Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that his country is ready to fight, even though its army is underfunded, poorly trained, and no match for American firepower.
“The people are ready to fight, ready for battle,” Maduro told a crowd of supporters earlier this week.
He added: “Venezuela will not be humiliated. Venezuela will not submit to anyone. Venezuela will continue its path towards peace, harmony and stability.”
Yesterday, Thursday, Venezuela moved its forces to its positions on the Caribbean coast, and, according to Maduro, mobilized a militia numbering millions of soldiers, in a show of defiance against the largest American military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1980s, according to what the American Wall Street Journal reported.
According to CNN, Maduro announced, on Monday, the deployment of 4.5 million militiamen across the country, stressing that “no empire will touch the sacred land of Venezuela,” after the United States doubled the reward for information leading to his arrest and increased the number of forces sailing around Latin America and the Caribbean.
Venezuela has mobilized the media and social media against the United States. On television, radio, and social media, broadcasters tell Venezuelans that the United States is a greedy Nazi state that wants to seize the country’s oil wealth, but that the Venezuelan army, the National Bolivarian Armed Forces, is positioned to repel any invasion.
This comes as the United States deployed special forces and heavy weapons in the Caribbean Sea opposite Venezuela.
The United States deployed 7 warships in the Caribbean and one in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of an operation it says aims to combat drug smuggling.
