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00:00Oil production was growing and the price of oil also was rising and therefore imports
00:13as well were growing.
00:15Sometimes also it was upped 52 million per year and exceeding 56 million by year.
00:28The oil inputs that come from the price of oil and we were importing more than that.
00:37Then we were adding inputs as imports and we were saying our economy was growing but
00:45the economy that produced food, goods, services, the non-oil economy was stuck and forgotten
00:58but Chavez started to create the development of a new economic model that we're seeing
01:03now and we got to it getting through several difficulties and facing harassment, threats
01:16and sanctions but we saw the end of the tunnel and truly what is happening in Venezuela is
01:26growing, a process of growing economy which is the motor of this economy.
01:36In order to grow in this industry, we need money and investments as in 2024 happened.
01:44Talking about growing and the production topic of the pharmaceutical industry, Arrueno-Puñol
01:52states this 2024 is estimated to finish with 300 million of medicines.
02:01This is very interesting regarding health sector and medicines for Venezuelans but there's
02:07something very interesting.
02:09This figure 70% are national production medicines and 30% of imported medicines.
02:19We have faced several scenarios and we remember what happened in the pandemic when the sanctions
02:26and the blockade didn't allow the entrance of medicine and vaccines and now this scenario
02:33is better in the pharmaceutical industry for Venezuelans and this year will finish like
02:39this.
02:40What would you say for industry and Venezuelans in this situation that the government is granting?
02:45The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important motors when we develop the
02:52growing motors and it reacted very well.
02:56Venezuela achieved developing advanced technology, we might say, between the years 2006 to 2014.
03:08There was a lot of investments and important funds and the pharmaceutical industry of Venezuela
03:19positioned in a place with great capacity for production of several medicines but this
03:26ended when the sanctions and economic war arrived and we all remember the painful shortage
03:35that there was in the pharmaceutical system of Venezuela.
03:40I remember it very well because I suffered a lot with this and mainly when the pandemic
03:47arrived and the government of the United States strengthened this personal that all the pharmaceutical
04:03industries of the world to avoid them to sell medicines or matters to Venezuela and specifically
04:14any kind of medical inputs or medicines to address the pandemic that was a horrible harassment.
04:25We faced it luckily with the support of important businessmen and women here and of the world.
04:32At that time, Alessandro was kidnapped.
04:36Alex was one of the businessmen that helped the most country to the arrival of the medicines.
04:48I always remember Remdesivir which was the first antiviral in the world with effective
04:56power against coronavirus.
05:00And I found out by an international article that such thing existed because we were investigating
05:08every day last innovations in technology to address coronavirus.
05:14I said what is going on with this and we started to do some research.
05:20And they didn't sell us Remdesivir.
05:23They didn't sell this to Venezuela.
05:25Immediately, we carried out several actions and bought Remdesivir in big cargos in India.
05:36We can say actually where it was.
05:40And we triangled this in six countries.
05:43We bought it for another country.
05:45We triangled it and Remdesivir arrived in Venezuela.
05:49And I think we are the first country in Latin America that had Remdesivir.
05:54I always remember that Remdesivir arrived exactly the day in which Diosdado was entering
06:02in a critical stage of his treatment.
06:06He had been in a hospital for 10 days and the news were not good.
06:15And we were facing distress in our country.
06:20And Remdesivir arrived not only to save the life of Diosdado but to save the life of tens
06:28of hundreds and thousands of Venezuelans.
06:32That's just an example of the battle we have fought.
06:37But they also have pursued the medical components to carry out dialysis and medicines to address
06:48those who suffer from diabetes and the medicines for chronic diseases.
06:56And we have granted, always with the participation of the private companies of Venezuela and
07:02of all over the world, we have granted the active principles and inputs on medicines.
07:11It's great news that the pharmaceutical industry of Venezuela is at the moment supplying 70%
07:22of the medicine of the national market.
07:24It's great news.
07:25And it's being complemented with the 30% that we import.
07:29So luckily, you can go out to any town or city of the country and you will see that
07:38we have advanced from a catastrophic situation due to the sanctions from a shortage of 70%
07:48to a full supply.
07:52Not only the existence of medicines, but as you say, the access, there are ways to distribute
07:56medicines so that people can have according to their capacity.
08:01We keep reviewing the news to go back to the portal Bank and Business talks about banker
08:09credit that reads that in dollars it augmented 99.91% and reached $2.27 million in August.
08:22Also reads that Venezuela's bank leads the market with a participation of 80% and in
08:29another line rate that is augmented when compared with August, but also grew 104% regarding
08:41the 12 last months.
08:43That is correct.
08:47Something very important is that in this catastrophic era of the sanctions, the banking system of
08:56Venezuela, whether public or private, had the capacity to face and overcome these difficulties
09:05with strength.
09:08It was proven that the Venezuelan system had a great capacity of adaptability to any kind
09:14of situation.
09:15And today we might say that there has been strengthened the credit capacity.
09:22These are very powerful indicators because to develop the economy it's needed, money
09:28is needed, and funds also, several components, but money is essential.
09:34We have several businessmen here.
09:36It's impossible to think in development of a company, think of its growth and expansion
09:46if you don't analyze essential aspects, which is financial resources.
09:54We are right now in a situation where we are improving and advancing and still the capacity
10:01to democratize credit, the capacity to extend the possibilities of financing are lost.
10:16This is barely in the finances of Venezuela, in the credit system, the first good news
10:23of an expansion of the credit capacity to support the growth of the economy in the upcoming years.
10:33The FMI was talking about the growing GDP of Venezuela in 2024, surpassing or even other
10:42countries of Latin America.
10:51I think that the IMS is over, at least for the Global South countries.
10:59I don't know if for them in the North region, in this moment I wouldn't state something
11:07about it, but the formulas used by the IMF and World Banking are predatory for the socio-economic
11:22life of the peoples.
11:25We need to, we can analyze Argentina, which was three times victim of the IMS when it
11:32started to recover and when did it start to go back to the path of Perón, when Néstor
11:41Kirchner broke and sealed the economy of Argentina with the IMS.
11:51Before Carlos Menem delivered the great Republic of Argentina and all of its economic
12:00capacity and turned it into a colony of the IMF, it was Néstor Kirchner, the one who
12:10gave it freedom with the tradition of Peronism and nationalism and independentism of our
12:19nation, Argentina.
12:20And when Macri arrives, what does he do?
12:23He delivers mercenaries of the IMF to Argentina and causes a crisis.
12:31And what is Millet doing now?
12:33He's destroying the economic apparatus and technological apparatus of Argentina, turning
12:40it into an economic, financial and technological colony and also a social colony.
12:50And who's behind all this?
12:51The IMF. Those who want development and peace for their countries and those who want to
13:01walk the path of the 21st century to build peaceful and strong societies with powerful
13:10economies needs to break ties with the IMF.
13:14It is a shadow, an evil shadow for the peoples, without a doubt.
13:22Well, President, we keep reviewing and let's go to the political area.
13:27We have the website of the Venezuelan Agency of News.
13:32They are talking about in this headline about Jorge Rodriguez, who reveals an original of
13:38the letter signed by Edmundo González where he complies the sentence of the Supreme Court
13:44of Justice. Several things have happened in these days.
13:47Publications in the international media are trying to change the situation.
13:56They have said that they don't have details or it's not the time to reveal details and to
14:03reveal the reasons why Edmundo left the country.
14:06President, I say that when these proofs were presented, it has been respectful of the
14:16agreements achieved.
14:18But the opposition was talking about the supposed coercion under Edmundo González signed
14:27this letter that several denied that existed.
14:32But Jorge Rodriguez, President of the National Assembly, presented to the world's media in an
14:39original format that damn letter handwritten by Edmundo González.
14:51But since this topic is so interesting, I'm not going to talk about it.
14:56Luckily, in our program of today's audience, we had Dr.
15:04Jorge Rodriguez Gomez.
15:06And I invite you here.
15:13Here he is coming.
15:17How are you? Welcome.
15:21Precisely, Jorge.
15:26A lot has been done this week and has been said about this letter and the denial of the
15:37world's media about it.
15:41Beyond these documents that, of course, we're going to show, what has been proved are two
15:49things of this process that started on July 29 until now.
15:57First of all, a compulsion to lie on the side of this person, to lie with a coward attitude
16:15that one might say, how is it possible that this person changes his mind so dramatically?
16:24These are not only two documents.
16:27So far, we have among documents and publications like eight or nine declarations that are
16:40contradictory. And someone with this disposition to lie, it's unprecedented.
16:53But in this case, I think González Urrutia has exceeded these previous politicians.
17:02But the worst one was when Maria Coina Machado and his partners summoned people to attack
17:11public transportation, people who were just being chavis.
17:16Or where was González Urrutia at that time?
17:22He was hidden in the embassy of the Netherlands from the same day of the elections.
17:28There, all of the story ends two stories.
17:34He was not the hero exposed by the international media because he was hidden in the embassy
17:42while 27 Venezuelans were being murdered.
17:46And also, he was not being coerced because he was just hidden.
17:53And we need to wonder why the ambassador of the Netherlands interferes in politics of
18:04Venezuela. After he said that you need to move to the embassy to travel to Spain, he
18:12told him the ambassador of the Netherlands said coerce to and is certified in a letter
18:21sent by the ambassador of the Netherlands to its parliament.
18:26Sorry, it is the minister of foreign affairs, the one who said all this.
18:31He sends a letter to the parliament.
18:34Twenty four hours after he left the country, Mr.
18:47González Urrutia, on Sunday, the 8th, the public opinion was distressed because they
18:59found out by the message of Instagram of the vice president that he, Mr.
19:05González Urrutia, had left the country.
19:08And then another news arise, which was published in any of the websites of the world,
19:19that there was a letter where the minister of foreign affairs of the Netherlands was
19:25saying that this person was from July the 29th in the embassy and didn't leave the
19:33embassy once.
19:35And the ambassador of them insisted that he didn't leave the country.
19:41And he opened the door and rang a bell in the house next door.
19:48And what was the house next door?
19:51The house of the ambassador of Spain.
19:54Both embassies are neighbors.
20:02Someday we will reveal his story about it.
20:04I don't know if we will do it.
20:07This reveals something very interesting and important.
20:14It reveals the characteristics and the moral of a leader, the ethics, the values.
20:24You can demonstrate how is a leader when he faces difficult situations and threats, his
20:33behavior, if he's scared, if he runs away, if he hides.
20:38And what Jorge is saying is true.
20:40Not only the fact that he was hitting on the 29th the early morning, but he didn't leave the
20:48embassy ever because he was not participating in the manifestations summoned by La Sayona.
20:58He was not in Las Mercedes.
20:59He was not in the mall leader in Parque Cristal.
21:02He never left the embassy.
21:04We only knew of him because he appeared with a blue tie, with a flag of Venezuela behind, in
21:12videos published in social media where he was saying that he was hidden.
21:19He abandoned his people because he was in an embassy.
21:24He sent the little commandos to attack and kill.
21:28And then where summons were made to defend him as a leader, he was just hidden in the
21:40embassy of the Netherlands.
21:42Sorry for the interruption.
21:44Yeah, you are right, Mr.
21:44President, because also he might say that he was coerced, etc.
21:53But what coercion did he face on July the 29th, 30, and why did he hide in the embassy of the
22:00Netherlands? What was the reason for it?
22:03Who was he hiding from?
22:06Who was coercing him?
22:08We know who was putting pressure on him through the phone, who scrammed at him on
22:17September the 6th and told him, don't be a coward.
22:26We have some records that certifies it.
22:31That proved that the pressure was not coming from the Bolivarian government.
22:35But also when the prosecutor's office summoned him to accomplish a sentence, he
22:48threw his lawyers, who is another liar in the history of the law of Venezuela.
22:55He declared four times and has lied five.
22:59He sends a letter to the prosecutor's office where he recognizes the public powers, the
23:07Supreme Court of Justice and the Venezuelan state and the head of the Venezuelan state,
23:13which is President Maduro.
23:15Before they established contacts with us on September the 3rd and on September the 34th,
23:23the lawyer that I don't know, whose last name is Ardo, declared to a question of a
23:32journalist of the CNA in Spanish that Edmundo Gonzalez will never ask for political
23:42asylum and will never leave the country.
23:46And on September the 4th, I got a call from someone who Edmundo Gonzalez sent saying
23:54that he was in the embassy of Spain and he asked for political asylum and he wanted to
24:00leave Venezuela and finish his political career.
24:06That was the message that I got personally.
24:08And after those days, we processed that information.
24:13Then we established contacts on both sides, first through an interlocutor established
24:20by González Urrutia.
24:22He's such a coward that now several people are being attacked by his fault and he doesn't
24:32defend those people that didn't do anything else but defending him and accomplish what
24:38he ordered. The conversations about his desire to leave the country started and, of
24:46course, the government of Venezuela directly with the Spanish government through the
24:51Ministries of Foreign Affairs established the technical elements as the safe contact
24:58to authorize his departure of the country.
25:01Then he prepared a document.
25:05This is the original that after he said was made under coercion, where he really this
25:14document has been identified as a capitulation, a surrender demonstration.
25:24And it is because in this document, he acknowledges the president of the Venezuelan
25:32state, the president of the National Assembly and the Attorney General of the
25:38Republic. But the most important fact is that he said, I don't agree with the sentence of
25:44the Supreme Court, but I comply it.
25:47When you comply a sentence and you go there and realize that what he is complying was
25:56the results announced by the electoral, by the CNE.
26:03So what he is acknowledging is the results of the election.
26:07What happens with this document?
26:08Another element I want to talk about is the immense fight that is happening in the
26:19extreme wing of Venezuela.
26:22This letter appears in websites of the right wing of Venezuela on Monday, the 9th,
26:30September 9th in web portals.
26:33This appeared that this letter existed and this person sent Jose Vicente Aro and he
26:40stated that Mr.
26:44Gonzalo Zerrutia didn't sign any letter at all, that this is fake.
26:50The lawyer of him said this in the morning.
26:54And I said to this interlocutor, if Gonzalo Zerrutia doesn't deny Aro's declaration, I
27:02will show the letter. He didn't do it.
27:03So we showed the letter signed here.
27:08I asked him to sign to avoid modification of the text.
27:14And here it is. And here is when he, Gonzalo Zerrutia, said that this was made under
27:25coercion involving the government of Spain in such a huge trouble because this was made
27:32under coercion.
27:33And the only time where the vice president saw Mr.
27:38Gonzalo Zerrutia was in the residence of the ambassador, Gonzalo Zerrutia.
27:43How is the issue of the whiskey?
27:45We held several reunions and calls to talk.
27:52And the tone was always cordial and there was a certain party ambience there.
28:06Then the ambassador offered us whiskey and chocolate.
28:13And all this is recorded in this conversation.
28:26There's a phrase said by Mr.
28:28Gonzalo Zerrutia, because we said peacefully and the interlocutor said, I'm a little bit
28:35tired. We can continue with the conversations tomorrow.
28:38And Mr. Gonzalo Zerrutia said, no, I want that solved right now.
28:43Because I want to go to Spain right now.
28:46We were the ones coerced by him because he was desperate to leave the country.
28:51And I think one of the reasons why he was desperate to leave the country is that he
28:58didn't tell Maria Corina Machado that he was leaving.
29:01And he recognizes this after in an interview.
29:05These are two characteristics because these days of gossip, mistress fascist Sayona was
29:18live one day with one of these influencers out there.
29:24She was saying that she was coerced, that he was coerced and all of this conspiracy
29:32theory of coercion.
29:35It is not coercion, but cowardly.
29:40Because I might say to Mr.
29:41Gonzalo Zerrutia, you there in Madrid, who is the most coerced about this?
29:48You drinking whiskey, signing a surrender letter or Nicolás Maduro facing threats,
29:57sanctions and harassment.
30:01Have you seen me frightened?
30:05Afraid, scared, thinking in going backwards and abandon the peoples of Venezuela.
30:12Have you seen me doing that?
30:14So don't be a coward and recognize your lack of morals and your cowardly.
30:22It was not coercion, but cowardly.
30:26And that same day for her to finish with this comment.
30:30And in the same minute when Mrs.
30:34Fascist was saying that it was coercion, he published a letter in his ex account saying
30:43I was not coerced in the embassy of Madrid.
30:50Due to a great situation, the generation of a great, great situation and the political
30:57situation of Spain, the extreme right is always
31:06related to the fascist extreme right.
31:11He has always been a racist and misogynist and that is public public matter.
31:20But he also believed that he was traveling on Saturday and the negotiations would
31:27were not finished yet between the government of Spain and the government of
31:31Venezuela to accomplish with the asylum request of Mr.
31:35Grucha. But on Saturday, believing that he was leaving, he calls Maria Córdova shallow
31:41and is when she finds out that he was the part that he's the party of the country and
31:50she is scram at him and he said the decision is made and hangs up the phone.
31:58That's why he was in such a hurry that night because I and I we established conversation
32:04with him and needs when he said we need to solve this today.
32:08In fact, when he arrived to arrived in the house of the vice president's of the
32:14ambassador. Because we cannot go there and ring the bell to enter the embassy.
32:24Evidently, he asked for our presence there.
32:29If we are there is because we were asked to be there and we entered and he was wearing a
32:36comfortable shirt and shoes.
32:38He said, I am wearing this because I expected to travel today.
32:44The fact is facing he was thinking of calling her from the stairs of the plane.
32:59Then another thing happened and is this person, Aro, saying that this document was signed
33:07under pressure and that he asked for the country and the political prisoners.
33:17That is entirely false.
33:21The only request made for Mr.
33:24González Urrutia referred to personal belongings, his apartment, his car.
33:36And he asked me to sign a letter addressed to him.
33:41This is a second document that it is not a public interest yet, but we're not going to
33:48publish it today.
33:57As they always have done it, look at the sign.
34:02The other signature.
34:06This is like a soap opera.
34:11Also is part of what the government of Venezuela has always done, accomplishing
34:15grantees. The opposition has never done.
34:19These are grantees established in the constitution of our republic.
34:23And then he, in the interview to Reuter, said, yes, I asked for my belongings and for my
34:33children. That is what he said in the Reuter interview.
34:37And now we're in a case that relates to Dr.
34:50Iecki. He is Dr.
34:52Iecki when he's pressured, but the pressures of the state are too big and the extreme
34:59right of Venezuela, of Spain and Venezuela start to tell him that he needs to handle a
35:05stronger position and etc.
35:08Then it is debated as communicating X, where he says in a very similar tone of the one
35:19of the surrender letter.
35:21And then two hours after he publishes a post stating several steps, then he was in
35:30a dinner violating all of the agreements of the asylum request.
35:37He was in the house of Miguel Enrique Otero in the mansion of Miguel Enrique Otero.
35:44The Milla de Oro, Golden Mile of Spain neighborhood where Leopoldo Lopez and all of
35:54the great multimillionaires live in the house of Miguel Enrique Otero was the father of
36:02Leopoldo Lopez, businessman of Venezuela, of Spain and politicians of the Vox party.
36:16And the reason, the main reason about meeting there was demanding for money to continue
36:28with his objective of overthrowing the government of Venezuela.
36:34And he said, I need independence from Margarita Machado because as long as I depend on her
36:41resources, I also will depend on her screams.
36:45You said it in that meeting and he started to analyze the possibility to request $10
36:52million that are going to be used for his retirement in the Mile of Gold neighborhood.
37:02It's just a matter of weeks for we to see him with that money that he asked for those
37:08businessmen living in the neighborhood, living a life of wealth and power.
37:17In conclusion, we are here in the presence of a coward person as I've never seen before in
37:24the history of Venezuela because we have had thieves and criminals as politicians but
37:31coward too little because if there's something that Venezuelans don't tolerate, it's cowardly.
37:39And second, the fights where Julio Borges and the extreme right are involved to see how
37:48they destroy the sector that is in agreement with the capitulation of Gonzalo Saludia.
37:58The center of the sector is entirely dismantled.
38:06It is a fight to defend Capriles defends Gonzales.
38:12The interlocutor is a little Gonzales because he has pointed it out in several posts and
38:20the state of Julio Borges is
38:28to expel Capriles and to deliver all that to Mayor Corina Machado.
38:35Then we only have this left to be revealed.
38:46Look, here we have
38:50two copies are going to be printed, the signature of President Jorge Rodríguez and the signature of Mr. Gonzales Urrutia.
39:06But this will be revealed in the next chapter and I give you back to your letter, Mr. Rodríguez.
39:13This is a worthy document.
39:17Thank you very much for your presence, Mr. Jorge Rodríguez.
39:20Well, President, we're going to review our last news, very interesting for everybody.
39:31And I believe that Gonzales Urrutia has demonstrated that they were taking care, they were hiding
39:43from their own partners of the opposition.
39:47You can't expect anything from fascism, even lies and more.
39:56And he knows this because he was there his whole life.
39:59Well, President, we are going to review our last publication of Digital Zone with a journalist,
40:08El Universal.
40:12He has said that this has been a public agenda in this new moment of the geopolitical mark of
40:21Venezuela and the world.
40:24Getting close to Latin American peoples is important.
40:30This has been an encounter very relevant here.
40:34They are carrying out a productive project that goes according to the 21st century.
40:44And it's being created with marvelous strength and has an experience of over 40 years
40:53agricultural experience with a model that preserves soil and educates farmers.
41:01We have decided to boost a project that is going to be named Project Patria Grande del Sur.
41:13And we have here the Sintierra movement, the leader of this movement, Pedro, welcome.
41:21Thank you to the people here present.
41:38This belongs to the Brazilian people and also to the Venezuelan people.
41:46We have carried out several meetings these days with the Minister of Agriculture,
41:57President of Agropatria.
42:00And we have planned several topics that are going to be part of this great project.
42:06You know, all of the people present here know that our commitment is to work for
42:15food sovereignty of the peoples.
42:17The nations need to produce what they consume.
42:22And second, we need to preserve nature because otherwise we are at risk, as Commander Fidel
42:30Castro said in the meeting of El Rio in 1992, more than 90 years ago.
42:39And our effort is to show that we are coming here to learn and share and work together.
42:51So that is why it's important to us to involve in all of this process Venezuelan farmers
42:57and their communes, which is the way they organize.
43:02And we plan then some work
43:08sources.
43:09The main one in the Bolivar State where we're going to develop a project that we call
43:17agricultural and stock production related in the same area that we're going to share
43:26territory of almost 10,000 hectares where we're going to plant local trees to preserve nature
43:35and also to produce food like cacao, banana, and also having food as manioc and corn and animals.
43:50From this project, we can take advantage of animals such as
44:06buffaloes and producing cheese and milk, et cetera.
44:15And to develop this project, we are committed to bring technical personnel
44:22and members of the NSC and UNHEL here with us,
44:32that's committed to organize the Venezuelan farmers that live there or nearby to those
44:39states that are in the Bolivar State.
44:44But also, I would like to share with you and all the people here
44:48that in that plan of food sovereignty, we're talking already in another production issues.
45:00Second one would be production of seeds
45:03because unfortunately, Venezuela is still importing seeds.
45:11So then we have signed an agreement where Delta Rodriguez,
45:15Ms. Vice President, was involved.
45:17And next week, we're going to bring 30 tons of beans to start the production
45:28as we have signed with Agropatria an informal protocol to build with Chinese technology
45:39two factories, one of biofertilizers here in Caracas,
45:47to take advantage of the organic matter we have, and another one there in Carabobo
45:52where the market of vegetables and fruits is.
46:00We want to use their waste to use it as a pass
46:15and so that they can augment the production that they have in their fisheries.
46:22And the third element is to transform the region of El Valle from here to Carabobo,
46:28which is a very rich region and close near to Caracas,
46:35to produce vegetables and beans that are typical of Venezuela.
46:42So we're going to fill all of that area with greenhouses.
46:54And the fourth one is protein of animal origin,
47:01try to produce protein for the Venezuelan people.
47:06And we want to boost along with the Venezuelan farmer.
47:10First, chicken for the hens for organic eggs.
47:18First, we might have 200 hens and produce 200 eggs daily,
47:26which is more healthy than beef.
47:29And also any animal protein, the issue of cheese that we have talked about.
47:36I just found out that I'm an ignorant of Venezuela
47:42because you have three million buffaloes.
47:45This is the Latin American country that has the most buffaloes.
47:51Yes, it is.
47:53Let's go deeper in this and create agricultural industries to use the milk.
47:59Even Mr. Pedro Malavé, president of Agropatria,
48:03put me in charge of a task to discover maybe Vietnamese
48:20might help us because they have a lot of buffaloes.
48:29We need to use milking devices because those machines that currently are used there
48:37are from the Italian and the European.
48:43And so this person was committed to,
48:46if the Vietnamese don't have those milking devices,
48:52we're going to create a factory in Venezuela adapted to buffaloes.
48:59And finally, president,
49:06the last issue that I enjoyed a lot is the sugar cane.
49:11Do you like sugar cane?
49:13There are two countries in the world that produce sugar cane with farmers,
49:18India and Venezuela.
49:20In Brazil, this is a shame.
49:22We have sugar cane crops with more than 50,000 hectares,
49:31which were burned due to wildfires.
49:37330,000 hectares of sugar cane and that generated a shortage of sugar.
49:46Why?
49:47Because all of the agribusiness, instead of producing sugar,
49:54are producing ethanol as a fuel.
50:03They are going to hell.
50:06Here in Venezuela, you are not only sitting in a barrel of oil,
50:21but also in a barrel of sugar.
50:24And if we develop this issue,
50:28we can transform Venezuela into a leader in exporting sugar
50:34for other Latin American countries that need it.
50:37I thank you for the opportunity and we will carry out all of the efforts
50:42to, in our way, contribute to achieving those advances.
50:48And this productive union is also a spiritual union
50:53because it's a union to create the dreams of several generations.
51:00And it's an unbreakable union.
51:03Nobody will ever destroy the political-spiritual union
51:08between the Brazilian and Venezuelan people
51:11that we are sealing now with the project Patria Grande.
51:18Thank you very much.
51:19Let's take a picture.
51:23Come here.
51:29Come here.
51:35Venezuela has people that love it in the world
51:38and these marvelous experiences are experiences that have been proved
51:44for 40 years in the fields of Brazil.
51:47And we're going to multiply them now in South America, in Venezuela.
51:52Nobody and nothing will destroy the deep union of Brazil and Venezuela.
52:02And we're going to carry out the great project Patria Grande of the South.
52:06Congratulations.
52:07And now let's go to Coma Little Mas.
52:17We are live to Venezuela where President Nicolás Maduro
52:20offers statements during the podcast Coma Little Mas.
52:23In his remarks, the president highlighted that despite US sanctions,
52:27Venezuela produces 100% of the food consumed by the Venezuelan people,
52:32an achievement possible thanks to the will of the leaders
52:35and also the people to move the country forward in order to be sufficient.
52:40During his intervention, the Bolivarian leader informed
52:42that the national oil production is also on the rise this 2024,
52:46which reduces in an economic growth for the country
52:50despite the heavy impact of US sanctions on the sector
52:53and the persistent harassment of the successive US administrations.
52:57For his part, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,
53:01referred to the attitude of far-right wing former candidate Edmundo González,
53:05who left Venezuela cowardly after being one of those who called for violence
53:10and asked for more sanctions to be applied against the country.
53:14But in this context, Venezuela is not alone, keeps growing, keeps moving forward.
53:19This is all for the moment, stay tuned with From the South.