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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:14 am Post subject: Venezuelans participate in 'resistance' exercises
An estimated 40,000 Venezuelans, including military personnel, military reserves, community council members, community media workers, and civilians participated in coordinated military exercises of resistance against foreign aggression last weekend, demonstrating the principle of “co-responsibility” between civilians and the military for the defense of the nation as mandated in Venezuela’s 1999 constitution.
“A People united will never be defeated, and the People and the reserves together defend our sovereignty against an enemy invader,” declared Colonel Francisco Salcedo, one of the chief coordinators of the exercises, on Sunday.
In Puerto Cabello, in the state of Carabobo, General Carlos Freites Reyes led “Operation Reinforcements from the Sea to a Resistance Force,” a video recording of which was broadcast on national television Sunday.
A local community radio station triggered the operation with a covert signal meant to avert enemy tracking or interference.
As a helicopter circled overhead, a reserve battalion secured the beach where a speed boat arrived bearing supplies such as water, food, and other provisions. Civilians and members of the security and defense committees of the local community councils transported the supplies by horseback and by small motorboat to hidden inland storage facilities.
According to several news reports, other rehearsed operations included ambushes against the enemy, food security managed through the infrastructure of the government’s extensive subsidized food network Mercal, emergency medical care, special operations to protect the facilities of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, natural disaster emergency procedures, and environmental cleanup operations.
Also, community councils designated the key “points of resistance” in each of Venezuela’s 335 municipalities nation-wide.
Chavez assured that “Training for the war of resistance will continue.”
Chavez explained that the integral defense of the nation “is everyone’s task. It is about an ethical attitude toward the nation, toward the country. Only a minority lack patriotism and dignity, made up of those who are willing to turn over our country to the North American empire.”
Joined: May 27, 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: The Post Peak Oil Historian
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:49 pm Post subject: Re: Venezuelans participate in 'resistance' exercises
Frankly, it is looking like the US has it's eye on South America. Not that they won't participate in an air strike on Iran alongside Israel, but, that will be the extent of it in the Middle East.
Venezuela is still the primary funder of UNASUR, and an invasion could cripple the South American Union, and put an end to region-wide peasant socialist dreams. _________________ In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:25 am Post subject: Re: Venezuelans participate in 'resistance' exercises
Maybe, but Venezuela will require peacekeeping in order to secure oil supplies only. The empire is mostly ambiguous regarding social policy as long as the juice flows out.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: Re: Venezuelans participate in 'resistance' exercises
Cid_Yama wrote:
an invasion could cripple the South American Union, and put an end to region-wide peasant socialist dreams.
Perhaps, but how likely will that be now?
A country which is preparing in resistance excercises prior to an invasion will be an absolute nightmare to control. Especially sincethe popularity of Chavez' regime rests, in part, in its stance against the US. The day after the attempted coup against him, millions of Venezuelans came over the mountaintops to have him reinstated. That kind of solidarity ensures they would fight an occupation with incredible resilience (an a large number of Ven citizens have weapons, like the south US).
Plus all of the political fallout that the US would face from neighbours... Most Latin American countries were angry when Columbia did just one cross border strike.
Looks like Iraq X 5 to me. Unless the US military complex gives way to complete abandon, an invasion is looking increasingly unlikely, even as tensions rise.
Coup attempts, assassinations, economic sabotage are all very likely though...
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