Venezuela dictator, Nicolás Maduro, asked on Thursday (11) to Venezuelan citizens to prepare for a possible call to a “armed struggle in defense of sovereignty and peace, if necessary amid increasing tensions with the United States.
“The party of the popular and unifying government of the political and social forces of the historic bloc has an obligation to prepare structurally to leave for the armed struggle with the Venezuelan nation, if necessary to defend this land, defend our people, defend and affirm our history of dignity. I never believed that they could pronounce these words, but historical circumstances force us for responsibility,” Maduro said.
Earlier on Thursday, he had announced that at 284 “battle” points across the country.
The dictator spoke at the end of the Plenary Congress of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) in Caracas, capital of the country.
The Trump government intensified the American military presence in the southern Caribbean, as part of what it considers a repression of drug traffickers, and ordered the.
Maduro claimed that the American military hopes to get him out of power.