Venezuela | Pres. Maduro leads National Defense Council Meeting
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro led a joint meeting of the Council of State and the Council of Defense. Since July 30, the Council of State and the Defense Council have been in permanent session to address and confront the terrorist actions of the far-right groups. teleSUR
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00:00On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro led a joint meeting of the Council of State
00:05and the Council of Defense.
00:07In the meantime, the framework with the nation's political high command was held at a place
00:13known as the Yellow House, headquarters of the foreign ministry in the city of Caracas.
00:19Since July 30th, the Council of State and Defense have been in permanent session to
00:24address and confront the terrorist actions of the far-right groups after Nicolás Maduro
00:29was re-elected president of the country.
00:32It is worth noting that the meeting also was attended by Venezuelan Vice President Delsi
00:37Rodríguez, the Attorney General Tarek William Saab, and the military high command.
00:49I was saying it with some delegates who arrived from Spain before the elections on July 28th.
00:54In Venezuela, the future of humanity is being defined, just as it was in 1936.
01:02In his speech during the meeting, the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro said that his
01:06government is fighting to guarantee peace in the country.
01:14Today in Venezuela, under very different conditions, the same battle is being fought in peace with
01:19a powerful and strong institutional framework, a people's power with the territorial capacity
01:29to guarantee peace, work and the life of the people, a cohesive and patriotic military
01:38power ready to fight with the will to fight, with its own doctrine, with its own strategic
01:47concept, the backbone of the defense of the homeland.