EFE.- The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) of Venezuela rejected this Saturday the rewards from the United States for information that leads to the capture of the leader of Chavismo, Nicolás Maduro, and the head of Defense of the Caribbean country, Vladimir Padrino López, of 25 million and 15 million dollars, respectively.
In a statement, the military institution expressed that a “spurious reward will not make a dent in the physical and spiritual strength of both recognized leaders,” who will remain “firm as the oak and upright as the saman, to continue leading the nation correctly.”
In that sense, the FANB stated that this “aggression only further strengthens the cohesion and absolute union in the demand for respect” for its “leaders and hierarchical superiors.”
“This new onslaught of screams in the darkness of the imperial puppets is part of the neo-fascist and coup plans that the Venezuelan extreme right has been carrying out to alter the peace and stability of the country, attempting, through extortionate and irrational sanctions, to submit us. and bow to foreign interests,” he added in the statement, signed by the operational strategic commander, Domingo Hernández Lárez.
The United States Government increased the reward for Maduro on Friday from 15 to 25 million, after he was sworn in as president for a third consecutive six-year term in power, in a controversial takeover rejected by the largest anti-Chavista coalition – the Unitary Platform. Democratic Party (PUD) -, which denounced the consummation of a “coup d’état”, by reiterating that the winner of the July elections was Edmundo González Urrutia.
The opposition leader, who claims his victory, said this Friday that, as “commander in chief” and “president-elect,” he orders “the military high command to ignore illegal orders given to them by those who confiscate power and to prepare their conditions.” of security to assume the position.”
In addition to Maduro and Padrino López, the US also offers a reward of $25 million for information leading to the capture of the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello.
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