Security & Strategic Review - April 2005
Chávez builds up ‘million-strong’ reserve to confront expected US invasion
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has set in motion a buildup of reserves designed to have at least 1.5m people available to confront an invader with guerrilla tactics. The internal opposition claims that what he really wants is an all-pervasive instrument of social control, and Chávez does not help his case by invoking a largely imagined US-devised 'NATO operation' as proof that an invasion of Venezuela is being prepared.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has set in motion a buildup of reserves designed to have at least 1.5m people available to confront an invader with guerrilla tactics. The internal opposition claims that what he really wants is an all-pervasive instrument of social control, and Chávez does not help his case by invoking a largely imagined US-devised 'NATO operation' as proof that an invasion of Venezuela is being prepared.
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