(Caracas) Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro has
called on the army to prepare to defend the country from the USA. Visiting a
military exercise near the northern city of Maracay, he reminded the Military of
their obligation to defend the country.
"We have been shamelessly threatened by the most criminal empire that ever existed and we have the obligation to prepare ourselves to guarantee peace...We need to have rifles, missiles and well-oiled tanks at the ready....to defend every inch of the territory if needs be,"
Maduro's speech came a couple of days after President Trump signed a decree
adding a number of top Venezuelan officials to a travel ban encompassing eight countries
that Washington says pose a security threat. This comes on top of how American financial institutions were
banned in August from lending new money to Venezuela's government or its state
oil company PDVSA. Which are on top of financial sanctions on Maduro and about
20 top officials. As you can see Maduro isn't impressed at been held to account for his dictatorship of the country.
