President Nicolás Maduro meets with entrepreneurs of Venezuela
Statements made by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro about boosting national production to improve the economy during a meeting with entrepreneurs of the country. He also denounced the criminal violent plans plotted by the far-right opposition. teleSUR
Transcript
00:00The natural resources belong to Venezuelan people, not Elon Musk.
00:11They don't belong to Goliath.
00:15So then the economy is growing, the real economy is growing, 8% the first semester.
00:24I said the projection of 2025 is 8% more.
00:29And if the first semester which is a low semester above all January, February, March, the activity
00:35is lower.
00:36You know that.
00:37And if we grew 8%, what will be the second semester?
00:43Yesterday the CEPAL, the Commission, Economic Commission for Latin America, recalculated
00:49because they have recalculated the growth, the economic growth of Venezuela 2024 in 4%.
00:57They said no, that the numbers were moved and now it's 5%.
01:03It's good news for us, but I have a much better news for them.
01:08You know, put the batteries because the growth of Venezuela this year will be over 8% because
01:15now the first semester we have already a force, now a very beautiful impulse, spectacular
01:22impulse of 8%.
01:25And one of the engines, we define 18 engines of working, of work and growth.
01:32One of the engines, one of the main engines, you know what is?
01:37Nothing else than that the engine of entrepreneurship that in the first semester grew 50%, all the
01:45entrepreneurs engine 15%.
01:51What do we do to grow, to keep growing?
01:55We have to work professionally, scientifically, seriously.
02:00That is what we've been doing so far that the financing is moving, that the products
02:05moves on the market, facilitating that you can start exporting to support you, support,
02:12support, support the sector, the entrepreneur sector, both the public bank, the public programs,
02:19but also, also the private bank has to contribute.
02:25I committed myself to deliver $1 million from August to August 2025 and we have to commit
02:33and fulfill $1 million for, $1 million more of dreams for $1 more million of entrepreneurship.
02:40And look, the path 2021, we were on the pandemic, everybody with their masks and the 15th of
02:58October, the day that Celia's birthday, we approved, they approved in the National Assembly,
03:05the law for the promotion of the development of new entrepreneurship, 15th October, 2021.
03:12It was very early, afterwards, November the 10th, 2021, almost three years ago, we launched
03:27officially the National Registry of Entrepreneurship and the program to do business together, which
03:36had been developed with a good footing, 10th of November, that is to say, less than a month
03:43in the same 2021 that we had approved the law.
03:48Now we have 1,459,000 businessmen in this program, in the registry, in the National
03:55Registry, we are at a good pace and I'm sure that we will reach 3 million, 4 million entrepreneurs
04:03in the next years, 2025, 2026, 9th of February, 2022.
04:12We were starting almost to start vaccinating, February, April, they started the vaccines.
04:20Who of you took a vaccine for a week, everybody, and you went well?
04:28So the vaccine was not bad, no, because we just brought the best vaccine in the world.
04:32We brought the vaccine from China, Russia and Cuba, which didn't have any collateral
04:37effects, negative collateral effects.
04:429th of February, we launched the four axes for Malaysian funding unfair on the 22nd of April.
04:58It was created the National Fund for the Entrepreneurs with a capital, seed capital for NIL, creating
05:10things because that's what I learned from Chavez, one has to start betting in the same
05:16direction because all of a sudden of five bets, you win three or one, or perhaps in
05:25this case, we just win in all of them.
05:27Then afterwards, we created Credit Vida, the one that you have in the Venezuelan bank.
05:36The 22nd of April, 2022, 3rd of August, 2022, we exonerated in all the inscriptions rates
05:50in the different public institutions, Social Security Institute, 15 ministries of labor
05:57to promote the formalization process.
06:01You asked for that.
06:02The same 3rd of August, 2022, the creation of the Entrepreneur Digital Zone with the
06:12Bank of Venezuela.
06:15The same 3rd of August, 2022, the installation of the halls of attention for entrepreneurs.
06:2322nd of February, 2023, we were already out of the pandemic.
06:28We were free of pandemic.
06:30Venezuela was one of the first countries that flexibilized everything.
06:35When we had quarantine, there was a voluntary quarantine.
06:39Things have to be volunteer here, unconscious, or they are or they are not.
06:44You say there's a pandemic, we're going to take care of ourselves.
06:48So we have the medicines here.
06:49So you put on the mask, seven days we took care and seven days we were flexible.
06:54And then it was in the hands of the people.
06:58In other countries, it was forced.
07:00It was compulsory.
07:01They just persecuted people.
07:03They put it in prison.
07:05Well, February 22, 2023, exoneration of payment of procedures, the same as the formulas for
07:16the entrepreneurship on the 28th of June, 2023, exoneration of rates for the registry
07:25of patent for entrepreneurs in the registry of intellectual registry.
07:33On July 18, this year, a few days ago, extension of the validity for two years of the certificate
07:42of the National Registry of Entrepreneurs.
07:44It was also requested by you with the legal reform.
07:51And today, I'm going to proceed to sign this resolution, this presidential resolution,
08:03where I establish that is extended the program Export Easy so that 221 offices of Ipostel
08:14are specialized, get specialized and give all the support for the procedures and for
08:19the export, all the work.
08:22Here we have it here.
08:24Signed the resolution.
08:25It's signed already.
08:28Export a facile.
08:29Export easy.
08:30And let's follow up now, given the steps, to move on.
08:40Today, we have a number of funding that we have to deliver within the August fundings,
08:49financing, attention of three banks, from three banks, the bank, the Digital Bank of
08:59Workers that is going to deliver the first funding, the Venezuela Bank that is continuous
09:12delivering its financing, and the Treasurer Bank.
09:22I have the button here because we have to continue.
09:27The best money, the best currency, public bankers, comrades, President of Bank of Venezuela,
09:35President of the Bank of Workers, President of Bank of the Treasurer, the best currency,
09:42the best money that can be lent to finance projects in all the economy of Venezuela,
09:50and I know it, and I assure you, and I believe it, is the money that is given and that is
09:56to fund entrepreneurs in this country.
09:59So I proceed now to release 17,020 financing today, 15 August 2024.
10:14Those financing are now released so that they reach you and that you are able to transform
10:26and turn all this funding into work, products, because you have to understand well that what
10:44we are doing here is for the economy to work well, because the economy is working, even
10:50if it is working well each day, defeating the hyperinflation, we are going to a level
10:58of inflation, a minimum level of inflation in Venezuela, where we are winning over that
11:03war, we are winning the battle of growing the real economy with low inflation, demonstrating
11:12to Malay that he is a failure as an economist, as President of Argentina, and also taking
11:21all variables of the economy, the democratization of credit, the payment, the timely payment
11:29to credits, you pay 99% of the financing that is given to entrepreneurs, you pay it, and
11:37that money is good for new financing, it is a win-win.
11:51The economy then, with a new model, a very new productive model, growing the internal
11:58trade, strengthening the internal market, Venezuela has an internal market, very powerful,
12:04with capacity of consumption which is increasing, increasing the industrial activity, the industry
12:12is, Venezuela was also stricken by the sanctions, it is also going up, whoever is listening
12:21to me, industrialists of this country, you know that you are doing better, and what is
12:25coming is much better still, we are going up in the industry also, but I have been saying
12:33so far that we are doing, what we are doing with the entrepreneurship, with thousands
12:43of dead engines, because you know, when you have an activity of a manufacturer activity,
12:50or a trade activity, or an entrepreneur in relation to food stock, you have to take raw
12:56materials, and that raw material is, you have to look for them in the country.
13:04So the industry, the agriculture sector has to produce, has to activate at full, because
13:13if you have a business of empanadas, arepas, you have to buy the flour here, monthly you
13:23have to buy 100, 200, it's production, national production, so then it's a chain, it's a virtuous
13:32chain of work of production, commercialization, consumption, and then you have to generate
13:39employees, labor, jobs with good income, so you as entrepreneurs and people that are working
13:48with you have good income to improve their own life, quality of life, and then you generate,
13:55if we have 1,400,000 new entrepreneurs, certified entrepreneurs, how many employees, how many
14:02jobs could you generate, two millions, at least you would generate new jobs, so it's
14:10a circuit, it's a cycle of generation of products, generation of economic wealth, generation
14:16of employment with good income, increase of the quality of life of many people, so where
14:22are you doing that in your land, in Venezuela? The land of opportunities, and you're doing
14:30it, as I said, all the immigrants who want to come back, okay, come back with a project,
14:41most of them are actually outside, I know it, because they write to me, and the mission
14:50come back to our homeland is so that they can come back here, they are overexploited
14:56outside of Venezuela, they have either three jobs, they work from Sunday to Sunday, the
15:02only time free that they have is 10 o'clock in the evening until 5 o'clock in the morning
15:07only to sleep, and then sometimes they just send videos on TikTok, do you think that
15:17I don't know anything? I see everything, I'm a person, I'm a regular man, I'm just pending
15:24on everything, I know everything, and what I don't know, I'm told, so I've been despised,
15:35so I'm going to persecute, I'm going to get you, I'm going to deport you, in the United
15:38States they threaten them to deport, or am I saying something which is wrong? In Peru,
15:46in Chile, Ecuador, they are persecuted, they despise them, they tell them very terrible
15:51things, the xenophobia against the Venezuelan women, xenophobia against the young people,
16:00so you are the mirror, the beautiful mirror of Venezuela, because you're showing, you're
16:05demonstrating that in Venezuela you can do it, you can be happy in Venezuela, that it's
16:09possible to go into business, that we can be happy, that we can grow in Venezuela, I'm
16:17going to just put my own business of Salsa Brava, a discotheque of Salsa Brava, with
16:24Zylita, it's going to be called Rumbea with Zylita and Nico, you are invited, do you
16:38like the idea? Okay, you haven't realized that, you haven't thought about it, I just
16:45I leave that idea to you, that works, you know, that works a lot, that gives money,
16:50we're not going to sell liquor, it's going to be sold only juice, green juice, we're going to
16:59put some sour inside, so they're telling me that you can just put in Cocuy in the green juice,
17:08so Falcón y Lara are actually tied, so then I'm telling you that on Thursday today you're going
17:24and you're going to have fun around, those who have a boyfriend or girlfriend, you take his or
17:32her hand and go around, on Friday you cannot say anything, on Saturday and Sunday you invent
17:40something, you make up something, an outing there, an outing over there, or are we that way? Because
17:50in Venezuela we work to live and we don't live to work, that is the big difference with our
17:57philosophy, here in Venezuela we work to live for the happiness of the family, for the happiness
18:08of the family of yourself, and the Venezuelan people don't like to be exploited and we don't
18:15like to be maltreated, and we don't like to exploit people or to maltreat people, I know it,
18:20even Delcy, you know that Delcy, I know it, that even big businessmen that have 1,000 employees,
18:33I know employees that have a humane vision and they take care of their employees, that they
18:41take their vacation, that they go to holidays to celebrate their birthdays, you know that is
18:46Venezuela, that is the Venezuela is the land of humanism, Venezuela where everybody is equal,
18:52the land of love, although we love each other, the land of peace, that's the beautiful of Venezuela,
18:59that's the beauty of Venezuela. Do you like to hate? Do you like to be hated? Do you prefer love or hatred?
19:12Do you like violence? Do you prefer peace or violence? Do you like intolerance? People, intolerant people,
19:26that does not bear people that are thinking otherwise or differently, or do you like tolerance,
19:33the dialogue, the harmony, the good manners, democracy. The destination of Venezuela is a country of tolerance,
19:46of love, of peace, of democracy, of freedom, of brotherhood, like the Bible says, love each other,
19:58love yourself, each other, men and women, women and men, and by loving each other we are happy,
20:16and I have dedicated my life and I have sworn my life to live for love, for peace, for the beauty, for the big,
20:27and ask God to give us his blessing always. This is very beautiful here, Del C, to do business together,
20:41these are the values of Venezuela of the future, constancy, I always love you, I also love you and I love you all,
20:53and we are together with love because of our love, love is joining us together, we are not joined by hate,
21:04we are joined by love for life, for the family, for the homeland. I was saying how beautiful these concepts are.
21:15If we could form all people based on these concepts, we will heal the country of fascism, we heal all the wounds of hatred
21:27that the fascism saw, we have to heal those wounds, we have to say no to hate, to violence, to fascism, not to violence,
21:38peace, peace, or do I say it in English, peace, peace, love and peace, forever, forever, love and peace,
21:53look, constancy, perseverance, security, peace, peace, peace, peace, love, technology,
22:12we hear here confidence, loyalty, progress, faith, union, hope, and what is hope? Like the word says, hope is to expect the best.
22:33When you say I have hope in the future of this family, I hope in me, I hope in my future, I hope in Venezuela,
22:44it's because you expect, because you hope for the beautiful, for the good thing, for the best,
22:50and we have demonstrated that united, persevering, with constancy, with peace, and with love,
22:57we can move on with loyalty in the progress, and we have faith in ourselves, we have faith in what is ours.
23:07I have moved here with this, ok, now the financing has arrived to you?
23:15Bank of Venezuela.
23:17Ok, you have to wait, we're not going to leave here until you get the finance, ok, the technological team,
23:35I would like to pass, because I'm talking about healing the wounds, hate of violence, look,
23:52we have to heal the wounds created by the violent outbreak that we lived on the 29th, the 30th, and the 31st of July,
24:02and it was defeated in 48 hours.
24:08You saw what they did with the businesswoman and with her family in Guadalajara,
24:14we saved thousands of business people in the country of those gangs, criminals, drugged, and armed.
24:25Can we call that it was a protest? Is that a protest to burn the business of somebody?
24:34Is it a protest to burn a hospital, to burn a bus? That is called terrorism.
24:46You are much clearer than me.
24:50So we have a video here, I haven't seen it, they said that it's very good.
24:55I dare to put it on, and afterwards, after that video, we go to La Guaida so that you can see how wounds are healed,
25:04and it's completely healed, and it's much better. From the worst we take out the good.
25:09Go ahead with the video.
25:15A group of young people came here in this market, they just turned the door down, and they started looting all the stalls.
25:32They just destroyed all the glasses, and they took all the merchandise, they left nothing here.
25:37I know that you saw that in the picture, in the movies, in propaganda, people are full of hatred and violence.
25:47And you say, no, that cannot be happening here in Venezuela.
25:51And now that you see that, and in all this, the sacrifice of all the years you're trying to put up a business,
26:01this happened to you, and then you feel devastated.
26:06She knows what has been hard for them just to do something so small, business, even a sale of empanadas.
26:15Nobody has to destroy what you have made.
26:17So then you ask yourself, how do I start again?
26:20I thank very much, because they moved, and they came here right away.
26:31The response was very fast, not even a week, only three days.
26:36In three days, we had all some things, we have bought some things, and we were open.
26:42I wouldn't experience this anymore, not even myself or anybody else, that this happened again.
26:54It's material, but you know it hurts.
26:56We have to keep peace.
26:58So that you can see how we have to heal the wounds with work, with love, with patience, and no more violence, no more destabilization, no more guarimba.
27:21We are the ones in charge of peace, and I guarantee you, absolutely, that there will never be violence in this country ever,
27:33and I will guarantee peace, tranquility, coexistence, and the economic work, because we have to concentrate ourselves in the work, in the economy.
27:43If the economy goes well, we can do everything else.
27:48But so that the economy goes well, and when I talk about economy, I talk about your economy.
27:54The business people, corporative, community people, industrialists, agriculture people, production, economy, we are all economy.
28:06Or is the economy belongs to only one sector? No.
28:12Like some people have tried, some names have, because of their names, and blue blood, they think that they are the owners of the wealth of this country.
28:20It's not democracy.
28:22That can be considered a society.
28:24A society for what?
28:26A society to function, it has to take into account all the members.
28:31And the best way to live the true democracy, with the constitutional concept of social democracy, of justice, is that the capital is democratized, is that wealth is democratized,
28:48is that everybody has a way of living, of working, and to subsistence.
28:57But so that we can achieve that, we have to achieve also peace.
29:07Okay, we're going to Guaida now.
29:09Now we have, in the community market, in the parochial state of La Guaira, the authority of the special economy zone, Marcos Melendez,
29:24the businessman, Pedro Medina, the businesswoman, Medina Rodriguez,
29:30and I would like to see how they have healed the wounds of hatred, the wounds of violence in Guarimba.
29:37Okay, go ahead, Medina.
29:45Good afternoon, Comrade President.
29:47We are here, yes, with Medina Rodriguez and Pedro Medina,
29:51and we are touring around these markets, these commerce of the business people that were victims of violence, of the comanditos, of the terror comanditos.
30:00We are here with the first one of them.
30:03Okay, what is your name?
30:07I am very thankful because they fulfilled what they committed, what they promised, that they were going to help us immediately,
30:15and in three or four days, they helped us a lot, and by the weekend, we were working.
30:19And how is the sales going?
30:21Excellent.
30:22We're selling well in this business.
30:25So these are the wounds that have been healed.
30:28Okay, tell us a little bit, this experience, this nightmare that you lived in those moments.
30:33Okay, Mr. President, my name is Medina Rodriguez.
30:37In this community market, we are talking about, we are very happy with what is happening here,
30:43because in this market, something horrible happened, like a movie,
30:48but this movie, the following day, it was a dream, because the people that we have here,
30:54as you see, I have one of the girls that was attacked.
30:59What did you feel when you saw that from outside, and you saw that vandalism outside?
31:05What did you think?
31:06That was a very sad night to see our places empty, that a number of children,
31:15because they were actually boys, the ones that attacked our stalls.
31:19So many years that we have been working was a very sad moment, and a very disillusioning moment,
31:25and thank God, and thank the President that gave us the help, and thank God it was very rapid.
31:31Since we thank, because we are very happy, because that was, as she said, a dream that was broken,
31:39but afterwards, a dream that was made real afterwards.
31:42Thank you very much, Mr. President.
31:44Now we have Pedro Medina.
31:45Okay, tell us about, you are the father of one of the girls that was viral in the social media,
31:52and we know you are the founder.
31:54Tell us about the experience.
31:56Okay, Mr. President, how are you?
31:58My name is Pedro Medina.
31:59I'm here in the community market.
32:01I'm one of the founders of this market.
32:05I have been here for 11 years since it opened its door,
32:08and I thank you very much for everything that has been achieved.
32:10That night was horrible.
32:12I was sleeping, and they called me when I came here.
32:15There was nothing.
32:16I sat down to cry.
32:18My daughter was crying.
32:20My father was also crying.
32:24A comrade that came here, he lived the same situation experience with us.
32:29Good afternoon, Mr. President, Nicolas Maduro.
32:33Blessing to you.
32:34Thank you very much for everything, Mr. President.
32:36Thank you a lot.
32:39On behalf of this community market, I thank you,
32:43because you just actually supported and contributed with us and to allow us to move on.
32:49I also thank Governor Alejandro.
32:52That also helps a lot.
32:54He has supported us, and we're going upward with force and even stronger every day.
33:01Mr. President, you're very kind.
33:04We hear Comrade President touring around the market.
33:09We're going to the main entrance to the community market here.
33:12We're arriving here at your place.
33:17The place that was shown in the social media that was viral.
33:21Many people said that it was only one, but it was seven families that were affected here.
33:26We're arriving here at your place.
33:29Tell me about the changes, about the wounds that have been healed by the Bolivarian Revolution.
33:35What you see here was actually glass.
33:39When we came here that night, everything was broken, nothing.
33:42All the ultra-merchandise was gone.
33:46They looted everything.
33:47When we saw that, we started crying.
33:49I sat down, very sad, to see what to think, because all my dreams were actually gone.
33:55At the moment, when we were crying, the authorities came and helped us.
33:59They talked to us.
34:00The next day, they were cleaning everything.
34:02The same day, in the afternoon, they were starting to put out the glass windows.
34:06On Saturday, we were working, thank God, here again in our space,
34:11that our commander, Hugo Chavez, gave us, and thanks to the revolution and President Maduro.
34:16The invitation to this market, where we are now working, where we are showing,
34:24what message can you just send our community?
34:28Well, the message that I have, and I tell everybody, is that our market, for me,
34:34is the best market that we have in La Guaida, which is closer.
34:38So I invite all the business people that are here in this place, invite all their friends,
34:47because we have everything.
34:49There's nothing missing here.
34:51We have pharmacy, we have charcuterie, we have fishery, we have clothing,
34:57we have shoe stores.
35:02Look, President, we are live now, broadcast live,
35:07so we have a lot of places that we can actually hold hands and be more united
35:14and to work for Venezuela.
35:16We have to work for Venezuela to be united, more peace and harmony,
35:22and my pain is the pain of everybody, because what happened here, all the people were united.
35:28So I invite to our market, to our community market, we're working.
35:32We have everything here, and we invite you to come here,
35:36holding your hands with your friends, because, yes, we bet on Venezuela,
35:41and we bet on our project.
35:42We are the best country.
35:43And thank you, Mr. President.
35:45We hear Miguelina Rodriguez speaking.
35:48Your order was accomplished, and we have here our leader, the governor,
35:53that is now president in this market, in this community market.
35:57Welcome, Mr. Governor.
35:59I'm happy.
36:00Greetings, Mr. President.
36:02Thank you very much for so much love.
36:04I have to highlight that this place before, it was like a warehouse of a beer
36:10in the Bolivarian Revolution with all these people that are here.
36:19I was also selling, I was selling, selling clothing in plastic,
36:28and Garcia came here and constructed this beautiful market
36:34for more than 700 business people, and the family economy of these businessmen
36:41have flourished, and they have been creating a magic circuit
36:45that has been allowing us to rebirth the Venezuelan economy
36:49in the middle of so much cruelty and sanctions against the people.
36:52This is not a coincidence that in the middle of violence,
36:56they had tried to burn this market down to loot seven business,
37:01because now it's part of the plan that what they had to attack
37:06was what is the result of the efforts of the revolution
37:09with the people, organized people.
37:11That's why they came here to attack with a lot of cruelty these places,
37:15but here the people's power like a phoenix bird with more force than ever.
37:24I'm very much thankful to you.
37:27God bless you.
37:28We love you, Nicolas Maduro.
37:30We love you here in La Guaira, and I love very much La Guaira.
37:34That's an experience.
37:37It's very good to just draw conclusions.
37:41This boy, Alejandro Terán, is a boy from a neighborhood of La Guaira,
37:47and I saw him this day when everything was recuperated,
37:54delivering the property of the places, giving a step forward like we should do.
38:03If you are bitten, we have to move forward.
38:08If your business is burned, you recuperate it and to move on.
38:15This has been a psychological operation to poison through TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X,
38:28the social media to infect Venezuela with hatred.
38:33That is why I say no to hatred, to infect Venezuela,
38:39and they use all the means available to reach the people to what they like.
38:46So now they're using a number of influencers, but it's repeated.
38:53Do you remember the concert in Cúcuta?
38:5622 of February of 2019, a concert, and they were a little bit people that were famous.
39:05All of them failed.
39:09Those who sang there were actually defeated because those who met with us withers away.
39:19Don't ask me why, but they withered.
39:24All of those who went to Cúcuta, they were stolen.
39:30They were frauded.
39:32So Guaidó stole the money because they thought that because they sent some musicians to play there,
39:39and the next day everybody could go inside Venezuela and conquer it.
39:43They look for influencers because on the social network, we follow the influencers.
39:50We follow the artists and the singers because we like the songs,
39:53and afterwards they look for the singer, and they blackmail him.
39:57So Delsi is a very famous singer, and then they tell Delsi,
40:05if you don't come to the concert, we're going to do something.
40:09In Miami on Saturday, we will freeze your account.
40:14We will open a trial, and you cannot manage to present yourself in the United States or any other place.
40:21So then Delsi is just pushed against the wall because she's an artist.
40:25She's a singer.
40:27She's not a politician.
40:29So they do that because the influencers, they have been controlled by the social media.
40:38I would like to speak with truth.
40:40I'm not going to be shut up.
40:42I'm going to name them with name and surname, each one of them the same as I named them during the concert in Cucuta.
40:49Now there is now a woman by the name of Lele Pons,
40:56and she from Miami wants to put up a concert in Miami to impose a government in Venezuela,
41:03but who told Lele Pons that she's a politician?
41:09Who said that Lele Pons and the artists that are summoned, the same as the Cucuta concert,
41:16should determine the life of the whole country?
41:22Okay, they look for so that you see those people in the network and to influence the mind of people,
41:30and I tell them to Lele Pons, don't underestimate the people of Venezuela.
41:36You don't know the force, the spiritual force of the people of Venezuela,
41:39and you can conspire from Miami, but in Venezuela, the Venezuelans are the ones that rule,
41:45and the Venezuelans are the ones that rule Venezuela, the women and men of Venezuela.
41:49So now Lele Pons is the CNA.
41:54What does Lele Pons know about the CNA?
41:57Oh, how much money she's been given.
42:02Take care with the manipulation.
42:06Be careful, be careful with the manipulation.
42:09Alert, be conscious about the manipulations.
42:12So as we did with the artists in the concert of Cucuta,
42:16we, the people of Venezuela, will do today, even with more force,
42:21the people of Venezuela to those manipulators,
42:24to those who would like to clean the faces of the fascists and those violent in Venezuela,
42:30we will tell them we don't want intervention in Venezuela,
42:33we don't want fascism, we don't want violence,
42:36we want peace, we want tranquility, and we want Venezuela to be respected.
42:46I'm in all the games, and if you look for me, you will find me.
42:52And I trust in the conscience of the young people, of the women and men of Venezuela.
42:59And let not be shut up.
43:02Nobody, no artist, national or international, should be blackmailed by these fascists in the world.
43:10We're going to put our stance to give a lesson to those who are threatening, to those who blackmail.
43:18So those who let themselves be blackmailed once,
43:22that's why I woke up on Sunday, last Sunday,
43:27in my mind with a phrase, and I said, what is this?
43:32The spirit of Jesus in the desert.
43:36I told them about this a few days ago, and I told Silvia,
43:41I woke up this morning thinking about the spirit of Jesus in the desert,
43:46and I searched when the devil invited our Lord to the desert 40 days,
43:59and he tried to deceive him 40 days without eating.
44:09You are the son of God.
44:12If you have power, okay, turn that stone into bread.
44:16And Jesus told him, not only of bread the man lives, but also he lives of the word of God, the first round.
44:28Afterwards the devil told him, he took him to the summit of a mountain,
44:35and below there was a cliff several kilometers,
44:39and he told him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down,
44:44and of course the angels will pick you up so that you don't die.
44:49And he told the devil, you should not tempt the force of God ever.
44:55Second round.
44:59And then at the end he told him, now since the devil was not convincing him,
45:05he told him, look, he took him to another mountain.
45:09Everything that you saw there is yours.
45:13I will deliver to you all the kingdoms in the world.
45:16You will be the king of the world. I will name you that.
45:20And Jesus Christ told him, I don't believe in you, devil.
45:28Go away.
45:30And with the spirit, the force of the spirit in the desert, he just scared the devil away,
45:36and 40 days and 40 nights he didn't fall in the temptation, not even in his lies.
45:44And that's why I say that, because we should have the spirit of Jesus Christ,
45:50the Son of God, our Lord, for all the temptations, all the satanic temptations,
45:58all the evil temptations that are going around, all the manipulations, and all the lies.
46:03The only truth in the end is what we are.
46:08Like Shakespeare, to be or not to be.
46:12And Venezuela has decided to be a free country in peace, sovereign and prosperous country.
46:21Okay, explain to me briefly how did you deliver the property to these business people?
46:33I think it's very beautiful, your action.
46:37Okay, he just stared.
46:39When the right is attacking us, we respond.
46:44Strengthening their revolution with more justice, social justice.
46:48So far they have clients of this market, but since we have already observed the evil of the right that comes here to loot,
46:58that comes here in a vengeful attitude because perhaps they prefer to have here the former owners of the beer.
47:08So let's make those people that were clients to become the proprietors of their commerce,
47:20so that the right never come here to attack them.
47:23We are protecting them entirely.
47:25So that means to strengthen the revolution, as you have already told us.
47:29Go ahead, Mr. President.
47:31I'm very happy, and I would like to congratulate these old proprietors, these old owners,
47:43because with this strong engine that is the entrepreneurs, we have to create thousands of job sources.
47:53We have to create the wealth, the social wealth distributed in products and in life expectancy.
48:01This is a very certain path.
48:04We are on the right side of history.
48:06This is the road.
48:08We should continue on that road.
48:11We have found it.
48:13Then after many generations, we found it, and more than a century and a half, Venezuela found its path.
48:20This is the road, the road to development, the working with perseverance, with love,
48:26to production of wealth and prosperity, collective prosperity, shared, to create thousands of jobs
48:36and millions of people, business people, of proprietors that build their own destiny.
48:43I congratulate you.
48:44You can count on me with all my support.
48:47Long live the entrepreneurs of Venezuela.
48:49Long live peace.
48:50Long live life.
48:54God bless you, all of you.
48:56Thank you very much.
48:57We go, we continue our business.
48:59Thank you very much.
49:00Thank you very much.
49:15We went live to Venezuela, where the constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro,
49:19made statements during a meeting with Venezuelan entrepreneurs.
49:22During his remarks, the president informed that he is set to sign a presidential resolution
49:27to extend a decree that benefits entrepreneurs in their imports and export activities,
49:32and also informed that the government will guarantee the financing of over 17,000 projects
49:37for the country's entrepreneurs.
49:39The president commented that the national resources of Venezuela belong only to the Venezuelan people,
49:45and highlighted how the country's economy is growing at a steady pace, thanks to the people's will,
49:50the entrepreneurs' contributions and the projects proposed by the government for the past years,
49:55which have helped the country to success despite the sanctions imposed by the US and its Western allies.
50:01The president concluded that Venezuela is a land of peace,
50:05and called on the people to heal the wounds left by the far-right wing's violent actions
50:10following the elections of July 28th.
50:13This is all for the moment. Stay tuned with From the South.