Maduro: In 2013 Venezuela defeated a conspiracy

Yesterday’s promotion ceremony of military officers at Fuerte Tiuna included the promotion of the President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello to the rank of Captain, among others, for their participations in the military coups of February 4 and November 27, 1992 (called “civic-military rebellions” in the official government jargon.)

According to AVN, Maduro congratulated the promoted officers and declared: “2013 was the year that unity and revolutionary morality defeated the attempts by the North American Empire and its allies of the Venezuelan right to divide the National Bolivarian Armed Forces and destabilize the country.”

He added that his offensive against the “economic war” will continue into 2014, but will now include a “new and more powerful civic-military offensive.”

 Image of the "Civic-military Hight Command of the Revolution" taken from the web page of the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias