The National Armed Forces in the Bolivarian Revolution

In Venezuela, in the middle of the Bolivarian Revolution, the National Armed Forces become one of the main organizations with the capacity to push the objectives of the Bolivarian Revolution national project. Furthermore, the military have a political role to fulfill. This has entailed, since the arrival of president Hugo Chavez to power, the put into operation of a new military thought based on concepts of national integral defense and security, the adoption of the principle of co-responsibility between the state and society in these realms, and the National Armed Forces' composition restructuring.