Updates of the National Congress of the Historic Bolivarian Bloc

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00:00In Caracas, Venezuela, begins the Congress of the Historic Bolivarian Bloc, an exercise

00:20of participative democracy led by Nicolás Maduro's government.

00:24The Congress comes after more than 90,000 assemblies in the communes and other people's

00:29power exercise spaces.

00:306,000 representatives of all the social forces and collective movements and political parties

00:36of the Bolivarian Revolution will attend this strategic meeting.

00:40Last Monday, during the preparation process of the Congress, the Venezuelan head of state,

00:44Nicolás Maduro, as the first objective of discussions, mentioned the plan of the Seven

00:50Transformations, a government program with seven lines of work for 2025-2030, based on

00:56the strategic thinking of Commander Hugo Chávez.

01:04And to go deep into all the details and relevance of this grand Congress of the Historic Bolivarian

01:09Bloc, we contact our correspondent, Gladys Quesada.

01:12Hi, Gladys.

01:13Hi, Ale.

01:14Yes, precisely, we are here in La Carlota, which is serving as the main venue for this

01:23gathering of the Patriotic Pole and the Bloc, which is these five generations and the seven

01:31forces.

01:32Those are numbers that, when you hear them, you think, well, I don't understand them.

01:36OK, but I'm going to explain.

01:38The five generations are those who are conforming the ideological basis and, you know, the active

01:45generations of the revolution, that's to say, the foundations of the Bolivarian Revolution

01:50back in the independence struggles, also the Bolivar ideals.

01:55And today, nowadays, those are considered like the cornerstone of the Bolivarian Revolution

02:00alongside Hugo Chávez's legacy and the work of Nicolás Maduro Moros, alongside younger

02:08generations, those who are 18 years old, 15 years old, who are named like the genial generation,

02:16which is meaning the cool generation, the great generation.

02:19And they are the, you know, the inheritance of what is doing the government today and

02:25what is being done in, you know, in favor of the future of Venezuela.

02:30Also, the seven forces, those are the main social sectors that conform the revolution.

02:37And I have to say, those are the indigenous, the native peoples, also the working class,

02:43you know, the environmentalists, the non-heteronormative communities.

02:49And those are the social bonds, the social organizations that conform this.

02:56So if you get together the generations with the social sectors and the intersectional

03:02will of construct a new future for Venezuela and a socialist path for Venezuela, that's

03:09the result or the outcome of that is what you can see today, this grand congress that

03:15is gathering all the forces and all the generations to construct together a new future and to

03:21make a new Venezuela.

03:23So that's the premise of this congress.

03:26Today was the first day of discussions and the 6,000 delegates were gathered in seven

03:33working tables and those tables are corresponding with the seven transformations that the president

03:40Nicolás Maduro Moros was defining in his government plan, as you were saying, when

03:47he was back on July 28th just a presidential candidate and now he's the elect chief of

03:54state here in Venezuela.

03:56As you know, this is one of the many ways that he has to implement his agenda for 2030

04:03and this is one of the many ways to enhance the popular will and also the socialism and

04:09the construction of the new Venezuela.

04:12Precisely, Ricardo Menendez, the authority, as you mentioned, leading the seven transformations

04:17plan was one of the main speakers of this first day of debates.

04:21What were the main highlights of his speech and how is the country progressing in terms

04:25of economy, public services and national sovereignty, as you mentioned?

04:31Okay, Ale, we cannot speak about Ricardo Menendez's remarks without speaking or without addressing

04:38the remarks of Delcy Rodríguez, which is the vice president of the country, and Jorge

04:44Rodríguez, the president of the National Assembly.

04:46Both of them are given the historical and social context of this congress and they were

04:53also highlighting some concepts that, for me, were so interesting, like historical dignity.

05:00They were speaking about being the inheritance and living a legacy at the same time and how

05:06this congress and the construction of socialism in Venezuela is a way to give an end to capitalism

05:13and to give an end to old structures in the world, old social ways and birth, you know,

05:20give a way for the new ways, for the new forms, for the new world, the multipolar world, okay?

05:26So those were the remarks by Delcy Rodríguez and also Jorge Rodríguez.

05:32Those are, you know, main authorities here in Venezuela and main authorities in the construction

05:37of the socialist project.

05:39But also, as you were referring, Ricardo Menendez, which is one of the paramount figures of this

05:44congress, he was explaining the need for, you know, do proper planning, you know, accurate

05:52location of the resources of the revolution, not to do, you know, vain expenditures, not

05:58to do shallow expenses, but to allocate the resources where people are needing those resources.

06:06He was also directing one of the working tables, and that's the table number five, regarding

06:12the political changes.

06:13He was saying something so interesting, that is, that the economy has to go hand in hand

06:20with politics.

06:21You cannot speak about socialism in politics without changing the roots, the core, the

06:27basis of the economy and to change the model towards socialism.

06:31And those are the means of production, the ways of reproduce the well-being and the welfare

06:39of the people.

06:40I want to explain something also that he was saying, and he was stating that it is not

06:46possible to construct a revolution with corruption inside.

06:50It is not possible to construct a revolution with bureaucracy inside.

06:55So one of the main topics of his working table today and tomorrow, of course, will be how

07:01to alleviate the ways for people to communicate with the leaders, how to alleviate the economy

07:07in order to construct new models for making people more productive in terms of economy,

07:14and how to enhance these means in the hands of the people, you know, and how to give way

07:21for the economy to be one with the policies of the state and how the model is going to

07:28respond, is going to correspond with the socialist goal, the socialist future that Venezuela

07:34is envisioning.

07:37Thank you, Gladys, for all the key information.

07:39We will be in contact with you.

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