Tag: FANB

• Saturday, November 1st 2025 - 09:58 UTC

  Trump denies imminent attack on Venezuela

  

  US President Donald Trump on Friday denied that his administration was planning military attacks against Venezuela, contradicting reports from major US media outlets in this regard citing anonymous sources.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 09:26 UTC

  Venezuela's borders with Colombia returning to normal under control of Bolivarian forces

  

  Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Monday reported eight soldiers had died fighting a group of “terrorists” on the Colombian border. But after three weeks of clashes and 17 deaths, “the region is returning to normal.”

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Twitter suspended accounts associated with Venezuela's regime and military

  

  Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuela's government and military, including the OPEC nation's oil ministry and the armed forces' operational command.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 10:58 UTC

  Venezuela's Defense minister condemns opposition's plan to rejoin regional military assistance treaty

  

  The Venezuelan defense minister said that the Venezuelan Armed Forces condemn the Juan Guaido-led opposition's plans to re-join the Rio Treaty. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) is “an instrument of domination and interventionism that goes against independence and sovereignty of peoples.”

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 10:56 UTC

  Who is Padrino López, Maduro’s strong man

  

  After the strong support of the armed forces to the president, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted the figure of Vladimir Padrino López, the Defense Minister of that country, who responded to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, after his remarks on Monday about the danger that ran the military that was next to the Venezuelan leader.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 19:56 UTC

  “Operación Genesis” calls to rebellion of military and police forces

  

  “Venezuela: God and Christ gave us the victory. Lets go to the streets to take our freedom” says Oscar Pérez, an ex-inspector of the CICPC, the national police force in a new video diffused by himself with a group of rebellious officials. In the video he calls on the population and the national security agencies to join them in the fight and rebel against the regime of Nicolás Maduro.