Yesterday (September 5) President Maduro heard
a public oath taken by the Venezuelan military commanders of the national armed
forces and the so called “Political High Command of the Revolution” in Campo de
Carabobo, the place the most important battle in 1821 of the independence war.
Maduro characterized the oath as an “unconditional”
support for the defense of socialism against the “psychological, electrical,
and political war against the people.”
The actual wording, as published
by the Agencia Venezolana de Noticias, is a vague statement in the style of the
patriotic rhetoric of Venezuela’s Bolivarian/Chavista political religion, but
it does mention “socialism” and the need to be prepared for “any eventuality”:
We swear with all our patriotic soul, bolivarian
soul, and chavista soul, to construct an independent fatherland and to
construct the fatherland of socialist equality. We swear to unite all the strength
of our people and to be prepared for any eventuality [coyuntura] and to guarantee the peace, the stability, and the
continuity of the Bolivarian Revolution. We thus swear in this immortal field [of
Carabobo].
Before the swearing of the oath, Maduro stated
that October will be the month of “preparation for combat and the month of early
victory in the face of the psychological, electrical, and political war against
our people.”
He further explained that “a criminal war has
been unleashed against the Venezuelan people; they want to drag us into chaos,
they want the division of our people, they want to take us back to the times of
confusion, the times of darkness. (…) The people need to know who the enemies
of the fatherland are, (…) their complete names, where they are, what they
think, what is their psychology. They are not my personal enemies, they are the
enemies of the fatherland, of the independence of the fatherland, they are the
enemies of our people, not recent enemies, but enemies that have been always there.”
(Here is the text of the oath in
Spanish: "Juramos con el alma de patriotas, con
el ama de bolivarianos, con el alma de chavistas, construir la patria
independiente y construir la igualdad de la patria socialista. Juramos unir las
fuerzas del pueblo y estar preparados ante cualquier coyuntura y garantizar la
paz, la estabilidad y la continuidad de la Revolución Bolivariana. Así lo
juramos en este campo inmortal")
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