Maduro orders the FANB to reinforce anti-terrorist plans in the face of alleged operations by the US and Spain

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro ordered the Armed Forces this Thursday to reinforce anti-terrorist plans in answer to operations that – he insisted – have been forged in recent weeks from Spain and the United States against its government, from which the international community has demanded greater electoral transparency.

«We are defeating terrorism, put it there in your course of action, (we must) reinforce the anti-terrorist plans that the United States is sending us, with the (Central Intelligence Agency) CIA, and Spain, with the (National Intelligence Center) CNI,” said the president during a meeting with the military leadership.

At the event, which was broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión, asked the military to reinforce the search and capture of terrorists and guarantee “the neutralization of any possibility that in Venezuela they want to impose politics with bombs, with sabotage.”

Maduro asks the FANB to protect “vital objectives” of Venezuela

Although Madrid has denied that the two Spaniards captured in Venezuela – whom the government calls terrorists – belong to any intelligence body of the European country, Maduro reiterated that “there is full proof of the plans of the CIA and the Spanish CNI against “peace and security” of the nation.

For this reason, the Chavista leader ordered the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, to carry out reengineering in his area of ​​action to achieve an adaptation (of the Armed Forces) to the new means of war and implement an “anti-drone defense system in all vital objectives”, among which he mentioned airports and ports.

It is “a readjustment of the strategic, military and police intelligence and counterintelligence processes of the Venezuelan State to adapt it to the new circumstances of the 21st century and, especially, to the circumstances of Venezuela,” he stressed.