Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting with members of the Sao Paulo forum and left-wing parties in Latin America in Managua, Nicaragua January 11,2017. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
CARACAS (Reuters) - His finger on a rifle trigger and wearing an olive green hat, President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday oversaw military exercises in crisis-wrought Venezuela, which he says is under threat of imperialist" invasion due to its oil wealth.
More than half a million soldiers and civilians were deployed in the drill. State television broadcast footage of soldiers camouflaged as bushes shouting "socialist fatherland!" while commanders brandished Russian-made military equipment.
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