Padrino López: The country's military forces are united and cohesive in the face of imperial aggression

Published at: 04/01/2026 11:56 AM

The Minister of Popular Power for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, accompanied by the Superior General Staff of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), assured that the country's military forces are united and cohesive in the face of the imperial aggression that was perpetuated this Saturday, January 03.

“Yesterday, we witnessed, all the people of Venezuela, a military aggression against our sovereignty, violated, our sovereignty violated, because in an unprecedented deployment against the Republic, and in a premeditated manner, this military aggression was carried out with the disastrous consequences that we already know and that the world today is also stunned by barbarism, rudeness and grotesque,” he denounced.

In releasing the official statement of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, he said that “this is an anti-legal and criminal action against the sovereignty of Venezuela.”

Mazo News Team