"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to create a new cell phone app that will allow citizens to report to authorities everything they see and everything they hear, 24 hours a day. The stated goal of the initiative, he said, is to strengthen popular intelligence and continue guaranteeing peace. Maduro added that the plan to expand this network of informants announced amid the escalating"
"The VenApp system [an application created by the Maduro administration that allows citizens to report public service problems and has a phone line for filing complaints] must proceed to facilitate this mechanism, a new application, together with the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, the Communal Militia Units, and the Popular Bases of Integral Defense, integrated into the National Territorial Defense System, said Maduro, who has tightened his grip on power as tensions with Washington escalate"
President Nicolas Maduro directed the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to develop a cell-phone application enabling citizens to report everything they see and hear around the clock. The initiative aims to strengthen popular intelligence and guarantee peace by expanding a network of informants supported by existing military organizational mechanisms. VenApp will be used to facilitate the mechanism alongside a new application integrated with the FANB, Communal Militia Units, and Popular Bases of Integral Defense within the National Territorial Defense System. The government also plans mass installation of surveillance cameras as part of Peace Quadrants amid escalating tensions with the United States.
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