Venezuela

Venezuela installs powerful antiaircraft weapons system

Venezuela is in the process of installing a powerful antiaircraft weapons system to protect against incursions of its airspace, President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday.

Xinhua,

18 July, 2013

"We are installing the most powerful system in the world in all mountain ranges, mountains, corridors, in the Venezuelan plains, along maritime and territorial borders. Our homeland is unassailable, nobody will be able to touch even an inch of our homeland, it is sacred," Maduro said in a televised broadcast from eastern Sucre state, aired by state-run VTV.

Maduro said the antiaircraft weapons system is being installed along the mountain range that runs through eastern Venezuela "so that some foreign airplane will never be able to enter and desecrate the sacred sky of the Venezuelan homeland."

The president in Sucre to promote his administration's Street Government program, which aims to bring the federal government closer to the people so it can resolve local problems. He also called for a socially, morally and ethically "strong" armed forces.