NEWS


February 8th, 2010

Chávez Creates Popular Militias to Defend the Bolivarian Revolution

CARACAS, February 7. President Hugo Chávez called on the popular power authorities today to create militias to defend the Venezuelan Revolution in the 184 communes that are constituted at national level.

According to the Head of State, the residents in those areas, made up by hundred of families with low resources, will receive military training to resist any attack.

We won't attack anybody, but we have to get ready to defend hand to hand, millimeter by millimeter, the territory of this Revolution, he pointed out during his Sunday program Aló, Presidente.

Chávez said that it is about training soldiers for the war of the whole nation.

In his own television program, he revealed that faced with the legislative elections next September 26, the outlook in the lines of the opposition is fraught with internal division.

Here there no opposition, there are some who do not want to unite nor give it their best shot. They are divided, some are more Fascist than others, some show more attachment to the law, there is everything, that it is the reality, he commented.

For Chávez, the electoral battle will be key to the continuity of the process of change called the Bolivarian Revolution.

To lose the National Assembly would be to leave open the possibility of a Honduras type coup d'etat, the leader explained, calling for unity in the forthcoming elections.(PL)