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.
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