SOUTH AMERICA / VENEZUELA Arreaza to the US: Venezuelan Armed Forces 'never breaks down'

Venezuela's chancellor, Jorge Arreaza, has emphasized Friday that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) will "never bow down" to Trump, hours after the US has included four Venezuelan military on its sanction list. "The FANB will never bow to any foreign power, and much less to the imperialist and warlike forces of the supremacist government of Donald Trump (US president). We demand respect, "Arreaza wrote in his Twitter account, in which he posted an official statement rejecting Washington's recent sanctions. The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, addressing Heather Nauert, a spokesman for the US State Department, has asked him to respect the Bolivarian, anti-imperialist and independence character of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, "whose best interest is to defend the independence of the Venezuelan people, to obey their popular mandate and the authority of the Government of Venezuela. " Earlier, the US official had conditioned on Twitter that "members of the Venezuelan Armed Forces can avoid sanctions by respecting the rule of law and changing their behavior so that sanctions are eliminated