With The Country Falling Apart The Venezuelan Government Orders The Biggest MIlitary Exercise In Its History

Bloomberg: Venezuela Prepares for Biggest Military Exercise in History

* Excercises come as opposition pushes for ousting of President
* Defense Minister says its first mobilization of its kind

Venezuela is preparing for the biggest military exercises in its history this Saturday after the South American country’s government said it’s on high alert as the opposition pushes for a recall referendum on President Nicolas Maduro.

“Venezuela is threatened,” Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said on state television Thursday. “This is the first time we are carrying out an exercise of this nature in the country. In terms of national reach, it’s going to be in every strategic region.”

Maduro announced the exercises last weekend, a day after pledging to prolong his government’s special emergency powers. In a rambling press conference on Tuesday, Maduro said U.S. spy planes including an Boeing 707 E-3 Sentry had entered the country’s airspace illegally this month. The nation is already on an elevated state of alert after the U.S. renewed a presidential decree that said the South American country is a threat to its national security, Padrino Lopez said.

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