He says that peasants will take up arms

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he trusts that the peasants will prepare "comprehensively" to "take up arms" and defend the nation if it were to be attacked by the United States, a country that maintains a naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea under the pretext of combating drug trafficking. "I trust the National Peasant Union Ezequiel Zamora to prepare comprehensively and for thousands, and I am not exaggerating if I say millions, of male and female peasants to be prepared to take up arms and defend the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela if it were to be attacked by the North American empire," said the president at the founding event of this union, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). Maduro said that if Venezuela is "attacked" by the United States, the country would remain "this great, rebellious homeland, in prolonged and free resistance, always free." Read also [US plans arms sale to Israel for US$ 6,000 million] Yesterday, the Bolivarian ...