00:00Venezuela is living with the joy it's passed towards the elections and our special envoy
00:05Junior Sonner is being a witness of this.
00:08Let's see the following report from the Petare neighborhood in Caracas.
00:12Good afternoon from Petare, Caracas.
00:15This is right now we are at a meeting at the rally of President Maduro in the back stage
00:27here behind me and we are listening to the song Chavez el Corazon del Pueblo, Chavez
00:34the people's heart.
00:35Maduro has held a very emotional speech here in front of thousands of people gathered here
00:43in Petare, one of the poorer neighborhoods, they are dancing, they are remembering, and
00:49he also remembers the Comandante Hugo Chavez, he remembered how Chavez in his last days
00:55demanded of Maduro to defend the revolution, the Bolivarian revolution, how he, Nicolás
01:01Maduro promised him that.
01:03Maduro also remembered and told how he was working here, right on this side, in the Metrobus
01:11station, how he was eating here arepas, how he spent his working life here in these poor
01:17neighborhoods, stating that he is a man of the people.
01:21As you see, there is a huge crowd, they are dancing, as I said, a very emotional speech.
01:31Maduro also made some concrete proposals, but moreover than that, more importantly,
01:37he said, I will be the president on July 28th.
01:42He demonstrated an incredible self-confidence here in Petare and keeps on doing it, and
01:50the people are, as you see, convinced for it.
02:07So he asked the people here, who will win on July 28th?
02:11The people said, Maduro, and he answered, no, the people will win.
02:16He demonstrated here, at one of his bases, a strong unity between him and the people
02:24of Petare, responded positively to that.
02:28A very self-confident presidential candidate here, Nicolás Maduro, behind me.
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