The Vice President of Political Sovereignty, Security and Peace and Minister of People’s Power for Defense, G/J Vladimir Padrino López, presented to the nation a communiqué from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces and Citizen Security agencies in the face of destabilizing attempts, in which he noted that «we are stopping a coup d’état in development.»
A joint statement from the Ministries of People’s Power for Defense and Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, reads: «The FANB and the police forces strongly reject the desperate and seditious content in a writing published on social networks this Monday, August 5, by Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia, former presidential candidate, and the ultra far-right member María Corina Machado.»
Following, the full communiqué:
“The Bolivarian National Armed Forces and the Police Corps attached to the Ministry of People’s Power for Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace, strongly reject the desperate and seditious statements contained in a document published on social media yesterday, August 5, by Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia, former presidential candidate, and the ultra far-right-wing member María Corina Machado.
First of all, it is important to bring to the fore that those who today claim to be democrats have a long and dark history as promoters of radical and absolutely unconstitutional, anti-democratic actions, contrary to all laws and the highest interests of the people of Venezuela.
These actions include the request for military interventions in the sacred territory of the homeland, as well as the request for unilateral coercive measures and the support of everything that involves the hybrid war, which the North American empire and its allies have applied to our nation for more than a decade. Therefore, it is blatantly cynical that now this faction of the Venezuelan political opposition is insurgent! It tries to cover itself with a cloak of legality that it has never practiced.
On the other hand, this fascist current continues trying to position the thesis of an electoral victory that they wanted to build on the basis of false surveys and an orchestrated media campaign to create fictitious expectations in only one sector of the population, which they intend to continue deceiving and manipulating. It is necessary to reiterate that the Presidential Elections of last July 28 were carried out under very high standards of transparency, with the assistance of more than 900 international observers and representatives of all the registered candidates; and they constituted an extraordinary demonstration of civility, in which the Electoral Power, even under cyber attack, and being the only constitutionally empowered entity, issued the corresponding results.
But now they are trying to tarnish the aforementioned Electoral Process through the well-known script of violence. On this occasion, they are resorting to the so-called «Comanditos», which are really 4th Generation Criminal Gangs with which they have established alliances, in order to control the political power that they were unable to achieve with the votes, being pertinent to clarify that their government plan is openly subservient and neocolonialist.
These criminal organizations unleashed a wave of terrorism through acts of vandalism that have attacked health centers and schools; public service and recreational structures; food collection centers; private commercial establishments; heritage monuments and sculptures; and facilities of political parties; among others.
They have also carried out cyberattacks on the computer platforms of public administration entities in order to generate anxiety and misinformation. In addition to the above, they raided the headquarters of military units and more than 250 posts of the Bolivarian National Police Corps (PNB), using firearms, explosives and incendiary devices.
Given this reality, it is offensive that they try to address the military and police officers whom they have always despised, inciting them to disobey the laws and, ironically, urging them to stand on the side of history and the people, when precisely, in the stoic defense of their rights, peace and healthy coexistence, these officers are the most affected by the violence that they have unleashed; adding up to now, 59 police officers and 47 FANB officers injured; in addition to the death of 02 Professional Troops of the Bolivarian National Guard.
For this reason, it is even more insulting and injurious to mention the relatives of such selfless men and women in uniform, who are also significantly aggrieved by the savage and fascist destabilizing plan that they have been developing, which has left orphaned children and marked psychological traumas in these families. These events will not go unpunished and will be the object of ironclad justice.
Without a doubt, these fatuous and irrational calls seek to break down our unity and institutionality; but they will never succeed. We successfully fulfilled, as we have always done, with discipline and professionalism, the tasks corresponding to Operation Republic to guarantee the security of the facilities, the electoral material, and especially that of the voters; being also a witness to the transparency of the electoral process. Now, in perfect civic-military-police union, we will safeguard internal order and peace throughout the national geography, always within the framework of respect for human rights and constitutional precepts.
We ratify our absolute loyalty to citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros, Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Commander in Chief of the FANB, who has been legitimately reelected by the People’s Power and proclaimed by the Electoral Power for the next 2025 – 2031 presidential term.
At the same time, we support his republican spirit, reflected in the proposal to resolve the electoral dispute through the Supreme Court of Justice, which will have the last word, demonstrating once again the strength of the country’s democratic institutions.
What bravery, that of the heroes of Junín!… What honor and what glory, (that of) those Liberators! Always with the same determination that they showed, we will remain firm in the defense of our beloved and cherished Homeland.»
