Venezuelan Army
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The Venezuelan Army, officially the Bolivarian Army of Venezuela, is the land arm of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. Also known as Bolivarian Army, its role is to be responsible for land-based operations against external or internal threats that may put the sovereignty of the nation at risk. The army is the second largest military branch of Venezuela after the Bolivarian Militia.
Detail of The Battle of Carabobo (1887) by Martín Tovar y Tovar.
Equestrian portrait of General Joaquin Crespo, by Arturo Michelena 1897.
T-72B1V tanks of the Venezuelan Army during a parade in hommage to the death of former president Hugo Chávez, March 2014.
Vladimir Padrino López
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Vladimir Padrino López is a Venezuelan four-star general serving as the current Minister of Defense for the National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela since 24 October 2014.
With Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu.
Padrino Lopez with his Brazilian counterpart Joaquim Silva e Luna.