Overview
- Officials outlined seven lines of action that include training and communications teams across more than 5,300 communal circuits, stronger territorial defense, and a push for a communal economy and social missions.
- Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López endorsed the initiative, calling the Militia a fundamental engine of national defense and describing a dynamic reorganization already underway.
- The plan elevates a declared 'communication battle' aimed at countering what the government labels fake news and psychological warfare.
- The rollout is framed against rising tensions with the United States, with references to U.S. military activity in the Caribbean, President Donald Trump’s warning that Maduro has his days numbered, and the U.S. seizure and planned transfer of a Venezuelan oil tanker to an American port.
- Authorities have not announced any legal or institutional changes to the national calendar, leaving Maduro’s assertion that 2026 has started as a political statement without confirmed legal effect.