Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has
ordered the army into the streets as the volatile country braces for what his
opponents vow will be the “mother of all protests” tomorrow. Maduro, who has
faced violent protests over recent moves to tighten his grip on power, ordered
the military to defend the leftist “Bolivarian revolution” launched by his late
mentor Hugo Chavez in 1999. “From the first reveille (on Monday morning
yesterday), from the first rooster crows, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces
will be in the streets... saying, ‘Long live the Bolivarian revolution’,”
Maduro said Sunday night in a televised address. State TV showed images of army
units marching in the streets of Caracas as Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino
watched. More…
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