Caracas, Aug. 26 -- Venezuela has mobilized all of its national forces to ensure protection after "illegal" US threats, which are directed not only against the country but against the entire continent, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today.

"The nation's might is now mobilized to protect against the illegal, immoral, and criminal threats from the empire of the United States of America against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, against South America, and against Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole," Maduro said during a televised broadcast of his programme "Con Maduro ".

Yesterday, Maduro announced the extension of the campaign to register and enlist in the Bolivarian Militia, which attracted many volunteers across the c...