``You should administer your victory properly, but already you are covering it in sh*t. It's a sh*tty victory, and our — call it, defeat — is one of courage, of valor, of dignity . . . We haven't moved a millimeter and we won't.''

Chávez used the expletive twice more during the conference.

Chávez on Wednesday also denied any such military pressures on him to accept defeat, saying, ``The day a general, however much of a friend he may be, puts pressure on me, I'll sack him immediately.''