*The National Congress of the Historic Bolivarian Bloc to discuss, define and approve the Venezuela of the future
*Congress aims at collective design of govt. action plan
*Congress seeks to reflect on the historical role of the Bolivarian Revolution
*Congress aims at collective design of govt. action plan
*Congress seeks to reflect on the historical role of the Bolivarian Revolution
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00:00It's the second day of the Congress of the Bolivarian Historical Bloc in Venezuela and
00:20our correspondent Belén de los Santos is there with the details we must know about
00:24the event.
00:25Hello Belén.
00:26Hello Ana, exactly as you were saying, as we have been saying throughout the day, the
00:33Grand Congress of the Historical Bolivarian Bloc is underway and one of its key slogans
00:40today and these days is to organize, convince, to transform and that is one of the key ideas
00:50to understand this participatory instance that this Congress is because this is really
00:56a tool of organization.
00:59Why do we say this?
01:00We've been explaining what this Congress is about and let's recall that different sectors
01:07of society, both from the different, for example, productive sectors, social sectors, political
01:14sectors of society, have been carrying out assemblies throughout the territory since
01:19September in its objective of coming together and thinking about key strategies for the
01:25country.
01:26This has been underway during the past weeks and today and yesterday and until tomorrow
01:32this Congress is the place where all of these different sectors are coming together to bring
01:38their own proposals and debate on key strategic ideas for the upcoming years for the country.
01:45So we're saying this is an instance of organization, so the society, the Venezuelan society has
01:52had to come together and think about what they want to do about the economy, their social
01:59improvement, different strategics that they are facing nowadays and that also the world
02:05is really facing on this new years and the challenges that are posed on the Venezuelan
02:13society and the Latin American society as a whole.
02:17So we were talking about an organization tool and this is also a motivational tool.
02:23So the different militants from different sectors, as we were saying, are coming together
02:29and this is also an opportunity to exchange visions, to exchange point of view, to also
02:35really see how the different aspects of the Venezuelan society are thinking and analyzing
02:42topics as key as the economy, the sovereignty, the key aspects of production, for example,
02:51education.
02:52Everything is being analyzed and of course the different sectors have been bringing their
02:58own proposals.
03:00So we have participants from the indigenous communities, we have participants from the
03:05communes, both urban and rural, we have participants from the productive sectors.
03:12We were speaking just earlier today and we will have her declarations then during the
03:18day from one of the representatives of the women's transport unions.
03:24So all the different sectors that make up this process, this revolutionary process,
03:30are coming together and bringing their own ideas on how do they view the challenges ahead
03:36and what do they think is necessary to overcome them.
03:40So for example, in some of the working tables, let's recall that today is the key day in
03:47this process of the Congress because today is the working space day.
03:52So all these representatives are gathered together and they've been separated according
03:57to different topics.
03:59These topics align with the seven transformations that the project of President Nicolás Maduro
04:06has been carrying out.
04:07This means seven strategic areas in which the revolutionary process needs to continue
04:14working and wants to continue working in the upcoming years and specifically in the upcoming
04:20presidential mandate.
04:22So these are areas that have to do with the economy, with sovereignty, with human development.
04:28And these are the areas in which the militants have been divided into, they're carrying out
04:33their assemblies as we speak right now.
04:36And for example, one of the assemblies was debating and continues to debate things that
04:43have to do with how to strengthen communal power in the territories, how to bring to
04:48the territories and then from the territories propose their ideas, not just today in the
04:54Congress, but how to make this a permanent way of political construction.
05:00That is the challenge that the Bolivarian revolution here in Venezuela is posing upon
05:06itself.
05:07And that is what the citizens are picking up and trying to enforce today and really
05:13mapping out a road plan for the coming years.
05:16So that was one of the slogans.
05:18So we're talking about motivating and convincing to transform the idea of coming together.
05:24And that will be the way in which the Venezuelan society in a participatory way is designing
05:31its plan for the coming years to really transform all these aspects.
05:36And one of the things, and with this we end for right now, but we'll be coming back in
05:41the upcoming news brief, one of the main ideas that keeps coming back has to do with
05:46this revolution in process.
05:49And that revolution in process needs from the participation of the people who are bringing
05:54their ideas, who are coming together, who are continuing to every day think how better
06:01ways to reinforce the popular mandate.
06:04So that's what's happening right now.
06:06People are debating.
06:07And tomorrow we will have the conclusions from all of these different workspaces.
06:13So that is up for right now.
06:16And we will continue bringing all the information throughout the day until this second day of
06:21the Bolivarian Congress finishes.
06:24Thank you, Belen, for all your remarks and the info you gave us.