The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, affirmed this Tuesday that the Liberator Simón Bolívar watches over the destinies of all the Latin American people, during his speech at the ceremony to commemorate the 194th Anniversary of the legacy of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas (capital).
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00:00We're going live to Venezuela as the people is remembering today the 194th anniversary
00:09of the death of liberator Simón Bolívar.
00:11Let's see the live images.
00:14Here it is, the territorial militia from here to there of the military power of our
00:34militia people that is empowered more and more every day for the political power, strengthening
00:45democracy, the Bolivarian democracy, ahead of the threats of the empire.
00:52Here is a force ahead of the threats of fascists.
00:57Here is the people in arms with weapons at hand, willing to defend the homeland and give
01:04everything to defend the homeland in the face of threats, seizures, aggressions of imperialists
01:15and fascists.
01:17So, fellow president, here is this militia that today, in this anniversary of the immortality
01:25of the liberator Simón Bolívar, creator of the military thinking, that today the Bolivarian
01:34armed forces of the Venezuelan people in this anniversary of its creation, here are these
01:41men and women of the people following the example of the liberator, of Commander Chávez
01:49and of you, fellow president Nicolás Maduro.
01:53I'm going to leave General Commander of the militia, Major General Romero Bolívar, to give his speech.
02:03Good afternoon, Chief Commander.
02:07Here is present the people attending the call of the homeland, same call made in 1810 when a group
02:19of men and women were called to Cabildo asking to deliver what was left of the Spanish cologne to
02:30the people, and the republic was born at that moment.
02:33There were not military school barracks, just the people, and there were born Bolívarian militia
02:40that Bolívar founded, and today it's 194th anniversary.
02:49Men and women of this generation that make up the first special component of our glorious
02:55armed forces come to stay present to Venezuela, to the rest of the people that are not here,
03:03that is its protector, weapon to defend our independence and freedom, love, tranquility
03:10and peace of our homeland.
03:13So we will never forget that love for our homeland comes first, because together we
03:19will triumph, and our destiny is triumphant.
03:34Good afternoon.
03:43¡Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela!
03:53A applause to you.
04:07The bright sun of today.
04:11On a special day, December 17 of this year, 24th of the 21st century, 194 years from today,
04:31we say goodbye to the greatest, the one who gave everything he had, his body, his life,
04:43even his wealth, because he was born in this city, in a wealthy household.
04:55But he gave up his wealth for the freedom of the peoples of America.
05:01And a day like today, 194 years ago, the good soul of the peoples liberated by his sword
05:15moved by running the news of the passing of the liberator father.
05:27But he didn't die.
05:29He was still present, as Miguel Ángel Asturias would say, watching the destiny of his people.
05:45And this bright sun of this afternoon in Caracas reminds us that the ideal and the strength
05:53of a believer today rides more than ever in his home, Venezuela, the Bolivarian Venezuela.
06:13As the poet said, Pablo Neruda,
06:17Holy Father that art in our land, water of our silent latitude, everything has your name, Father, in our home.
06:37Your lasting sugarcane sweetness.
06:41Believer has a special brightness.
06:47The believer bird over the believer potato, salt, shadow, currents, stones, everything that is ours comes from your life,
07:05your heritage where rivers, plains, your heritage.
07:13It's our bread of every day, Father.
07:17And he would say forever, the great poet of America, Pablo Neruda.
07:27Because believer wakes up every hundred years when the people wakes up.
07:35And the people woke up here to never fall asleep again, to never be betrayed again.
07:43It woke up forever, the Bolivarian people.
07:47And here he's become a worker, a facial, a Malaysian.
08:01It's amazing the images I always say that have traveled the avenues of Caracas today.
08:15Beautifying it.
08:19Happy day.
08:21That day in which with the constituent organic law of the Bolivarian Armed Forces,
08:31it was recognized the historic role and incorporated to the Venezuelan legislation the Bolivarian National Militia as the fifth special component of the military forces of Venezuela to defend its sovereignty and its right to peace.
08:51Great images of a people that loves peace.
09:03That is what we love the most, the right of our families to live in peace, the right of our workers to work and prosperity,
09:17the right of our country for a century, thanks to Believer Sucre and so many more, to be Venezuelans, Latin Americans, to have a true republic, independent, sovereign.
09:37That is why happy day when the National Constituent Assembly of Peace that we elected with the votes of the people on the 30th of July, 2017,
09:51had proved in the name of the whole people of Venezuela that the Bolivarian National Militia were born and was backed by a constituent law of organic character based on the principles of the Constitution of 25 years ago.
10:09I want to greet the superior state of the Bolivarian Armed Forces, great words of Major General Romero Bolivar, commander of the Bolivarian National Militia, professional officer of our army,
10:35and to all of the officials that in a very special way are together with the people building the military power of the National Bolivarian Militia in the fields, in the factories.
10:51I congratulate you.
10:53In the name of the Bolivarian spirit, it is being constructed what is needed.
10:59I also congratulate ministers, militias that came building this power that is so important for our country.
11:11From here, I send greetings to the UPDs present here and all of the national structure of the National Bolivarian Militia, more than 4,300,000 militias in neighborhoods, fields, north to south, east to west.
11:37I want to thank the proposal made to me by the first tenant of militia, minister of the popular power for work, and professor of schools, Eduardo Piñate, of today, December 17,
11:59reactivating all of the bodies of fighters of the working class throughout the country in a new plan of defense, of active defense, active defense of the right to peace, of production and productivity.
12:27Venezuela has a defensive system, a defensive concept that is perfect, inherited from centuries of fight.
12:39From Guaicaipuro, from Jose Leonardo Chirino, from Bolivar, from Sucre, from our general of the sovereign people and its united revolutionary army, Ezequiel Zamora, taking the best doctrines, universal doctrines.
13:06As the one of the Vietnamese people, Venezuela has a concept of war of the whole people to defend the homeland.
13:15That's the concept we have been implementing and building.
13:25And the protagonist of the concept, as the Constitution states from 25 years ago, the protagonist is the Venezuelan people.
13:37I was talking before arriving here at this impressive place, this militia place, about a great level of preparation, discipline, self-consciousness, and organization.
13:59You have achieved the Bolivarian and popular militia, national militia.
14:09A great concept taken to practice.
14:15It is reflected in the permanent exercises, and it is shining today in this beautiful day where we remember the immortality of the liberator.
14:29We have to empower more and more the peoples.
14:35If someone asks me what's the key to make irreversible peace, sovereignty, independence, and the right to prosperity of Venezuela, to make irreversible the revolution of the 21st century, I would say empowering and organizing the people every day.
15:05Every day more.
15:09That is why we are in the right path, in the right direction.
15:19Of the great transformations of the country, brothers and sisters of the people, fellow mates, militias, men and women of good, patriots of Venezuela.
15:37Empowering communities, empowering the workers, farmers, fishermen, indigenous communities, empowering the neighborhoods, urbanism.
15:53Never lose a single second in the process of empowering the working class.
16:03This is something called something developed by Chavez, historic popular bloc of a humanist advanced society and a socialist society of the 21st century.
16:17The powerful historic bloc.
16:19Empower it in every sense.
16:25Here is the capacity, integrated capacity, and constitutional and legal of the historic bloc of Venezuela, which is a peaceful historic bloc, but armed and ready to defend the homeland ahead of any threat or aggression.
16:53Preparing ourselves to grant peace and empower the people.
17:05The ancient concept of Burgos democracy, of the west, of elite democracy, is not applying here.
17:17Here democracy is of the people, for the people, direct democracy, popular democracy, organized people, empowered people.
17:27And every day with the examples of it.
17:33Last Sunday, what a great example of power provided by the neighbors of the communal circuits of the country.
17:49When they elected for the first time in history the communal justices of peace that communities have elected by popular vote.
18:01I congratulate communities.
18:05I congratulate the justices that were elected.
18:11I've been watching you and listening to you by social media.
18:19Accelerate and deepen the construction of the power of the people.
18:25The people have its justices and is exercising judicial power in communities in its territory.
18:37This year we have had an amazing experience with the two consultations so that the people elect and vote the necessary project for their communities.
19:03The resources go directly to them without intermediaries, without mediators, so that the community builds what they need, schools and everything else.
19:19Next year we are going to carry out four direct consultations in the sense of direct resources in the 5,297 communal circuits.
19:31And I set a date for the first election of 2025, and it will be on Sunday, January 26, 2025, the first election of the next year to empower the people.
19:49Popular self-government, the capacity of consultation, decision.
19:57How is that called?
19:59Dictatorship or democracy.
20:05Democracy of elites or popular democracy.
20:09And what do we want in Venezuela?
20:13That elites rule, oligarchies ruling, last names?
20:21Those who have the right ruling are the people.
20:29And we are building and constructing self-government.
20:35We need to strengthen, fellow mates, the communal parliament.
20:41So when we talk about public powers, we are not only talking about powerful institutions, which might be the five Venezuelan powers, executive power, the people here, legislative power, the National Assembly, judicial power, powerful in the streets.
21:05Applause to all of the magistrates and justicers for their great role in the elections of communal justices of the peace.
21:19The electoral powers and the citizen civic power, we're building self-government, communal councils, communes, self-government, judicial power, justices elected by the people.
21:45It's amazing how we are advancing moral power, civic power.
21:53We need to relaunch it, the power of the people that says the truth.
22:03Build the economic power of the people, empower it in every sense, and strengthen the capacity of leadership and base.
22:17This country needs to get ready to have a democracy every time more advanced at the hands of the people, not at the hands of elites.
22:31In the same measure, we go deep in the building of a new power.
22:37In that same measure, threats of fascism and of last name on their allies, national and internationally, will disappear.
22:49And if something was lacking to the power of self-government, of justice, economic power, the power of vote, these people then, also, along with its powerful and heroic Bolivarian armed forces,
23:09admirals, officers, this power might have, in all communities, all factories, and all work centers, military power at hands, the national Bolivarian militia, the bodies, the corpse of fighters, of farmers, indigenous communities, of fishermen.
23:35What a wonderful thing, what we are building, based on effort, consciousness, a new ideology, born from the Venezuelan Republic.
23:59No one has given us anything, and we are not imitating anybody.
24:08Our revolution is pure Venezuelan, Latin American, and Caribbean, and was born from our heroes and heroines.
24:23Our revolution was born from the three roots fed from the sources of so many anonymous heroes.
24:35Our revolution was born from the powerful resilience of Caribbean Indians, of Guaipuro, and so many others.
24:52It was born from the beautiful Third Republic.
25:02In a day like this, liberators among Bolivars signed and published, in an official way, in Orinoco Angostura, the decree of creation of the Republic of the Great Colombia.
25:261819, 205 years, he was coming already, successful from Boyacá, and he didn't stop.
25:42So, our ideas, our doctrines, our values that push us towards the future in this 21st century,
25:52we are born here under this beautiful sun, under this sky, under this land.
25:59A week ago, we were celebrating with our people, and the peoples of our America,
26:08the 200 years of the great victory of the Battle of Ayacucho, that ended in a successful way with the campaign of the liberation of the South.
26:22200 years, and our history comes from there.
26:28That is why Venezuela is so important to take care of it, because we are not only taking care of the right to peace and the existence of the present and future generations, which is already beautiful.
26:43We are not only taking care of our wealth, our riches, which is ours.
26:48It doesn't belong to anybody else, but we are also taking care of the spiritual wealth, richness that we can inherit to the future generation and show it to humanity.
27:00We are taking care of the spiritual, political, and military legacy of the liberators of America, of those who founded an entire continent,
27:12of those who built popular armies, revolutionary armies.
27:21It's so great what we take care of, what we treasure, but the best way to take care of something is building, making, developing ideas.
27:35The original ideas of our three roots in the present is foreseeing the future.
27:47We have had a 2024 very good and beautiful.
27:52I wish you to all of the military family of Venezuela, the militia family of Venezuela, and the whole people of Venezuela,
28:05a blessed Christmas, and get ready to welcome 2024 with welfare, blessed, in peace, and happy.
28:21In the next days, we will be getting ready to welcome Jesus Christ and getting ready to welcome New Year's Eve.
28:36No one will disrupt the right to happiness, to Christmas, and New Year's Eve in peace in Venezuela.
28:48If you understood, you understood.
28:52No one will disrupt it, and we will be in charge of preserving the right to peace, tranquility, and happiness of the 30 millions of Venezuelans,
29:05because when we do it, we do it for all.
29:11It's an important day.
29:15Here are gathered a team of 300 leaders of the Congress of the Historic Block, preparing plans for 2025-2030,
29:33getting ready, and preparing us so that Historic Block, born from 200 years of fight and unites the Venezuelans,
29:50consolidates in the first quarter of the next year and expresses the capacity of building self-popular government,
30:04popular movement, popular power, democracy, participatory democracy, true democracy.
30:14194 years after, Bolivar is still with us.
30:25I will say something to you, a very special feeling I have since I was a child.
30:33I never thought that I was going to become president, and I will be in this position,
30:43commander-in-chief of a Bolivarian armed force so beautiful as the one we have.
30:54But I can tell you, and my wife knows that it is this way,
31:02December 17th, I don't know you, but this is the first time I say this,
31:09always on December 17th, since I was a child, I felt sadness, like I felt like crying.
31:20That was the day in which we were told that Bolivar left us there in Santa Marta.
31:30From here, I sent greetings to the people of Santa Marta, who welcomed Commander Chavez when we visited them.
31:39Those people of Santa Marta took to the streets in an impressive way.
31:44I remember how then-President Juan Manuel Santos couldn't avoid showing his envy,
31:55because you know that people do not want that traitor oligarchy.
32:02And Chavez arrived, and people took to the streets, thousands of people,
32:09and people took to the streets, thousands of people, humble people, people from the streets of Santa Marta.
32:17That people of Santa Marta, that people of Colombia, love Venezuela, love Bolivar, love our revolution,
32:26and admire the Bolivarian revolution of the 21st century.
32:31And from here, we send a great greetings to the people of Colombia, brothers and sisters,
32:41always together, Colombia and Venezuela.
32:47Treasons of Santander will never be imposed again.
32:54The unity of our peoples, we need to strengthen it and base it in the love of ourselves for Colombia
33:08and the humble men and women of Colombia for Venezuela.
33:16And I was feeling that.
33:23Let's upgrade Jacobo to lieutenant of militia.
33:39You're from Caracas also, right?
33:44I know you since 40 years ago in Caracas, raised here in Chacao.
33:58You're a neighbor from Chacao and Maracao, two great indigenous caciques.
34:08And I had that feeling.
34:14And I say that year after year, the feeling is the same.
34:20I was very moved in this act because I feel the spirit of Bolivar in our people.
34:29Because I feel that Bolivar tells us from the sun that I'm with you.
34:37Because I feel Bolivar's presence in the revolutionary people, in the fighting people,
34:46in the national militia, in its troops.
34:53I feel that our liberator, your ideas, example, and sacrifice was, saw, and came.
35:12The great returner of Bolivarianism, the one who saw return your ideas, came back.
35:26Commander Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías, the follower of the ideas of Bolivar,
35:33of the original project, of which we have swore loyalty.
35:46But we did it in a truthful way.
35:53We are men and women who swear truly.
36:00Because here in this land, Venezuela, the Jerusalem of America, they call it.
36:08The Venezuela that saw the armies and generals and soldiers being born,
36:17traveling this country 200 years ago.
36:20This Venezuela that is an example of dignity, courage, patriotism, and humanism in the 21st century.
36:29Here in this Venezuela, when we swear, we do it with our lives, with our heart, and with the truth.
36:39And I believe that today it's an opportunity.
36:47Fighters of the working class, we have here the first brigade.
36:58I announced seven days ago that the military house in a new concept is going to incorporate
37:05the militia forces of the great Caracas, who ensure the protection not only of the president,
37:13but also of Miraflores, and also of the Venezuelan people.
37:22Uniting to the earned glories of the Guard of Honor of participating in Boyacá,
37:31in Carabobo, in Bomboná, in Pichincha, Junín, and 200 years ago being the triumphers of Ayacucho.
37:43So I here present ahead of you the first brigade of militia of the Guard of Presidential of Honor
37:54that has the name of militia triumphers of Ayacucho.
38:09We need to build and advance everyone on its field.
38:20Everyone needs to improve this country from their position.
38:26If you have to sell hot dogs at a corner in Venezuela, do the best ones, healthy and tasty.
38:38If your duty is to watch the border in a guard position, do it.
38:54If your duty is taking care of the energy service against permanent sabotage,
39:02keep fighting that we are succeeding.
39:08If you are workers of PIVES, following the plans to recover efforts, investments,
39:17and the production of oil that has achieved a million, and it's going to achieve two and three and four,
39:24producing oil, gas, and taking care of the facilities from sabotage.
39:31Remember the sabotage with bombs that took place in the gas central,
39:38although we recovered it in record time thanks to the working class.
39:44Workers of the transportation, drivers of buses, of trucks, of motors,
39:57workers of the subway, of caracas, of the trains.
40:01If your duty every day is to provide a service, do it with love,
40:10with the people, always hugging the people,
40:13and granting the security of all of the transportation systems of the country.
40:20If you workers of cement have to produce as you have to,
40:27achieving a hundred percent of the capacity planned,
40:34I can give you an information that I have here.
40:37We are producing enough cement for national consumption.
40:44I'm getting great investments that were signed and are entering the country
40:49because we are going to get the installation capacity of Venezuela to a hundred percent.
40:57And with thirty percent, we cover the capacity to build homes for the people,
41:03which is the main idea.
41:06So that cement is in the market at a good price for those who want to build it.
41:12And the rest of it, you know what's going to happen with it.
41:24You know what's going to happen with the rest of production.
41:29We're going to export it, and money is going to come in
41:34to invest in the people, in the workers, new income sources, new income sources.
41:47We saw it with you, Pequiven.
41:53We have new plans that will be known
42:00to get the productive capacity to a hundred percent,
42:04and new plans with international alliance,
42:06because Venezuela has to be, as Commander Chavez said,
42:10the petrochemical powerhouse of the 21st century.
42:14What else can I say to you who are the working class,
42:20who work with your hands as our Lord Jesus Christ,
42:27who was he, a children who was born with his father, Jose.
42:44And his mother, Maria, gave him birth.
42:51And he was a worker.
42:54He is a worker Jesus that blesses and protects us.
43:01We have everything, workers.
43:04Let's keep building that national union, the peace of Venezuela.
43:10Let's keep defeating fascists.
43:13Let's keep defeating terrorism.
43:18It doesn't matter if it comes from outside or inside.
43:22Let's keep taking care of each enterprise, each company.
43:26And I want today, the day of Bolivar,
43:29the day of the immortality of Bolivar,
43:32swear in ahead of his sword,
43:37before of the sun,
43:40before of the open heart and beautiful heart of yours,
43:47brothers and sisters of the working class,
43:51militias of the country.
43:58You, wherever you see me,
44:00we're in national broadcasting, live, and also in social media.
44:12Wherever you see me,
44:17put your hand in your heart.
44:21Here is the original sword
44:25that was in the hands of our liberator, Simón Bolívar,
44:31with which it directed the battle of Carabobo.
44:38It was delivered to me by his great-great children
44:43of General Aldaneta,
44:46so that I have it in my hands.
44:51In the leadership of his victorious years
44:56in which we have moved forward,
45:00I wanted to take it out today.
45:03Look how it shines with the sun of this Caracas, of the liberator.
45:09Because here, with his example,
45:11his sword and his spirit,
45:13we are going to swear, militias,
45:19I swear,
45:22before God,
45:25before the liberator sword of Carabobo,
45:31I swear by our liberators,
45:37I swear for Venezuela,
45:42I swear by our Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez
45:49that I will not rest my heart and soul
45:56until we entirely consolidate
46:04the Popular Civic Police Unit
46:09and guarantee peace and union of Venezuela.
46:17I had all of the threats and aggressions.
46:20I swear that in all of the working centers of Venezuela,
46:28we will reactivate in a powerful way
46:34the fighting corps of the working class,
46:38so that in a perfect union
46:41with the National Bolivarian Armed Forces,
46:46we guarantee the advancement of a powerful Venezuela,
46:52of a Venezuela in peace,
46:56without anyone or anything disrupting it.
47:00I swear it for Bolivar.
47:02I swear it for the homeland.
47:07You are sworn in as fighting corps of the working class
47:14and go to battle and always to victory.
47:17Congratulations, men and women of the homeland.
47:20Congratulations.
48:31This must remind you
48:35the secret swear that we have made today
48:40before this Sword of Carabobo
48:43with which our liberator conducted the great victory
48:48of the campaign of Carabobo
48:50and defeated the imperial troops.
48:53Glorious history.
48:55Men and women,
48:57glorious way of reminding
49:01the immortal spirit of the liberator
49:09brought and resuscitated for the 21st century
49:14by our commander Chavez.
49:16And we can scream today
49:18before this son of Venezuela
49:20Chavez is alive.
49:22And Bolivar is alive.
49:26Independence and socialist homeland.
49:30The son of Venezuela comes from the Ezequiel.
49:35Always loyal.
49:40Long live for the Bolivarian people.
49:45Long live for the police-military-civic union.
49:53Long live for the national Bolivarian militia.
49:57Long live for the homeland.
49:59Honored ever to victory.
50:01We will triumph.
50:03Thank you very much.
50:15The Bolivarian militia now
50:19is a military-civic homeland.
50:23With courage and bravery it is time
50:28to surrender and sacrifice for peace.
50:32On the front, women fight
50:37with men of unfair equality.
50:42We were live to Caracas, Venezuela
50:47in the framework of the 194th anniversary
50:50of the passing of liberator Simón Bolívar
50:53to immortality.
50:54With the sword worth which liberator fought
50:57the Carabobo fight in his hand,
50:59President Nicolás Maduro addressed
51:01the national militias and assured
51:03that the people is willing to keep
51:05Bolívar's legacy alive for many reasons,
51:07but especially for his role in fighting
51:09against colonialism in Venezuela
51:11and Latin America, for being a creator
51:13and guide of the military thought
51:15of Venezuela.
51:16Addressing those present in a massive march,
51:19President Nicolás Maduro made a call
51:21to empowering communities and organizing
51:23the people every day and empowering
51:25Latin America in honor of Bolívar's struggle
51:28for the most dispossessed classes,
51:30for the union of all America,
51:32for the internationalism and anti-imperialism
51:35that mark his trajectory.
51:37And with this information, we invite you
51:39to stay tuned with Telesur for more details
51:41on this historic day for the Venezuelan people.