The Bolivarian armed forces of Venezuela deployed more than five thousand men to participate in the lightning operation in Catatumbo, to protect the border and guarantee national stability.
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00:00The Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela deployed more than 5,000 men to participate in the
00:05lightning operation in Catatumbo to protect the border and guarantee national stability.
00:12The Venezuelan Minister of Defence, Vladimir Padrino LĂłpez, activated the military operation
00:17on the border with Colombia with the objective of blocking the access to any destabilizing
00:22armed groups coming from the border zone.
00:24This measure takes place within the framework of the confrontations between the National
00:29Liberation Army and the dissidences of the Colombian Armed Forces.
00:33In this context, the General-in-Chief, Padrino LĂłpez, detailed that the soldiers will carry
00:37out air patrols, control of land routes and eradication of illicit crops.
00:49Of this new Catatumbo lightning operation ordered by our Commander-in-Chief Nicolas
00:53Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic Venezuela, a new exercise to guarantee,
00:59as our Constitution says, as our Constitution mandates, to guarantee national independence,
01:04our national sovereignty and also the integrity of the entire national territory, the entire
01:09integrity of the national territory.