operations of Iron Fist, highlighted in the last weeks, we increased these seizures to reach a total until today, September 8th, the following.
00:16:19A tonne, or 1.7 tons of different drugs, over 900 kilograms of cocaine, over 700 kilograms of marijuana, 39 kilograms of other kinds of drugs.
00:16:42This became the biggest seizure of synthetic drugs, and also the seizure of many precursor substances, all thanks to the commitment of our troops to avoid at all costs that our country be used as a space for drug trafficking.
00:17:03984 citizens have been detained, over 90 vehicles have been seized for the public ministry, while neutralizing several modus operandi, of hiding the merchandise in different places.
00:17:22107.
00:17:23990 citizens have been replaced by drug trafficking.
00:17:24109.
00:17:25109.
00:17:26109.
00:17:27109.
00:17:28109.
00:17:29109.
00:17:30109.
00:17:31109.
00:17:32109.
00:17:52in smuggling actions and over in over 400 operations hundreds of different
00:18:07fuels have been seizure and also different materials as cement copper and
00:18:11aluminum different security operations over 50 mercenaries have been detained
00:18:16and several criminal groups have been dismantled or 190 firearms have been
00:18:26seized and destroyed also thousands of different caliber ammunitions have been
00:18:32seized 14 drones have been seized as well as free optical sites over 46,000 US
00:18:48dollars have been seized over 300,000 were fake dollars have been seized and all
00:18:55these operations have taken place in the framework of respect for the human rights
00:19:01and in the mandate to protect the Venezuelan people and the
00:19:05constitution of the country my commander I want to highlight there are toucher a
00:19:09state borders with the northern department of Santander one of the most
00:19:14violent in the neighboring country while our state thanks to the policy of
00:19:18security promoted by the national government regional governments in
00:19:22perfect military civic public fusion we can say today that toucher is one of the
00:19:28safest states in Venezuela commander our land we take care of it we preserve it
00:19:35Venezuela's united for peace prosperity and sovereignty because to doubt will be to
00:19:45betray our homeland in Venezuela we don't so we do not produce and we do not
00:19:50consume any kind of illicit drugs no Empire can come here to touch our sacred soil we
00:19:58continue the legacy of our commander supreme commander Rafael Chavez Fría under the
00:20:04wise leadership of our commander-in-chief Nicolás Maduro Moros and the
00:20:09guidelines of my general-in-chief Vladimir Padrino Lopez we continue to build the
00:20:19sovereign homeland honoring the legacy of our liberators from this land of Tachira we say
00:20:29to Venezuela and the world that the homeland will not lost will not be lost in our hands
00:20:35Chavez lives and the homeland continues well thank you very much a very important report that you
00:20:44presented to the Venezuelan people because in turn interior order is something that we
00:20:51must pay attention to remember the world comes in power the meter is threat unprecedented
00:20:58military threat that is right now deployed in the Caribbean Sea aiming at Venezuela and in
00:21:06power all these actions that imperialism is doing to try to destabilize from within the institutions to
00:21:18trigger division within the Bolivar national forces and to trigger also traitors to come out
00:21:27we must also consolidate the stability of the country hundreds of fronts at the same time so I'm gonna go to
00:21:46the map right now so that you have an idea that it comes to the creation of the
00:21:57attention points to for citizens that are in place by the Bolivar National Guard all
00:22:04across the territory all they do a very important work in this sense of maintaining order I'm gonna go to
00:22:15the map very quickly if you see here on this map and this point if you are
00:22:27able to see it from the camera all these dots are post of integral attention what integral because they are
00:22:41specialized to take care of any kind of situation smuggling drugs to detect any suspect on the national
00:22:52territory to detect the transportation of explosives in national territory these are points of attention for citizens to attend to them but if there is a situation that has to be taken care of from a
00:23:09from prosecution point of boy well the Bolivar National Guard is present is also a branch of our Bolivar National Armed Forces that supports the military actions according to the Constitution but it's also in charge of preserving public order to my right is the commander of the Bolivar National Guard
00:23:34National Guard Helios Estrada Paredes who can give us more details of what I have already said on the action of these four hundred and fifteen points of attention to citizens and what are they doing right now
00:23:46General Chief very good morning in relations in relations in the framework of the Operation Bolivarian Shield the Bolivarian National Guard is currently deployed across the national territory in this case fulfilling the constitutional mandate established in our Constitution which is to safeguard the public order so we are working in four hundred and fifteen points of attention to the citizens
00:24:02distributed distributed across the nation we have obtained very important results because it contributes to the tranquility and peace of Venezuelans and we have done a face-to-face struggle against all those people that want to enter our territory to win merchandise and
00:24:31Weapons also paramilitaries and foreigners also paramilitaries and foreigners and mercenaries mercenaries that we have detected and we have detained on those points and we are going to allow itself to provide these results at the national level
00:24:50everything that has to do with the strategic material that has to do with the strategic material that has been seized we were able to seize over thirteen thousand tons of scrap metals, copper, iron, and aluminum, two hundred and over two hundred thousand liters of fuel within the Operation Iron Fist
00:25:17Operation Iron Fist we have smoking of food and medicine, in terms of food we have seized 250 tons of food and medicines in different types of medicine, two hundred and fifteen thousand medicines. Also regarding drug trafficking, not only in the struggle on the fields, in the logistic centers that we are carrying out, we have seized in these different points of
00:25:47attention to citizens 14 tons of attention to citizens 14 tons of drugs of different ways, also precursors as well 14 tons of precursor that works for the processing of cocaine. In terms of citizen security and peace quadrant mission, we were able to seize 14 kilograms of explosive, 895 firearms, over 20,000 ammunition and 43 grenades, hand grenades.
00:26:16That can be used to carry out terrorist actions. Also protecting the environment, something very important for the National Guard, we were able to seize 240 cubic meters of wood and a thousand eighty protected species. We have captured over 200 people that had an arrest warrant and also hundreds of vehicles as well.
00:26:45Right now, right now we are currently deploying all these different attention points for the citizens to continue fulfilling our mission which is to protect our people.
00:26:52Thank you very much. I really explained the task of the Bolivar National Guard, which is an armable work, its professionalism, its way of carrying out its actions and its way of respecting citizens. No rights are being violated against the people.
00:26:59Only facing crime against mercenaries and against mercenaries and against mercenaries and delinquents.
00:27:06And against all terrorists that want to disturb the peace of Venezuela.
00:27:13I have here in my hands, commander-in-chief has been showing this.
00:27:20been showing the manuals, the doctorate of the strategic command of operation that we have been perfected.
00:27:27over time.
00:27:28If there is something that has to be dynamic, especially the doctorate of the strategic command of operation that we have been perfecting over time.
00:27:34If there is something that has to be dynamic, especially the doctorate of our Bolivar National Armed Forces, because situations change quickly.
00:27:41especially in the current times with technology that marks the pace that marks the pace, accelerates the processes, and accelerates the processes.
00:27:48It's been showing the manuals, the doctorate of the strategic command of operation that we have been perfecting over time.
00:27:53If there is something that has to be dynamic, especially the doctorate of our Bolivar National Armed Forces, because situations change quickly.
00:28:03Especially in the current times with technology that marks the pace, accelerates the processes,
00:28:10and accelerates change.
00:28:12I have here in my hand the manual of the fundamentals of public order of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces.
00:28:31And this is something that all the armed forces must fulfill,
00:28:39but very importantly,
00:28:42but also very importantly to our Bolivar National Guard.
00:28:45Everything is here.
00:28:46No one is improvising anything.
00:28:49All that our commander in chief has announced,
00:28:52from the calling,
00:28:54to the enlistment,
00:28:56to all these that we are doing right now,
00:28:59where we have gone from operation in times of peace,
00:29:05to high operation actions in these moments and this juncture.
00:29:10Everything has a guideline, a doctrine.
00:29:13So, we are not improvising.
00:29:17We are doing a serious work to prepare the country.
00:29:24More threats, more preparation.
00:29:29More threats, more preparation.
00:29:32So, thanks to the Bolivar National Guard.
00:29:35Thank you very much to the General Mayor and Commander of Los Andes for that report.
00:29:43And well, let's go then to a second report,
00:29:53a second briefing from the territory.
00:29:57This time from the wonderful deployment that we have carried out under the order of our commander's chief
00:30:06in the bi-national area of peace,
00:30:08in the state of Zulia.
00:30:11We have there Division General Gabriel Enrique,
00:30:14commander of the operation areas of integral defense, Zulia,
00:30:19in La Chique de Perija.
00:30:21So, it's ready to give us, as well, a report,
00:30:26so that the people of Venezuela knows what's being done in the framework of that great operation.
00:30:32It's a great deployment.
00:30:34I explained this yesterday.
00:30:36Our commander-in-chief ordered to reinforce the north in La Guajira.
00:30:42And that deployment of reinforcement began yesterday at 6 p.m. local time.
00:30:52So, let's listen to the Division General so that he can explain to the people what we have right now
00:30:59of that great deployment in the western border with Colombia
00:31:05and to know all the actions that the armed forces are carrying out in the territory in that region.
00:31:11Chabel leaves, my general chief. Good morning.
00:31:16This day, September 8th, we find ourselves in the municipality of Machique, Perija,
00:31:22continuing with the actions of drug against the...
00:31:30We continue with the anti-drug trafficking actions established in the strategic operation
00:31:36Bolivarian shield and relampago and iron fist,
00:31:40with the active participation of our quick response units
00:31:44and all the means and forces available to reinforce our strategic positions
00:31:50in perfect military-civic police fusion.
00:31:54We report on the results of the last seven days in which during labors of patrols reconnaissance,
00:32:06we were able to reach important results to guarantee peace and security of the people of the region of Zulia,
00:32:18regarding the struggle against drug trafficking through the deployment of a quick response unit.
00:32:34We succeeded to find different materials of criminal interest hidden on the ground that belong to the structure of criminal groups.
00:32:48After carrying out drill operations with specialized machinery,
00:32:52we were able to seize three speedboats designed for the transportation of illegal substances,
00:33:0015 engines, high power engines, 20 plastic storage containers,
00:33:144 firearms, 9mm, over a thousand rounds of different calibres, 16 magazine, 7 assault rifles,
00:33:28also in the struggle against drug trafficking.
00:33:31Through the different points of attention to citizens deployed along the territory of the state of Zulia,
00:33:37we were able to seize 8,029 grams of cocaine, 1,200 grams of marijuana.
00:33:45A citizen has been detained who was going in a public transport vehicle from the Colombian Republic,
00:33:55and once an interview was carried out and an x-ray was made,
00:34:00we were able to witness strange bodies within her body,
00:34:06and we carried out the lawful medical procedures to remove the package of drugs.
00:34:16Also in the execution of the iron fist plant,
00:34:21and the control of the tick material,
00:34:24we were able to seize 3,050 cigarette packs,
00:34:291,300 ibuprofen blisters,
00:34:33300 litres of chlorozepam,
00:34:384 vehicles,
00:34:438 trucks,
00:34:442 bikes,
00:34:45in Venezuela,
00:34:46we don't sow,
00:34:48we don't distribute,
00:34:49we don't process illicit substances,
00:34:52Venezuela is respected,
00:34:55Chave lives,
00:34:57the homeland continues,
00:34:59loyal always,
00:35:00traders never,
00:35:02we shall win.
00:35:04Well thank you very much Division General Javier Magallanes.
00:35:10This operation has to be very efficient,
00:35:16very effective,
00:35:20because we've always had there attempts of sowing the coca leaf in La Sierra de Perijas,
00:35:33places that we are not doing reconnaissance to see if there are any.
00:35:37As I was saying at the beginning,
00:35:39this is a yearly operation,
00:35:42two times a year,
00:35:45to determine if there are crops of coca or marijuana,
00:35:52although marijuana is very difficult to grow there,
00:35:55but the coca leaf in Perijas.
00:35:58Right now we are carrying out an operation,
00:36:01with the anti-drug command of the Bolivar National Guard,
00:36:05the strategic command,
00:36:08always there in all that front,
00:36:13they have tried,
00:36:15the tankhole groups,
00:36:17the terrorist drug trafficking armed groups of Colombia,
00:36:22are crossing the borderline,
00:36:25without the consent of the Bolivarian Venezuelan government,
00:36:30without our permission.
00:36:33Our commander Chavez,
00:36:35who was always very clear on this,
00:36:38our commander-in-chief Nicolás Maduro has been very clear
00:36:42on this.
00:36:43And the Bolivar National Armed Forces,
00:36:46constitutionally fulfilling the constitutional mandate,
00:36:51cannot allow any group in Venezuelan territory,
00:36:56whatever its name may be,
00:36:59not a single armed group.
00:37:04That would be a violation to our sovereignty.
00:37:07Do they cross?
00:37:09Yes, they do.
00:37:10Because,
00:37:11it's a very difficult border,
00:37:13but we are waiting for them here,
00:37:15and then we expel them,
00:37:17and neutralize them.
00:37:19So,
00:37:21it's a daily constant effort.
00:37:24It's another of the actions,
00:37:30another of the narratives that they try to create against Venezuela,
00:37:34that we are protectors of the armed groups in Colombia,
00:37:37that we provide them with asylum.
00:37:39Here in Venezuela,
00:37:40Venezuela what has done is a great effort to achieve peace in Colombia.
00:37:44From the direct action of commander Chávez,
00:37:49years now,
00:37:50years ago.
00:37:52And also the action of our commander-in-chief,
00:37:57not only when he was a foreign minister,
00:37:59but also now as president of the republic,
00:38:02a constant effort to contribute to peace with Colombia,
00:38:07because peace for Colombia is peace for Venezuela,
00:38:10and for the whole region.
00:38:12So,
00:38:13it's an operation that needs a lot of effort,
00:38:16a lot of dedication,
00:38:20to truly reach the objective.
00:38:23What's the objective?
00:38:24The objective is to have a healthy border,
00:38:28a safe border without drug trafficking,
00:38:31without mafias,
00:38:32without armed groups,
00:38:34for development,
00:38:36for peace of the border people.
00:38:39And to do there,
00:38:42together with Colombia,
00:38:45taking the word and thinking of Bolívar,
00:38:49of the Union of Nations of the Great Colombia,
00:38:52a great development plan that benefits both countries.
00:38:59So, it's not any operation what we are doing.
00:39:02We are very aware of this.
00:39:03It's a great operation with a lot of seriousness,
00:39:06a lot of logistical efforts,
00:39:10without rest to fulfill with the purposes that we,
00:39:14with the objective that we have.
00:39:17Well, we also want to listen.
00:39:22We are going to the region of Guayana Ezequiva,
00:39:27Mayor General Wilfredo Machado,
00:39:30commander of the Tariq area, Guayana.
00:39:42Let's listen,
00:39:43what is being done over there.
00:39:47Chávez is my General-in-Chief.
00:39:52I find myself in the following coordinates.
00:40:08In the strategic integral defense region number 6,
00:40:11Guayana,
00:40:12Bolívar State,
00:40:13municipality of Caroní.
00:40:15In the framework of Operation Bolivarian Shield,
00:40:18we are carrying out patrol operations,
00:40:22and land reconnaissance,
00:40:24air reconnaissance,
00:40:25and sea reconnaissance,
00:40:28with the deployment of several quick reaction units,
00:40:31for a total of over a thousand soldiers,
00:40:35exercising national sovereignty in this important region.
00:40:38We are going to present to you right now the victories obtained in the operation activities during the last seven days.
00:40:47In the framework of Iron Fist operation, the fight against smuggling,
00:40:53personnel of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces,
00:41:00in the task of prosecuting and certifying the legality,
00:41:07in the transmoving export and import and trade of any product in the national territory in the state of Guayana,
00:41:18Sequiva.
00:41:19We seized a hundred boxes of four units each of different food products,
00:41:31for a total of 1,400 kilograms and 250 sacks of rice for 7,000 kilograms of rice in total,
00:41:46over 8,900 kilograms of merchandise has been seized.
00:42:04Both products came from Brazil,
00:42:07which were being transported without any kind of documentation,
00:42:11legal documentation.
00:42:13My General-in-Chief,
00:42:15in what has to do with the order of Operation Roraima,
00:42:19in the frontal struggle against armed criminal groups,
00:42:23criminal guns,
00:42:25and armed groups that create violence,
00:42:29that carry out illegal mining,
00:42:34destroying our environment and the future life of all species,
00:42:38we carried out with the destruction of an encampment near Guri,
00:42:44in Guri,
00:42:56in Guri,
00:42:58in Angostura,
00:43:01in the Bolivar State.
00:43:04We detained six citizens in that place,
00:43:07five Venezuelan and one citizen of Brazilian nationality,
00:43:12to whom the following elements were seized.
00:43:15A fire gun,
00:43:17nine millimeters,
00:43:18a hundred rounds,
00:43:21two radios,
00:43:23three bike bombs,
00:43:26two electric hammers,
00:43:28two water turbines,
00:43:30five hundred meters,
00:43:33three solar panels,
00:43:35over a thousand liters of fuel,
00:43:38and four motorbikes.
00:43:41Likewise,
00:43:42in different levels of river patrolling,
00:43:46in the Merellal sector,
00:43:48in the Merellal sector,
00:43:50in the Merellal of the Bolivar State,
00:44:04we located and destroyed equipment and material,
00:44:08that were buried,
00:44:10used for the illegal mining activity,
00:44:13or four thousand liters of fuel,
00:44:19a six-cylinder engine,
00:44:25three air compressors,
00:44:27and two thousand meters high pressure.
00:44:34National territory can never be bequeathed, rented,
00:44:44neither temporarily or partially to foreign entities.
00:44:50The Venezuelan national territory is an area of peace.
00:44:54It is a right and duty of each generation to protect and maintain the environment in benefit of itself and the future world.
00:45:05The national park and natural monuments and other important ecological areas will be protected, preserved as a vital patrimony of the nation.
00:45:17Venezuela is not a threat.
00:45:19Venezuela is hope.
00:45:21Chavez lives.
00:45:23The homeland continues.
00:45:25Loyal always, traitors never.
00:45:28The sun of Venezuela rises on the Ezequivo.
00:45:31We shall win.
00:45:36Thank you very much, Division General, to all its team.
00:45:40We know of the great territorial extension that that territory has,
00:45:45the great need of equipment and efforts that is necessary to control,
00:45:50to have stability in that region.
00:45:58But I know that with your will and professionalism,
00:46:03your always will to triumph is always what comes ahead.
00:46:08And therefore, you are doing all that you have been doing,
00:46:11not only protecting the environment.
00:46:13The Bolivar National Armed Forces helps, helps a lot,
00:46:23not only in the issue with the illegal mining.
00:46:26The Bolivar National Armed Forces also helps to protect the water sources,
00:46:33the national parks, the forest reserves,
00:46:38the water reserves, all those tasks in coordination with the Environment Ministry.
00:46:47We do it to protect the environment.
00:46:50It's not only to fight against illegal mining,
00:46:53but also protect all these reserves, forests, water,
00:47:03so that our country has and we can also build
00:47:09following the threat of climate change.
00:47:13And we take that very seriously.
00:47:15The threat of climate change.
00:47:18We make a great effort to contribute,
00:47:21to preserve our Amazon region.
00:47:24So thank you very much.
00:47:28To all his teams, congratulations.
00:47:33And now, we would like to listen, finally,
00:47:37in this group of reports,
00:47:42Division General Dionezo Horrada.
00:47:45He's the commander of the Operation Integral Defense Amazonas.
00:47:49He's leading all the Operation Neblina fog in the Amazon states.
00:48:02Something that is almost impenetrable due to its characteristics.
00:48:10And we have reached by river to some places very tucked away.
00:48:19And we've had results because mafias do not have patience.
00:48:36They have no care for geographic spaces.
00:48:41One can not even imagine.
00:48:44The drug trafficking mafias and terrorist armed groups,
00:48:48drug trafficking terrorist armed groups from Colombia
00:48:50go through the places where you least imagine.
00:48:53So we want to listen to the report of Sohorrada.
00:48:58So that he explains Venezuela from that far away place
00:49:02in the south of Venezuela, everything that is being done.
00:49:05Chave leaves.
00:49:07Good morning, my general in chief.
00:49:10From the Integral Defense Operation Zone,
00:49:13we continue to deploy across the territory
00:49:15with six quick reaction units,
00:49:17comprised by men and women committed
00:49:20in the defense of the homeland
00:49:23and imperfect popular civic military fusion.
00:49:26using all land, air and sea means, exercising sovereignty in this Amazon region,
00:49:36always fulfilling the constitution and laws of the Bolivar Republic of Venezuela
00:49:41in the struggle and elimination of tankol groups
00:49:45that aim to carry out drug trafficking activities and illegal mining.
00:49:50We are going to present to you the report of the different victories
00:49:57in the operations in the last eight years
00:50:00in the framework of the Bolivar and Shield Neblina 25.
00:50:06So we carried out the destruction of three logistical encampment tank holes
00:50:11located in the following coordinates.
00:50:13We succeeded in ceasing uniforms and equipment used by these terrorist groups,
00:50:29over 100 rounds of different calibers,
00:50:3420 magazines of assault rifles of different models,
00:50:38450 liters of jet fuel,
00:50:44free vehicles,
00:50:47security cameras and such equipment,
00:50:50and different communication equipment.
00:51:01In the second we see,
00:51:04we located 14 structures of logistics,
00:51:093,000 liters of fuel,
00:51:13800 kilograms of logistics stuff,
00:51:195,200 different medicines.
00:51:24Likewise, we seized two assault rifles with their respective magazine ammunition.
00:51:32The third encampment was located in the following coordinates.
00:51:38with the destruction of 15 structures,
00:51:493,200 liters of gasoline,
00:51:521,800 liters of diesel fuel,
00:51:56and different communication equipment,
00:51:59and satellite communication equipment.
00:52:01We achieved the location and destruction of a clandestine airstrip used for drug trafficking activity,
00:52:12located in the following coordinates.
00:52:16We also found a fixed wind airplane that was destroyed as well.
00:52:312,000 liters diesel fuel,
00:52:351,000 liters of gasoline,
00:52:38a satellite antenna,
00:52:40and different communication equipment.
00:52:43Against illegal mining,
00:52:45we executed the following operation.
00:52:47We located and destroyed three encampments of illegal mining,
00:52:51where we found a great quantity of different materials used for the destruction of the environment,
00:52:57and the illegal extraction from water sources.
00:53:01We seized thousands of liters of gasoline and 6,000 liters of diesel fuel,
00:53:11that were going to be used in the operations of the equipment for illegal mining.
00:53:16We seized a shipment, a speedboat,
00:53:21and detained five citizens for the practice of these crimes,
00:53:27and they are at the order of the public ministry.
00:53:30The Bolivar National Armed Forces will not allow our sacred territory
00:53:34be used as a platform for drug trafficking.
00:53:37In Venezuela, we do not so,
00:53:41we do not produce or consume this kind of products.
00:53:45Venezuela is a territory of peace, free of terrorist groups.
00:53:49Chavez lives, my General-in-Chief.
00:53:51Well, thank you very much,
00:53:55Division General Soho.
00:53:58Greetings to all the team of the Border National Armed Forces in that region.
00:54:03Very soon we are going to be there,
00:54:06carrying out different tasks.
00:54:09And well, I say to the Venezuelan people,
00:54:15that we can say that we have a territory that is busy.
00:54:24And it's not busy in the intent of massacring a people.
00:54:29It's not an occupation army to contain a people.
00:54:32I remember very sadly what happened in 1989,
00:54:39that massacre against the people.
00:54:41That was a doctrine.
00:54:43An army not to defend its sovereignty,
00:54:47but an army to contain the people,
00:54:51to fight the insurgency within the people,
00:54:54against the Venezuelan people.
00:54:56And that's what happened against many peoples in Latin America.
00:54:59So it's an army that is currently occupying the territory to exercise sovereignty.
00:55:06Reports that I get daily points to it.
00:55:10Very efficient action of the Border National Armed Forces to defend our homeland.
00:55:18Now, we are better prepared.
00:55:24We are more consistent.
00:55:26We are stronger.
00:55:27The Popular Military Police Union is not a cliché.
00:55:33It's a reality.
00:55:38And it has created a great capacity of response in the territory.
00:55:44Coherent with the people.
00:55:48The Bolivarian Armed Forces and the security agencies.
00:55:53We've made a perfect nuclei to face any kind of threat.
00:55:58And we have learned a lot in these last years of hybrid war with different ships.
00:56:06At the same time, everything happens simultaneously.
00:56:10We have learned a lot.
00:56:12So we are going to be very strong.
00:56:16And to the Venezuelan people, we can say,
00:56:19you can trust the Bolivarian National Armed Forces.
00:56:22Trust the leadership of our Commander-in-Chief, President Nicolás Maduro.
00:56:27Can trust in the capacities of our armed forces
00:56:33and the ones that we have reinforced in these last days.
00:56:38See the Bolivarian militias.
00:56:42The way that the people express themselves.
00:56:45How they came out, firstly, to reject military threats of the U.S. Empire.
00:56:50And also in a show of clear patriotism.
00:56:55Of love for their homeland.
00:56:59These are not fantasies.
00:57:02These are not telltales.
00:57:04Whoever wants to see this, you are welcome to do it.
00:57:07Come and see what is happening in Venezuela.
00:57:09The warrior gene has awakened a warrior to defend peace, the peace of Venezuela.
00:57:24So the Venezuelan people must trust completely that we are on the right path.
00:57:30That we are building capacities, strengthening our strength daily.
00:57:36And I also tell them that we will be here standing strong, vigilant,
00:57:47of any action that imperialism with their ships deployed there in the Caribbean.
00:57:54And their actions within the territory.
00:57:58Venezuelans to destabilize and to continue to bring about a regime change in the country.
00:58:06Well, they will not succeed in this.
00:58:09Because they are going to crash with a wall.
00:58:14Because the people now in the north, they took away their mask.
00:58:19Now it's no longer that John Bolton wrote a book over there.
00:58:24And Mark Spear wrote some other book.
00:58:26And Mike Pompeo wrote another book.
00:58:29Showing the truth.
00:58:31The true intentions of U.S. imperialism.
00:58:34To overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
00:58:38To divide the armed forces.
00:58:40To destabilize the country.
00:58:42So they are no longer books.
00:58:44They are faithful demonstrations that we are seeing in the Caribbean.
00:58:51A territory that they want as theirs.
00:58:58As an inner sea for them.
00:59:00For their control.
00:59:02So we are vigilant.
00:59:06We are calm.
00:59:08Building strength.
00:59:13And as Simon Bolivar said.
00:59:16While reading his manifesto.
00:59:21God grants victory to consistency.
00:59:25I want to thank Colonel José Luis Ventacur.
00:59:31Commander of this glorious battalion.
00:59:34From here.
00:59:37We are sharing with the troops.
00:59:39With the National Guard.
00:59:40With the militiamen.
00:59:41And militiamwomen.
00:59:42In a daily day of readiness.
00:59:49And preparation.
00:59:51Greetings to the people of Venezuela.
00:59:54We can tell you we are going to victory.
00:59:57We are going with the truth.
00:59:59And we are going for our national integrity.
01:00:01For independence.
01:00:02Slaves never.
01:00:03Free always.
01:00:04Always till victory.
01:00:05We shall be victorious.
01:00:06We shall be victorious.