The military must maintain the honor and adhere to the codes, laws and rules emanating from the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in addition to being faithful to the oath to defend national integrity and sovereignty, ratified on Saturday the Minister of People’s Power for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López.
His position was expressed in reference to the situation suffered by a group of ex-officers and soldiers who defected from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) encouraged by the leader of the Venezuelan ultra-right wing Juan Guaidó and, however, are currently in the United States without any protection or asylum, while others in similar conditions are disaggregated in other countries of the region.
The minister stressed that the military are obliged to preserve as a sine qua non condition the codes of ethics, typical of military honor, among which stands out the respect for the people’s sovereignty.
“The military must abide without ambiguity to the Constitution, interpret it, comply with it and enforce it; validate our oath and defend the mandates of the people’s sovereignty as a sine qua non condition of citizens with special codes, typical of military honor”, said Padrino López in a message posted on the Twitter social network.
Recently, former FANB Major Hugo Parra Martínez said that the opposition leadership led by Guaidó “used and discarded” the military that joined the movement and attempted an invasion of Venezuela on February 23 through the border with Colombia, with the excuse of entering an alleged humanitarian aid.
“I fell in a sack and I’m at the bottom. I lost everything, my family, my house. What I did was worth nothing. I do not see a way out”, said the defector who is currently being held in the United States by the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE), as refers a material spread on Twitter by the correspondent of the Telesur network, Madelein García.
Parra Martínez is being held at the Winn Correctional Center of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, southeast of Winnfield, one of the prisons set up by the US government to hold thousands of migrant men.
In an interview granted to an international media, Hugo Parra Martínez also said that after the coup attempt last February he has not received the support promised by Guaido, on the contrary, he has been detained in the northern country for eight months “without knowing until when, or if they will end up deporting him to Venezuela”.
“Here only the bible accompanies me, and God whom I implore every day to help me”, said the ex-officer who is in prison with other deserters of the Venezuelan military body.
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