The President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), Nicolás Maduro Moros, led the act of greeting the members of the military from the Patio de Honor of the Ministry of Popular Power for Defense in Caracas.
During the event, the head of state was accompanied by the first combatant (First lady), Cilia Flores; the sector vice president for Political Sovereignty, Security and Peace, General in Chief Vladimir Padrino López and commanders of the Strategic Regions of Integral Defense (REDI), the Operational Zones of Integral Defense (ZODI), Generals, Cadets, Officers, among other authorities of the FANB.
The national president made the decoration to different combatants of Venezuela, who seized more than 3.4 tons of marijuana in Cabo de San Román in the state of Falcón: Colonel Winston Alexander Ángulo; Captain José Miguel Jiménez Hurtado; Frigate Lieutenant Alexander Jesús González García; Second Sergeant Major Johan Romero Medina, among others.
President Maduro together with the MoD head, made a tour of the different exhibitions of the sophisticated and technological equipment of the military corps, which are part of the defense of national sovereignty.
Subsequently, the cadets of the Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela, represented by the Navy Guard Major Gilberto Antonio Pérez Duro, carried out the delivery of a ship that symbolizes the Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo, in the year of the Bicentennial.
During the event, through an audiovisual, the authorities showed the work being carried out by the Military Community Brigades for Education and Health (Bricomiles), in more than 13,000 educational centers and in more than 290 care centers in the National territory.
President Nicolás Maduro instructs to maintain permanent combat against TANCOL groups
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, expressed this Wednesday that the greatest achievement of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) is to maintain the sovereignty, peace and territorial integrity of the country and instructed to maintain the permanent combat against the Colombian Armed Terrorist Drug Trafficking Groups (TANCOL).
“The greatest achievement we have had is to maintain the strategic initiative and the permanent deployment of our Force in the defense of the sovereignty, peace and territorial integrity of the country.”
“It has been a complex year and a lot of effort, where the Bolivarian National Armed Forces once again ratified its role, as the backbone of peace in Venezuela,” said the president.
During the act, he assessed the results in the fight against the TANCOL and Venezuelan ilegal armed groups, where 10 operations were carried out that included 99 deployments in the states of Zulia, Táchira, Apure, Amazonas, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Monagas, Sucre and Falcón. That is why he instructed permanent combat.
The operations deployed by the FANB are:
- Cacique Manaure: This operation was carried out in Falcón, a total success that is activated 24 hours a day.
- Catatumbo Lightning: It was developed in Zulia state to combat criminal gangs.
- Cacique Murachí: It was developed in the Táchira state, to protect the civilians from terrorist groups that come from Colombia.
- Vuelvan Caras: This operation takes place in the states of Apure, Barinas, and Guárico, against criminal gangs.
- Autana: Operation carried out in the state of Amazonas.
- Roraima 2022: It is the operation that takes place in the Bolívar state, against illegal mining. In this sense, the president urged to increase efforts in defense of nature, jungle, rivers and ecological system, in the presence of criminal gangs dedicated to the destruction of the environment “we are going to deepen Operation Roraima in defense of the environment.”
- Guará: It was developed in Delta Amacuro.
- Cayaurima: It is the FANB operation in Sucre
- Paramaconi: In the Orinoco Oil Belt.
- In the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic coast, other military operations.
Likewise, the president recognized the role of the FANB, in the formation of the Military Community Brigades for Health and Education (Bricomiles).
In this sense, he expressed: “I want to thank the effort of the commanders of the Integral Defense Regions, the Integral Defense Zones, of all the forces, battalions and military units, for the loving, disciplined, dedicated and successful work they have done. , with the Bricomiles of Education and Health, I thank you on behalf of the people”.
Regarding the Bolivarian Militia, he highlighted the incorporation of 730,000 militiamen and militiamen to the Popular Comprehensive Defense Units.
He recognized the FANB in Las Tejerías and El Castaño, “the humanitarian attention to the rain disaster areas was a complete success thanks to the discipline and capacity for action of the Popular Power and the Military Power.”
