The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroordered this Thursday to the Armed Forces reinforce “anti-terrorist plans” in response to operations that, according to him, have been hatched in recent weeks from Spain and the United States against his Government, from which the international community has demanded greater electoral transparency.
“We are defeating terrorism, put it there in your course of action, (we must) reinforce the anti-terrorist plans that you are sending us USA, with the INCand Spain, with the CNI“said the president during a meeting with the military leadership.
In the event, which was broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión, he asked the military “strengthen the search and capture of terrorists” and guarantee “the neutralization of any possibility that in Venezuela they want to impose politics with bombs, with sabotage.”
Even though Madrid has denied that the two captured Spaniards in Venezuela – whom the Maduro Government calls terrorists – belong to some body intelligence of the European country, Maduro has reiterated that “there are full proof of the plans of the CIA and the CNI Spanish against the peace and security” of the Caribbean nation.
For this reason, the Venezuelan president has ordered the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, “do a reengineering” in its area of ​​action to achieve an “adaptation of the army to the new means of war” and implement a system of “anti-drone defense on all vital targets“, among which he mentioned airports and ports.
This is “a readjustment of the strategic, military and police intelligence and counterintelligence processes of the Venezuelan State to adapt it to the new circumstances of the 21st century and, especially, to the circumstances of Venezuela,” he stressed.
