[ELUNIVERSAL] President Nicolás Maduro announced on Tuesday that the civil-military operation Bicentenario de Angostura will be held from February 10 to 15 for the "integral defense" of the nation."This month we must start with strategic acceleration," the president said during a ceremony held in Fuerte Tiuna, adding that Venezuela has a military corps with great operational capacity, doctrinaire.
He also indicated that the beginning of the Plan of the Nation 2019-2025 must start within the framework of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Angostura Congress.
"The start of the Plan of the Nation must be done within the framework of the Angostura Congress and the bicentennial era, we are preparing for the commemoration throughout the year, but on February 15, in large civic-military mobilizations we will commemorate the two hundred years of that day that the Liberator -Simón BolÃvar- shone forever, "he said during a VTV broadcast.
On the other hand, he said that on April 13 he will swear in militia to reach the two million that "must be ready for the war of all the people, in the different scenarios, and we must have the weapons, so that the weapons system arrives to the Bolivarian National Militia. "
He reiterated that "the arms of the Republic are in the hands of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, by constitutional and legal mandate, and the FANB is the one that deploys them, which puts them in the hands of the militiaman, so they can go to their military exercises and defend clean lead the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of Venezuela, should the case arise.