TeleSUR Special Envoy Yunus Soner reports from the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas, Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro gave his annual speech and management report. He also interviews Mayerlin Arias, member of the “Robert Serra” Movement. teleSUR
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00We were listening to the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, as he presented his annual
00:06message to the nation within the framework of the National Plan of the Seven Transformations
00:11for a New Era of Transition to Socialism.
00:14In his remarks, the President made a summary report of his administration during the year
00:202024, reiterated the call for a constitutional reform and addressed issues such as economic
00:27recovery, political stability and the possible designation of budgets for social investments
00:33in 2025, in spite of the destabilizing manoeuvres of the national and international extreme
00:38right wing against the country.
00:40If we have a country in holy peace, the President said, it is because we have defeated hatred,
00:46fascism, intolerance.
00:48And now we contact our special envoy, Junos Zuner, who is at the Teresa Carreño Theatre
00:55and has all the details and highlights from the annual address of President Nicolás Maduro
01:00before the National Assembly.
01:02Hi Junos, what can you share with us?
01:05Front of the Cultural Centre Teresa Carreño, here in downtown Caracas, where the speech
01:12of the President has just finished, a fundamental speech required by the Constitution, Article
01:19271 of the Bolivarian Constitution, requires the President to hold an annual report within
01:27the 10 days after the start of the parliamentary year, and that speech is to be held in front
01:33of the National Assembly, of all the National Assembly members, was done here in the theatre
01:42of Teresa Carreño, because there were thousands of people listening to this speech outside
01:50of the theatre as well, a resemblance of taking the oath ceremony that the President made
01:58also both in front of the National Assembly and later on in front of the Presidential
02:03Palace Miraflores.
02:06So that was a speech that was partly looking back to 2024, giving a balance of what happened
02:14in that year, the achievements of the government and the challenges it faced, and it was a
02:20look forward to what's to come in 2025 and later on.
02:25But I have a guest, Mayerlin Arias, thank you for taking the time Mayerlin.
02:30You have been inside and listening to the President, aren't you?
02:34Yes, I was in the Teresa Carreño Theatre, listening and watching our President, our
02:41National Assembly, our deputies, that are listening to this annual message.
02:46And how did you perceive the speech?
02:49What's your major take from that speech?
02:52What is the message that you got from the President's speech?
02:56We are very happy to listen and watch our President because it was an illustrative speech
03:07talking about all the things that we have been through in six years, all the growing
03:13in economics matters, but also in social politics, public politics in our country.
03:20So we are very happy to see that in these six years we are defeating hyperinflation
03:27and also fascism, you know, because we have a strong democracy.
03:33He was announcing that in this year, 2025, we are going to have ten elections, popular
03:42elections about community projects that we always start in 2024.
03:49So now we are going to ask people in the community what project they want to build or to grow
03:59in culture, in youth, but also in economic service, you know.
04:07So we are very happy with the achievements of our country in these six years, but we
04:13think that the major victory of these six years is the peace.
04:19We are in peace.
04:20He is building bridges to the other people that think different from us.
04:29He is speaking to all the Venezuelan people.
04:32He is saying, come to us.
04:34We want the happiness of all the people, of the Venezuelan people.
04:39No matter party, no matter ideology, the important thing is that you want peace and you want
04:46health care for free, education for free, houses for the people with vulnerabilities.
04:56So it's justice, social justice.
04:59So he's saying to the Venezuelan people that in other countries that they are welcome here,
05:07that we have security.
05:09We have major achievement in security.
05:15Venezuela is the safest country of America in this moment.
05:21Thank you very much.
05:22Indeed, the president's speech was dominated by achieving or maintaining that peace.
05:29And based on it, he announced a number of political measures, a number of reforms that
05:36include, for instance, the introduction of a new ministry of foreign trade, that include
05:42the introduction of the digital Bolivar, that include, as you mentioned in your introduction,
05:51the introduction of the Constitutional Reform Committee.
05:55So it was indeed a very forward-looking speech.
06:00And these measures and these new ideas will surely be discussed and started being applied
06:09in the next days, weeks and months.
06:12In summary, this was an important speech because it is one of the most important moments, prolonged
06:20moments of government communication with the Venezuelan people established in the Constitution.
06:27But here, President Nicolas Maduro displayed a lot of concrete steps, concrete ideas and
06:34even signed some of them into decrees that will be started being applied from tomorrow on.
06:42Very concrete speech.
06:44That's for the time being what we can report here from here, downtown Caracas, in the front
06:50of the Cultural Center, Teresa Carreño.
06:55Thank you, Eunice.
06:56And also thank you, analyst Mayelin Arias, for all the information.
07:00And we were listening to our special envoy in Caracas, Eunice Zuner, who attended President
07:05Nicolas Maduro's annual message to the nation at the Teresa Carreño Theater.
07:10And this is all for the moment, but we invite you to stay tuned with TELESUR.