National Armed Forces of The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - Doctrine

Doctrine

The Bolivarian national army force (FANB) has its own doctrine charged Bolivarian and socialist principles, and also contributes to the development of the Venezuelan people integrated in the work of social mission promoted by the national Government; This new doctrine replaced the doctrine of national security, imposed by the United States in the Decade of the 1960s. In the new defense doctrine, it replaces the people as potential enemy, and sets greater civil-military interaction. The new Bolivarian Constitution promulgated in 1999, is unmistakable when specified, in its preamble, the democratic, anti-imperialist, condition as well as the defence of the principles of non-intervention and self-determination of peoples, as the momentum and consolidation of Latin American integration.

“The people of Venezuela, in exercise of their creative powers and invoke God's protection, the historical example of our liberator Simon Bolivar and the heroism and sacrifice of our Aboriginal ancestors and of precursors and a free and sovereign homeland forgers; the Supreme goal of redefining the Republic to establish a democratic, participatory society and leading, multi-ethnic and multicultural in a State of Justice, federal and decentralized, which consolidate the values of freedom, independence, peace, solidarity, the common good, territorial integrity, coexistence and the rule of law for this and future generations; ensure the right to life, to work, to culture, to education, to social justice and equality without discrimination or subordination of any; promote peaceful cooperation between Nations and impulse and consolidate Latin American integration in accordance with the principle of non-intervention and self-determination of peoples, the universal and indivisible guarantee of human rights, the democratization of international society, nuclear disarmament, the ecological balance and environmental legal goods such as common and inalienable heritage of humanity; in exercise of its originating power represented by the National Constituent Assembly, by a free vote and democratic referendum he decreed the following”. Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 1999

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