Another military purge in Venezuela on the way? Maduro bans visits to anti-Chavista family members
Days after a bizarre drone attack, Venezuela's government may be getting ready for another crackdown on the military
Christopher Woody
Published 5:54 pm PDT, Monday, August 13, 2018
The days since an August 4 drone attack on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have yielded few solid details about the perpetrators, but Maduro's government appears to be moving ahead with efforts to consolidate power and neutralize rivals.
During the attack, two drones, each carrying 2.2 pounds of C-4 explosive, flew over an event marking the 81st anniversary of the national guard, where Maduro was speaking. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said one was electronically diverted by security forces, while the other crashed into an apartment building nearby.
The commotion and blast scattered the crowd assembled there. Seven national guardsmen were injured. Maduro and other officials were unharmed, and it appears to be the first time drones were used to target a head of state.
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In a weekend meeting with senior military officials, Maduro appeared to preface such a purge, reiterating his claim of Colombian and US involvement and saying that members of the armed forces should distance themselves from family members opposed to the government.
"I understand that in the military family there may exist, in your households, people who do not agree with the government ... but I ask you all for complete loyalty," Maduro said, according to Venezuelan news site Runrunes. "It is preferable that a military member, and excuse me for saying so, that a military member stop visiting or avoid that part of the family" in order to avoid losing one's career "through an imprudence."
"I'm going to be very strict with this, and I have given precise instructions in order to avoid us being infiltrated" by fifth columns, Maduro reportedly said.
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Chavista acolytes are demanding that the true believers secretly "name names" of their Capitalist tormentors. Maduro has already expounded upon this.
https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a267701.html
Gian Carlo Di Martino
There are three aspects that lead me to this conclusion with optimism. First, we have a President who has never stopped fighting and looking for alternatives in order to overcome the opposition economic war and the sanctions imposed on us by Donald Trump. Second, in each of these peasants there is the potential that is required, for the concretion of that process in which one works so that Venezuela does not continue to depend on the oil rent. Third, the maximum leader of the Bolivarian revolution, asked the peasants, a secret piece of paper with the names of their aggressors, with the firm intention of giving them the ax together with the Attorney General of the Republic, Tareck William Saab.
