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Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela preparing to increase militia by more than 1 million
2019-04-15
[ALMASDARNEWS] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered an expansion of civilian militia by nearly one million members at a rally in Caracas on Saturday.

Maduro wants to raise the number of members from two million currently to three million by year-end.

Posted by:Fred

#6  We need somebody to do a Maduro take on the Hitler rant scene from "Downfall"
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2019-04-15 19:24  

#5  You'll hear stories like this come out of the EUSSR in about a decade.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-04-15 13:36  

#4  The Japanese were raising militia with sharpened bamboo poles at the end... Maduro probably can't afford even that.
Posted by: magpie   2019-04-15 13:13  

#3  hmmm...didn't we see this before, when the Fuhrer was directing non-existent units on a map of the region of Berlin circa April 1945?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-04-15 07:40  

#2  More idle hands, with weapons, demanding to be fed.
Posted by: Pearl Brown6709   2019-04-15 06:38  

#1  ...See also, "Dignity Battalions"....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-04-15 04:25  

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