Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro activated Communal Militia Units this Friday in the nation’s 5,336 communal districts in response to growing threats of intervention from the United States government.

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In his remarks, the president emphasized that “today is the first day of organizational operational activation of the entire Bolivarian National Militia, already structured by the citizens who enlisted in the first two days.”

The president led the ceremony in the Simón Bolívar Great Hall of the Bolivarian Military University in Caracas, accompanied by senior government officials such as the Minister of Defense, Major General Vladimir Padrino López; the Strategic Operational Commander of the FANB, Major General Domingo Hernández Lares; and the Commander General of the Bolivarian Militia of Venezuela, Major General Orlando Ramón Romero Bolívar, among other senior military officials.

The head of state also referred to the opening of the Permanent Enlistment System (SAP), stating that it is progressing “very well” and highlighting the opportunity citizens now have to join the national defense system.

Regarding this, he said it constitutes the first step taken to confront the escalating interventionist and unilateral threats from the United States.

In this regard, he pointed to the nation’s organic law as a guarantee of peace, stability in Venezuela, and the country’s cohesion.

This Friday, the more than 8 million people enlisted in the Bolivarian National Militia, along with reservists, were summoned to begin the first induction session and activate the communal militia units in the country’s 5,336 Communal Circuits, as part of the strengthening of the Peace Quadrants.

During his speech, President Maduro recalled Venezuela’s history of sovereignty and congratulated the country’s military, after which the president addressed the control of coca leaves.

“Venezuela is today a territory free of coca leaf production, free of drug processing in the country, and very soon we will be 100 percent free of any attempt to smuggle even a grain of this drug into our national territory.”

He also emphasized that his country has not and will never have “a warmongering, imperialist, or colonialist military doctrine,” in light of U.S. actions that violate international law and infringe on national sovereignty.

“We have not attacked, nor will we ever attack, any people on the planet, much less in our region. This is the great ethical, moral, political, ideological, human, and military difference with the imperialist armies we knew yesterday and today. They have plans to conquer, subjugate, colonize, and dominate the world,” he added.

Along these lines, he emphasized, “Let them deal with their plans; we have plans for Venezuela to reign in peace, stability, tranquility, and national unity, articulated with the new multipolar world that has already emerged. Those are our plans.”

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