Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro answers the questions of teleSUR correspondent, Luis Guillermo García, on how the country is living the voting day of the referendum on the Essequibo. Maduro states that Venezuelans are voting as a united people. teleSUR
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 Good morning. We started the questions round with Guillermo Garcia from Telesur.
00:07 Thank you.
00:11 Have a nice day,
00:15 President and all of you. It's a pleasure to be here in this
00:20 crucial moment for Venezuela and the world.
00:23 So,
00:28 it's a political moment, time.
00:30 After all
00:37 things, all clashes
00:40 that Venezuela has gone through, in which
00:45 the national sovereignty has been
00:50 defended.
00:54 Well, now opposition is united in this process, but on this side
01:00 which historical time is leaving Venezuela
01:06 in the head of all the clashes before?
01:12 So,
01:16 regarding the Eastern Caribbean,
01:18 some nations
01:23 are opposed to
01:25 have different opinions about this matter.
01:28 So,
01:30 what's
01:32 the importance of this affair
01:35 with Guyana?
01:38 What's the importance of this Ezequiel dispute?
01:43 We have just remembered the
01:52 200th anniversary of Monroe's doctrine.
01:55 And so, I think Venezuela is sending a message how things are going through.
02:02 Well, thank you very much
02:05 to Telesur and Guillermo Garcia.
02:07 We have seen
02:10 how during this electoral process, unprecedented and historical
02:18 process, there has been
02:22 an awakening of the national soul of
02:26 our Simon Bolivar's legacy. So, this is a process we have been dealing with as
02:33 Venezuelans, as citizens.
02:36 We have not been here, we have not voted as
02:42 opposition, or right or left, or white or black, but just we are both voting as
02:51 Venezuela, with just a single flag, with just a single feeling.
02:55 And so, all voters should feel the same, connected with the spirit of
03:01 liberators of just one continent. That is Venezuela.
03:06 Our vote is to respect Venezuela and all the Venezuelan people,
03:12 beyond the
03:15 political parties' preferences.
03:20 I felt today as Venezuelan
03:24 in this region of Caracas, in which it began to
03:34 well, in this land, in Caracas, was born Simon Bolivar and
03:43 other
03:46 patriots as Francisco de Miranda in the western,
03:50 Luisa Cáceres in the eastern,
03:54 and so on. We could be here all day
03:58 remembering the list of heroes and heroines,
04:02 patriots.
04:04 So, just feel this national spirit
04:10 that has made us re-encounter ourselves with this powerful spirit of defending
04:16 what is ours, of rejecting
04:19 the
04:24 usurpation of the British government.
04:26 The question about the Caribbean,
04:36 from Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro,
04:40 from a border of colonialism. So, we are sorting out a conflict from the Constitution.
04:50 So, we are going to be very
05:03 more, we are going to be stronger because we are a powerful
05:09 country. So, the voice of Venezuela is going to be heard.
05:15 So, because in Venezuela decides just a whole people, and the Caribbean
05:25 peoples are going to be with Venezuela.
05:31 Venezuela is the inclusive one, the
05:35 anti-colonialism, the country imperialism.
05:39 So, it's the struggle against
05:43 imperialism. And so, we are making history with this consultative referendum,
05:51 blessed
05:53 consultative referendum
05:55 of our Constitution, of our sacred Constitution. So, I am sure
06:01 that the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are going to understand the
06:07 loud and clear voice of Venezuela.