Venezuela, over 200 international observers attend popular consultation on communes

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*Observers learn concerning issues of communes *Observers delve into needs and strategies of communes *Consultation facilitates improving welfare of citizens

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00:00International observers accompany the process of popular consultation on

00:03communities projects. Correspondent Gladys Quezada will provide us for

00:07details on the experience. On Sunday more than 200 international observers

00:14gathered in Venezuela to accompany the popular consultation on communes. They

00:20came to see how the people are being asked about their specific needs and to

00:25allow solutions to be found from there. Many come from progressive social

00:30movements and consider this process as a possible path. I found this process so

00:37far already learning about it very inspirational. I'd like to bring back

00:41that feeling of inspiration struggle from Venezuela back to Australia. In their

00:46trip to Caracas the observers had the opportunity to learn how each commune in

00:51assemblies and grassroots discussions identified their most pressing problems

00:56improving water and electricity services repairing common infrastructure

01:02watching over the state of the highways and the roads. Concerns that are not far

01:08from their own. For others it is an experience that they hope will be

01:12replicated at home. The people participation in the in the decision

01:19making of the various various projects in the community that is something very

01:23impressive like the people decide and vote which projects they want the

01:29government to fund that's something I've not seen anywhere else so it's something

01:36very nice. In their goal of taking part in the consultation many of them took

01:41route to the hills in Antimano. There they learned about communal strategies

01:47like a social dining room that fits the most vulnerable or a textile workshop

01:53that makes and provides free of charge school clothes. Many take with them the

01:58impression of a process as wide and complex as this one. Others understand

02:03that more about popular power and some take another values. Hugo Chavez to start to

02:11reorganize political social processes in Venezuela many years ago and now

02:17Nicolas Maduro more to continue this process in Venezuela so I think it will

02:24be a very good experience personal experience and of course for future

02:31processes too. From the consultation will come out winning projects that aim to

02:37improve the life of Venezuelans from their own decision under the premise

02:42that popular power is possible.

02:45Gladys Quezada, Tel Azul, Caracas, Venezuela.

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