[News] Venezuela Honors Women Militia Members, Condemns Trump's Misogyny

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Venezuela Honors Women Militia Members, Condemns Trump's Misogyny
orinocotribune
September 25, 2025
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[image: Venezuelan militia women being decorated by the FANB. Caracas,
September 23, 2025. Photo: EFE.]

Venezuelan militia women being decorated by the FANB. Caracas, September
23, 2025. Photo: EFE.

Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com <https://orinocotribune.com/>)—Venezuela’s
Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) has decorated five female militia
members, declaring them “defenders of the homeland” in a direct response to
what Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino described as a supremacist and
misogynistic social media post by the president of the US empire, Donald
Trump.

“The militiawomen I have here to my right, who come from the state of Sucre
and whose hands will not shake,” the minister said this Tuesday, September
23, “were decorated today, on the instructions of our commander-in-chief,
Nicolás Maduro, by the Bolivarian National Armed Force.”

The women, each holding machine guns and wearing militia gear, were honored
on a stage set up on Bolívar Avenue in Caracas. The emblematic thoroughfare
was filled with a massive crowd that had marched through the capital to
reject US imperial military threats and warmongering rhetoric.

*Condemnation of ‘supremacist’ mockery*
The event was a response to a sarcastic social media post by Trump on
Monday. Commenting on a video from a Bolivarian Militia training session
that showed an overweight participant carrying an automatic weapon, he
wrote, “Top secret: We have caught the Venezuelan military in training. A
very serious threat!”

Minister Padrino condemned Trump’s actions as “just another farce” and an
“act of little human value,” as well as an act of “disrespect.”

“Their mockery is racism […] that can’t be called anything other than
supremacism,” he added. “They see the rest of the world in a minuscule way,
because of course, they have imperial hegemony and all their technology and
military equipment to intimidate and frighten the peoples of the world.”

*Women vow to defend their homeland*
One of the decorated women, Isabel Arias, spoke before the crowd, saying
she was willing to “pick up a rifle” as many times as necessary to defend
peace in her country.

“My name is Isabel Arias, a woman of the communes, a worker, a fighter,”
the young militia woman said. “Today, my spirit is higher than ever.
Nothing and no one will trample on the dignity of Venezuelan women. If I
have to pick up a rifle 20,000 times to defend peace in Venezuela, I will
be here 20,000 times to do it. We are brave women, warriors, and fighters
who will give our all for our families, our children, our homeland, and for
peace. Venezuelan women are to be respected, and that is why we are here.”

“Today, I feel more morale-boosting than ever,” she said. “Nothing and no
one will trample on the dignity of Venezuelan women.”

Caracas Mayor Carmen Meléndez also condemned Trump’s remarks, noting she
had “never seen” in her life “a president mock women” in such a way.

She stated that “the women of Venezuela have the strength to defend their
homeland,” adding, “I tell that president that a woman gave birth to him,
he has a wife and daughters, so Venezuelan women are to be respected.”

Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff

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