Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets supporters during a rally in Maracay Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Venezuela Plans A Million Strong 'Guerrilla Army' Against US Invasion -- The Telegraph
Venezuela is training a "guerrilla army" aiming to be a million strong by 2013 to fight off a possible US invasion, an opposition MP has said.
"Plan Sucre" – apparently crafted with input from close ally and fellow US foe Cuba – covers the legal, logistical and other angles necessary to "transform a professional army into a guerrilla army," Representative Maria Corina Machado told El Universal newspaper.
The former presidential candidate said she had obtained a copy of the plan, printed by an institution affiliated with the national army.
"The strategic objective is to build a new Bolivarian military doctrine" that would prepare Venezuela to be successful in a prolonged popular war against "the empire," or the United States, Machado said, citing the document.
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My Comment: People always get the government that they deserve, and many Venezuelans for their own reasons want him. As for the establishment of a huge citizen army .... this is so typical of authoritarian leftist regimes .... the rush to arm their supporters against real and (for the most part) perceived threats.