Nicolás Maduro: the country celebrated another electoral victory on August 25
Speech by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the Extraordinary ALBA Summit. teleSUR
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00:00Again, let's listen to the statements of President Nicolás Maduro.
00:07Greetings to here in Miraflores Palace.
00:30Ambassadors, delegates, international observers who have come here for the consultation,
00:43for the communal popular consultation, for the great communal popular consultation.
00:52Greetings to the Executive Secretary of the ALBA-TCP, Jorge Raza, and Foreign Minister Iván Gil, Deputy Ministers.
01:10I really appreciate the sum of this important meeting.
01:15It is the 11th extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alliance to my brother President of Cuba, Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez,
01:35who is on recovery, and to my brother and partner Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua,
01:48from the Sandinista Christian Bolivarian and always rebellious Nicaragua,
01:55and to our brothers of Bolivia, of the plurinational state of Bolivia present here,
02:08and to our partners, Ralph Gonsalves, a warm hug,
02:20Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and Grenadines,
02:30and who is the youngest of all, Prime Minister of Grenadines, Ditson Mitchell.
02:40We gave a warm hug the last time we saw each other, and right now he is receiving carry-on.
02:51Likewise, Roosevelt Skerritt from Dominica, and to partner, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia,
03:04Pierre, who is also a young man, Philippe, greetings, solidarity greetings,
03:13Denzil Douglas from Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Honduran Ambassador Scarlett Romero present here,
03:23especially here at the extraordinary summit of ALBA,
03:28Antigua Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines,
03:38Saint Kitts and Nevis, Honduras as a special guest, ambassadors present,
03:45and from here, from Caracas, Venezuela, I send you an affectionate greeting,
03:52the Bolivarian Caracas, the rebellious Caracas in front of the imperialism.
04:02We are on August 26, Monday, August 26, precisely, beginning a working week,
04:16which it is on due time, this summit, to begin this summit, from our siblings here,
04:27and we are transmitting live by Telesur chain, and besides,
04:38on a broad network, on a broad communication alternative networks,
04:48so thousands of YouTubers are broadcasting this, we are transmitting on TikTok, on Instagram,
04:59on Facebook live, among others, etc, etc, etc.
05:07On Telegram, despite CEO of Telegram has been imprisoned,
05:14part of the persecution policy of the maximum pressure of blackmail to break down,
05:22to break off social alternative media worldwide,
05:28the power abuse in the world, persecuting to submit,
05:36I don't know if that beautiful screen can be on the general screen for those who see us on Telesur,
05:47the peoples of the Caribbean, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia,
05:55and beyond, beyond from beyond, can see precisely,
06:01the beauty of the Bolivarian alliance for the peoples of our Americas,
06:09the core, the vital core of the great homeland,
06:14vital core for the independence, for sovereignty of the great homeland.
06:25Well, we have welcomed, we have received the solidarity, support, love,
06:40by governments and peoples of the world,
06:45in this process in which Venezuela is resilient to the imperialist attacks of the West,
07:00another attack of the West, and we are telling the truth,
07:08but we also have to tell that it is not any attack,
07:13it is an attack with a criminal character, with a criminal nature,
07:19our people have received an attack from every point, from each axis,
07:32it has faced and defeated with the constitution in its hands,
07:39a cyber fascist criminal attack,
07:45and we are telling the historical truth,
07:50for those who want to believe in facts,
07:58who want to be updated about the historical events, historical truths,
08:06it is not the first coup d'etat, it is not the first imperialist attack,
08:12but it has particular traits,
08:17it is not our intention in this gratitude for the vital core of the ALBA-TCP,
08:29the vital core of independence, sovereignty, the real freedom of our continent,
08:35it is not our intention to review all these attempts and attacks,
08:43we could only have a comparison, only one,
08:49Venezuela has gone through,
08:53Venezuela suffered an aggression in 2002,
09:00that ended with a coup d'etat on April 11, 12 and 13,
09:06a coup d'etat from the elites, from the oligarchies,
09:12prepared, financed, monitored by the then Bush president,
09:22President Bush,
09:24that coup d'etat ended with the kidnapping and assassination attempt of then-president Hugo Chávez Frías,
09:36and it was labeled as the first media coup d'etat attempt in history,
09:45that was recorded,
09:49and it was given by a TV channel here in Caracas,
09:57there all coup-mongers met,
10:02the owners of all private TV channels,
10:07here there are lots of youngsters who didn't believe that time,
10:13when TV shows were determining,
10:18the headlines of the press were determining,
10:23and they just broadcasted that those news TVs,
10:31and the influence of television and radio at that time,
10:38the coup d'etat against Commander Hugo Chávez was a media coup d'etat by the oligarchies,
10:46it was announced, prepared, directed, endorsed and recognized as such by the U.S. government,
10:55and its allies back then,
11:00one of the fundamentals who participated as a hunter,
11:07was then Spanish President José María Aznar,
11:14a dog hunter,
11:17with the pardon of those dog hunters,
11:22because José María Aznar is not an intelligent person,
11:31so it was the U.S. government,
11:34who came out to recognize alongside the government of Spain,
11:39the coup d'etat, the coup-monger government,
11:44who disintegrated, who broke off all public powers,
11:53it cut off the legislative power, the electoral power,
12:02it defeated the executive power,
12:06and it self-proclaimed president,
12:13and he disintegrated all governorates, all mayor's offices,
12:26and it got rid of the Bolivarian character of the republic,
12:37and it abrogated the constitution with a decree,
12:42it hid the portrait of our liberator, Simón Bolívar,
12:50it left him under the oblivion,
12:54but under 47 hours there was an insurrection,
12:59a popular insurrection that managed to rescue the constitution,
13:05and there were resumed all public powers,
13:11and the insurrection made possible to rescue commander,
13:17and save our commander Hugo Chávez Freya,
13:21it was a historical deed,
13:25it was a truthful historical deed,
13:32then it came the history that all we know about,
13:43they haven't stopped their efforts of assaulting the power,
13:50the office of trying to take over the power of Venezuela,
13:57trying to recolonize Venezuela,
14:00it is not about that in Venezuela there is an alternative democratic policy,
14:07but it is about the existence of political leaderships,
14:15of political groups that represent the interests of oligarchies,
14:20of the more radical oligarchies that are prone to those fascist ideologies,
14:31and when we denounced that years earlier,
14:35and even commander Chávez said the emergence of those far-right fascist sectors,
14:44who denied the law, who disregarded the public powers,
14:52they intended a bluff bath in Venezuela,
14:57they are sowing hate, division, intolerance,
15:03they intend the division of our countries,
15:11there were some, even from the left wings,
15:15they criticized the commander Chávez,
15:18and described him as an overreacting president,
15:23partners, prime ministers, presidents,
15:28it is very clear that there is an emergence, a resumption of fascism,
15:34which some call neo-fascism,
15:38and it is right, neo-fascism, it's okay,
15:43but undoubtedly they have come here with the force of hate,
15:55of recolonization and delivery of our countries to the United States of America,
16:02there is no doubt about it,
16:04today, in Europe, in Latin America, in the United States of America,
16:11there is an outbreak, a powerful outbreak of fascism,
16:17it is a reality,
16:20and we said it yesterday,
16:22in a podcast program,
16:25on a podcast in a program, which I invited you to see,
16:30by my YouTube channel,
16:33we have to get it translated in English,
16:38and we explained the origins and similarities between fascism, neo-Nazism and Francoism,
16:53100 years ago, Mussolini, Hitler and Franco,
16:58and the reemergence of those Nazi currents,
17:04of those Nazi trends,
17:07and the linking of those fascism, neo-Nazism,
17:18with the great monarchic powers,
17:23and of the US transnational powers,
17:27these are historical truths,
17:34which have been investigated and demonstrated,
17:38how fascism was the terrified reaction of the dominant classes,
17:59and in some places here in Venezuela,
18:04those billionaires who believed to be owners of the nations of our societies,
18:13today, fascism, neo-Nazism and the far right,
18:18has been emerging from the hands of Elon Musk,
18:27Goliath has a last name,
18:31and it is Elon Musk and company,
18:35he is the representation of radical trends,
18:42and with all his communicational and financial power,
18:47Elon Musk and Zuckerberg, Epsom and company,
18:52they believe it is the time to assault the political power,
18:57in which natural resources are,
19:00in which resistant forces are,
19:05and they are trying to assault the power in the first world,
19:09in the United States, in London, Europe,
19:12it is a debate,
19:16it is an ongoing debate,
19:19we are not lying, we are providing evidence,
19:22there is enough historical evidence about these truths,
19:26and I am just telling you,
19:29I am just repeating those truths,
19:32which are recorded, which are proven,
19:35and then in Venezuela, it has been proven,
19:40and also in other places,
19:42we are facing a cyber coup d'etat,
19:46a cyber fascist coup d'etat made by criminals,
19:51that the Venezuelan people,
19:57united in a political civilization,
20:01they achieved to defeat those criminals,
20:06and we are consolidating our victory,
20:09Bolivia, dear brother Luis Arce,
20:13president of the plurinational state,
20:17our beloved Bolivia,
20:20the preferred nation of liberator Simon Bolivar,
20:26Bolivia went through a coup d'etat in 2019,
20:30and the ALBA TCP reacted,
20:33and they rehearsed it there in 2019,
20:37and then they applied here in Venezuela,
20:41the coup d'etat executed by criminal groups,
20:45who attacked mayor offices,
20:49main leaders,
20:52and they threatened family members of president Evo Morales,
20:57and they were linked to groups,
21:00regrettably, they betrayed their presets,
21:06as the police corps,
21:09and it was an offensive against the whole Bolivian state,
21:13and so they,
21:17they,
21:20they showed violence to the Bolivian society,
21:26as a criminal assaulted you with a gun,
21:32and menaced you,
21:35well president Lucho, president Daniel,
21:38president Diaz-Canel,
21:41prime ministers of the Caribbean, here in Venezuela,
21:45in Venezuela there was a campaign,
21:48before July 28, during July 28,
21:52and after July 28,
21:54which has the aim of bursting out with violence,
22:05leading Venezuela to a violence state,
22:09and to a pre-civil war,
22:13they wanted to take Venezuela to a total confrontation,
22:17and then they would ask for an intervention here,
22:21with all the lines,
22:24not a diplomatic intervention,
22:27but a military intervention,
22:30that was the plan that commander Chavez denounced,
22:34on February 29,
22:37in 2004,
22:40in front of all Venezuelans,
22:43when he declared the anti-imperialist character of the Bolivarian revolution,
22:48there in 2004,
22:512004, 20 years earlier,
22:54how many times they have rehearsed this kind of military coup d'etat,
22:59so it is a very,
23:02it comes at a new time,
23:05this summit full of courage, full of bravery,
23:08full of truth, full of patriotism,
23:11full of Bolivarian vision,
23:14full of anti-imperialist vision,
23:17it is a summit that allows to ratify
23:20the deepening character of our union,
23:25unity, from solidarity,
23:28on behalf of the Venezuelan people,
23:31I really appreciate our siblings of the Bolivarian islands,
23:35for the peoples of our Americas,
23:38and the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean,
23:41all the support provided,
23:44we are receiving effective diplomatic support,
23:50moral support, spiritual support,
23:53active solidarity,
23:56the voice that raises in the world to alert
24:00this aggression against Venezuela,
24:04Venezuela is at peace,
24:07consolidating its paths,
24:10consolidating the constitution,
24:13all the rights,
24:16all the constitutional rights guaranteed
24:19for our people,
24:22yesterday we have here
24:25over a hundred
24:28social, intellectual, political leaders
24:31of the whole world,
24:34they have come from Africa, Asia,
24:37the United States of America,
24:40Latin America, the Caribbean,
24:43Europe, here they are,
24:46and there are international observers
24:49here in Venezuela because
24:52yesterday there were
24:55elections in Venezuela,
24:58a consultation election,
25:01and nobody hears about that because
25:04they make us invisible in media outlets,
25:07these media outlets
25:10only get news
25:13justifying hate against Venezuela,
25:16that's the truth,
25:19but Venezuela lived yesterday
25:22a beautiful party because
25:25there was a second great consultation
25:28with communal councils
25:31for the people to vote
25:34for their prioritizing
25:37projects there
25:40in the over 400,000
25:43communal circuits,
25:46I was telling the partners here
25:49present that precisely
25:52this is what we can call
25:55the cause,
25:58how can I call it
26:01when there is a war?
26:04Belize cause
26:07in the international
26:10law,
26:13well I would say this is the
26:16Belize case,
26:19precisely
26:22of the imperialist
26:25aggression
26:28by the oligarchies
26:31and the neofascist far right
26:34against Venezuela,
26:37here in Venezuela it's been consolidating
26:40the path of commander Hugo Chavez
26:43to build a new democracy,
26:46a popular democracy,
26:49a truthful democracy,
26:52there is a new
26:55formula emerged
26:58at the heat of the Bolivarian
27:01Chavista doctrines
27:04because of our experiences
27:07and grassroots
27:10as master Simon Rodriguez said
27:13we are not copy of everyone
27:16as
27:19Mariategui said
27:22our socialism must not
27:25be a copy of anyone
27:28of any member of any country
27:31it must be a heroic creation
27:34and it is a heroic creation of a people that have
27:37a struggle that wants peace and democracy
27:40a tremendous example of new democracy
27:43of direct democracy, of popular democracy
27:46of radical democracy, of socialist democracy
27:49but they cover it
27:52they make it silent
27:55they make it invisible
27:58but we said here from Venezuela
28:01that it doesn't matter how many times
28:04we will be attacked
28:07how many threats are making us invisible
28:10but what matters is the Venezuelan people
28:13exist and it is in combat
28:16and it is on victory
28:19Venezuela is on victory
28:22siblings of Albatizipi
28:25we are going to proceed now
28:28documents are being
28:31circulating
28:34as it is usually in these summits
28:37to
28:40endorse
28:43common positions of our