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00:00So we are live with images in Caracas as President Maduro meets with the Security Cabinet to
00:11discuss different security situations right now in the country.
00:17We're seeing live images as the President is greeting all the officials that have gathered
00:21here.
00:22This comes as we had previously in Telosor as well with the Minister of Interior, Peace
00:30and Security, José Arcobello, denouncing the far-right plans to try to destabilize
00:35and to prevent the election of May 25th from taking place.
00:39So this is a meeting of the Security Cabinet led by the President of the Bolivarian Republic
00:45of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, who will be providing statements very shortly as the meeting
00:51commences.
00:52Please repeat, these are live images coming straight from Caracas.
01:08So we can expect all topics to be analyzed here of what Diosdado was denouncing.
01:16Good afternoon to all the families that are watching us on medias, on the networks.
01:25Today is Sunday, May 19th, 2025.
01:38Today is the 100th birth anniversary of Malcolm X, hero of the struggles for the liberation
01:47of the U.S. people, hero of the struggle of the oppressed people of the world, who was
01:54assassinated when he barely had 40 years, Malcolm X.
02:03Actually his life was one like a movie, a hard life, difficult life.
02:13With his family, the neighborhood where he grew up, he was in prison, and then he had
02:20a renaissance of a very powerful leader, Malcolm X.
02:23From Venezuela, we say honor and glory to Malcolm X and to the powerful movement for
02:33the struggle of equality and civil rights of the United States of America, a legendary
02:41movement in those years they killed Malcolm X, they had already killed John F. Kennedy,
02:47they had already killed Robert Kennedy, and they had already killed Martin Luther King.
02:56How many people has the U.S. empire killed within its lands to prevent an awakening of
03:03the conscience of its people?
03:05They did what was possible and even impossible, using violence back then against the democratic
03:16strength and alternative within the United States.
03:19That's why the 100th birth anniversary of Malcolm X must be celebrated with all honors
03:29and to immortally maintain his spirit and message.
03:35So greetings to all the Venezuelan people.
03:37We are in the old Simón Bolívar of this presidential home, the Miraflores Palace,
03:47the presidential home of the people, precisely with the team that guaranteed victory of peace
03:59and security.
04:00This is the team of peace, of security.
04:04Vice Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who celebrated her birthday yesterday, congratulations.
04:17Diosdado Cabello, who comes from a very important press conference just a few minutes ago, Vladimir
04:30Español López, President of Citizen Security.
04:34We were together in Russia in an important strategic tour of the new world that is birthing
04:40Vice President of Sovereign Nationality, Minister of Public Ministry, Hernández Lárez, the
04:50strategic commanders, commanders of the Bolivarian Army, of the Air Force, the National Militias,
05:06captains and commanders of Miranda, La Guaira, all present here, the head of the Military
05:27Counterintelligence General Directorate, General Director of the National Intelligence Service,
05:47Federal Commissioner, Director of the Criminal Investigation.
06:06Those that come from the old guard, we still call it from the old name.
06:10As a fact, Celia was a detective from that organization.
06:21She still carries what she used to carry back then when she was part of the organization.
06:29Greetings to all the police personnel, same way General Santiago, National Director of
06:40the Bolivarian National Police, the whole team that has the experience and has the capacity
06:58for imperfect military, civic, popular military union, guarantee the rights, the constitutional
07:06rights of all our people to peace, to stability, to tranquility.
07:18A good constitutional lawyer would say, like her man, he would say, for the use and his
07:29right to choose, his right to sovereignty, to popular sovereignty.
07:39Venezuela this Sunday will happily go to the 32nd election, a first time there is a combined
07:48election of regional and governance of legislative councils and for the National Assembly.
08:00This means it's doubly important at the first level and our people know this.
08:07In the world they censor this, there is a silence.
08:21No one wants to say that this is the 32nd election, so they are lying, they are manipulating
08:28the information of these great medias of the U.S. and Europe, they are censoring,
08:40they don't want it to be known that the Venezuelan people is actively participating on their
08:46streets as part of a great electoral debate.
08:50They don't want the people to know that the Venezuelan people go to the 32nd election
08:54as mandated by the constitution.
09:01Here as I say, there have been always rain, thunderstorms, but all elections have been
09:09carried out with invasion threats, Guarimbas, economic war, the elections have been held.
09:15There are leaders in the world here from Latin America that say, I do not share this, I do
09:22not share that opinion, but they have told me this in private, that in Venezuela amidst
09:30this massive blockade that the U.S. empire has on Venezuela, they think that Venezuela
09:38should not hold elections.
09:40We have all heard this in private, I do not agree with that, because no one can take away
09:46the right to the people to elect, to vote, to participate, to have their authorities.
09:53Why would it be taken away?
09:55With economic wars, they make us suffer, yes, well, we know how to resist, and we know how
10:03to move forward.
10:07That's why this year we have had more elections, constitutional elections that I refer to them
10:20like this, are the elections to elect authorities, mayorships, municipal councils, governance,
10:30national assembly, the presidency.
10:36From that point of view, this is the 32nd election in 26 years.
10:42What country in the world has done that?
10:44What country?
10:45Can anyone tell me?
10:47No one can say it, because no one has done it, Venezuela, the besieged, the vilified,
10:59the attacked, the Christian, but we go with the spirit of Christ, always, of resurrection
11:06from resurrection to resurrection, from victory to victory, and that's what's going to happen
11:11next Sunday, May 25th.
11:15And the date is set with all, with the power of God Almighty, to be a day of peace, stability,
11:22participation, and of sovereign decision, sovereign decision of voters, of citizens,
11:36of the people, because the power is in your hand, you women, men, you have the power,
11:45you have the power, and you are responsible that in Venezuela there is peace, and your
11:53vote is a guarantee for peace.
11:55I will say in the face of the threats that have been denounced by our colleague Diosdado
12:00Cabello, that 38 new mercenaries detained, the Albanian mafia that governs Ecuador sent
12:09part of his mercenaries, trained mercenaries, to put bombs in Venezuela, and they have been
12:14detained.
12:15The Albanian mafia has been denounced.
12:19We have them.
12:20They were detained, and three phones have been seized, and the phones are speaking.
12:24The Albanian mafia, and why the Albanian mafia from Ecuador, Albanian Colombian, drug trafficking
12:34from Colombia, Albania, and from Novoa in Ecuador, why?
12:40Because Eric Prince is there, and if Eric Prince is there, then the U.S. Empire is present
12:46as well.
12:49They are behind everything, but if they are behind everything that we know, and we know
12:54how to act in perfect harmony, civic, military, and police union, and in the face of those
13:05that want violence, sabotage, explosion, and bullets, I tell them, vote yes, Guarimbas
13:13no.
13:14Vote yes, violence no.
13:16Vote si, bullet no.
13:18Vote, vote, vote, go to vote next Sunday for peace, for stability, as an example of
13:27sovereignty before drug trafficking mafias from Ecuador, Albania, and Colombia, and from
13:37the U.S. Empire.
13:43A thousand demons come firing, while a thousand angels fighting it, millions of angels flying,
13:52and those angels are the people, men and women, that are watching this, in this beautiful
14:00day, cool day, of this Monday, May 19th afternoon of the year 2025.
14:12Here is the team that has the guarantee next to the popular power, Ms. Vice President,
14:21colleague Justado, with the people, everything.
14:27Without the people, nothing.
14:30We are the people, a uniformed people, an empowered people.
14:34I am a people president, officials from the people, commissioners from the people, generals
14:41from the people, vice president of peoples.
14:45We are all the people, but we are here, thanks to the common men and women.
14:55I'm here thanks to them, and I know why I'm here, and for whom I'm here, and where I come
15:01from, and where I have to go.
15:03My mind has not been clouded, nor my ego has been swollen, because I'm a president, and
15:09I live in this palace, and I travel all over.
15:12I know very well where I'm standing, and where my roots are, and they are in that brave,
15:19victorious, and heroic people that we have, admired by the whole world, and that we have
15:27known how to make our own path.
15:33As Bolívar always said, colleagues from the military that are listening, students
15:43from all academies, from all the Bolivarian Army Academy, Bolívar fell back then, in
15:54the late 1800s, and certainly at that moment, as the conflict was almost being resolved
16:02of the incorporation of Maracaibo to the Free Provinces, the armistice was broken.
16:13We have two historian generals that have studied history, and surely there were some that said
16:25no, no, no, we cannot accept the liberation of Maracaibo, I'm certain that that happened.
16:29No one wrote it, but one with the experience that gets, one might be able to see what the
16:36debate was for Bolívar to say what he said.
16:41And I'm sure that people were telling him, look, Bolívar, great liberator, well, Murillo,
16:50recognize us with a signature of the armistice and the regulation of the war, why are we
16:56going to break the armistice?
17:01Let's continue speaking with Murillo and to continue moving forward with Murillo.
17:06Maracaibo have to wait, and Bolívar said no.
17:11Maracaibo will not have to wait for anyone, it will be free, and if Murillo wants to break
17:16the armistice, we are ready and prepared.
17:20Bolívar had the Carabobo campaign in his mind, and the troops moving in the south and
17:24the west and the east, and doing all the different operations that you refer as the campaign,
17:32but there are some distraction campaigns.
17:37He was already making all these campaigns of taking Caracas and the movement in the
17:41south, because he had a main objective, to go in full strength and destroy the imperial
17:50army and the king of Spain, Pablo Murillo, who was here, and he was strong, he was superior
17:57in technology and weaponry, and in many other aspects, but he didn't have superiority in
18:05the heart.
18:07He took us to Carabobo and took us to Ayacucho.
18:11We were superior in our love for this land and freedom.
18:16So in that moment, Bolívar was very clear, and he said, prudence, look at the word that
18:23he used, prudence, because they were telling him, I'm sure that it had to be prudent,
18:30and then he said, prudence cancels to weigh nothing from Spain, not trust our luck, but
18:40only our strength, and I say prudence cancels that we don't trust anything from the US empire,
18:48from the fascist oligarchy, but that we trust our luck to our strength, to our popular military
18:58police union, and to our constitutional capacity of this country to move forward independently,
19:04sovereignly, without looking to the sides, but only looking forward.
19:11So it is necessary to adjust and to finalize properly all plans.
19:20As Diosdado Cabello was saying before, I want to greet all the leaders of the regions, of
19:28defense regions that are connected, if you can raise your hands over there, the leaders
19:35of the different areas, the leaders of the police forces in all states and regions of
19:41the country.
19:51I want to ratify what Diosdado was saying at noon.
19:57We cannot say everything, even though we are doing everything.
20:05We know that there is a system, an international system that is controlled by the empire, what
20:11they call the global empire of the west, that turns mercenaries, terrorists, that puts office
20:24and gives them an ID of defender of human rights, for those that move the money to finance
20:32the bombs that kill people.
20:34And then when justice takes action, the courts, the attorney generals act, then they quickly
20:43come out and declare them great defenders of human rights, and what they are planning
20:49is acts of terrorism.
20:52Always we have to act according to the law, to the constitution, strictly, every time
20:58even more.
21:00Because through the path of truth and justice, it's all possible.
21:04We have seen miracles in defense to the right of peace of Venezuela, always through peace
21:09and justice, with a lot of intelligence, with boldness, with a great capacity, professional
21:15capacity, and with great collaboration, national and international, of great friends.
21:23Because we discover this because there are good people in the world, and in Venezuela,
21:28that we are always paying attention, listening, and they send message, early alerts.
21:33I want to thank so many people, so many good people in our country, that activate their
21:41mechanism of intelligence permanently, and so many good people outside of our country,
21:49close to our country, and many of them far away from our country, that are paying attention
21:57and everything that they see and listen, they tell us to continue strengthening the
22:02care of peace and tranquility and the right to life of Venezuela.
22:13You have to continue taking action.
22:17The actions are in full development.
22:21The plans are perverse.
22:24We have experience to neutralize them.
22:27We have a vast experience, and we are neutralizing them.
22:33They have not stopped in their attempts to attack the power system, and we have to very
22:39quickly reinforce all the plans of protection of the power plants, from the communities
22:47to all the great generators, the first lines, protection of the power system.
22:55Remember that on July 28th, days before, we suffered an attack that was going to create
23:00a whole blackout in Venezuela, and on July 28th, we left, we suffered an attack that
23:05wanted to leave Venezuela completely blackout, so we have to pay attention to this.
23:11We have to be, we have to act strongly, the system that we talked the other time, I don't
23:15know if you remember, active intelligence, military, popular, and police, patrols, well-coordinated
23:32patrols in the quadrant of peace, and we have to be able to react quickly before any situation.
23:44We have to have a rapid reaction from police, popular, and military, intelligence, patrols,
23:55and reaction.
23:56What was the name?
23:59Imprec.
24:01Imprec.
24:03Intelligence, patrol, and reaction.
24:09Immediate reaction.
24:14That's still valid for today.
24:19For July 28th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, you know the coordinations that were made.
24:33They wanted to set fire to the country, to call for an invasion, a mercenary invasion
24:40to the country.
24:41As we know, there was a great victory of legality and constitution and peace of the country.
24:48A rapid victory in 48 hours, even though they did harm, without a doubt, they did harm.
24:57From there, well, they were strongly active by the end of December to prevent what was
25:04impossible to prevent.
25:07That on January 10th, the people would have a strange ceremony for the president of the
25:14republic, of the Bolivian Republic, and everything crumbled in their hands.
25:19At noon, when the president of the people was sworn in, in that brilliant and blessed
25:26event, their threats were failed history of the past once more.
25:37It was a good test that we endured, and we went over that test with a happy people, sovereign,
25:45working people.
25:48That was the last great threat.
25:51The rest has been conspiracy to harm here and there.
25:54Well, this is a struggle, a constant struggle for our country, a struggle for a new economic
26:03political model, the struggle for our independence, and they, that group that has strong relations
26:13with very powerful people in the U.S. government, family relations, and this will be known what
26:19I'm saying, family relationship with members of the mafias, the criminals, the most criminals
26:32of the U.S. power.
26:34They won't stop.
26:37That's why I always say, we, Venezuelans, when an electoral process comes around, we
26:47must always, we always must prepare to go to an electoral campaign, and that's what
26:54we do.
26:55And our people, especially this week, we're going to see this.
26:59Our people gets ready for great mobilizations, events, mainly festive ones.
27:06We have seen house from house of all candidates, 6,500 candidates, and I say to all those 6,500
27:19candidates, are you going to let someone take away the right for the people to decide
27:30who is going to be the governor, the mayor, or regional legislator?
27:35Who will decide this?
27:38An ambush full of violence from Maria Corina and her family relationships with the diabolical
27:46power of the U.S. or the sovereign peaceful people?
27:49Who decides in Venezuela?
27:51The U.S. empire and four evil people, sellouts, or you?
28:01Who is in charge?
28:04I have no doubt of what the answer is.
28:07Here, it has been decided, will decide, and next Sunday, the decision will be made by
28:17the naval, heroic, and brave Venezuelan people in the full exercise to vote, to elect, and
28:25to govern its country.
28:28So the team is fully activated in a one condition, that if it is necessary, we will change the
28:48condition so that all of you and your teams, with lots of professionalism, can continue
28:58doing what must be done, doing what must be done in the framework of the Constitution.
29:07And let those that want to cry, cry.
29:10We know the cowardice of the high commissioner of human rights, Volker Turk.
29:15A girl was kidnapped.
29:20Two-year-old girl was kidnapped, and I called him, and I told him, and he did nothing.
29:27Not even a single call Volker Turk made.
29:31I called him.
29:35Over 253 Venezuelan workers, the history will be known of every one of them at the right
29:41moment.
29:43And he has done nothing.
29:46Now I'm calling him to denounce the grave cases that we have discovered of other children
29:53that have been kidnapped in the United States of Venezuelan nationality.
29:57Very grave cases that we have discovered in the last hours, in the last days.
30:03Now, Volker Turk, the high commissioner of human rights, that's always in Washington,
30:10that receives orders from the European Union, there he comes to defend the people that are
30:16financing the terrorists that are captured by the Venezuelan institutions.
30:20There he does come out and defend those people.
30:23And why did he not defend the girl?
30:26For a measure, those institutions of the United Nations are kidnapped by the conspirators
30:35at the hands of the West, under the orders of the U.S. Western Empire.
30:44All those institutions have been kidnapped and are being used as an instrument to support
30:53and protect the aggression against Venezuela.
30:58And they believe that a statement, a warning made by their media will stop the Venezuelan
31:06state in their fully legitimate exercise to defend itself.
31:13The Venezuelan state will defend itself.
31:17And in justice, it will demonstrate the truth of this conspiracy that will be once again
31:24dismantled and defeated.
31:28Thirty-eight mercenaries have been detained in the last hours.
31:33And Operation Tuntun, Diosdado, is active.
31:41And I call for all support from the Venezuelan people.
31:49You know the importance of the elections of this Sunday.
31:54They are going to be your governors, your regional governments.
31:58They are very close to you.
32:02It's your direct authority, and only you have the right to elect them.
32:06You know the importance that the National Assembly has for the stability of Venezuela,
32:11for the political stability, the cultural stability, the social and economic stability
32:16of our country, for the defense of national sovereignty.
32:20In your hands is to take the decision next Sunday.
32:28We, in our hands, is to guarantee the safety of our people through the Republic Plan,
32:35reinforce, activate and mobilize our people,
32:39is the one that is going to elect whoever the majority decides to choose.
32:46And that the majority decides to choose,
32:51there will be no human strength or supernatural strength to stop that that authority
32:58elected by the people takes office of their governance for the 24 states of the country.
33:0823 states plus one.
33:11Because it's going to be the first time, in the name of our liberator Simón Bolívar,
33:17of all our liberators, that Venezuela will elect
33:26its governors and government of the Guayana-Zequiva state,
33:31sovereign state of Venezuela, and it will choose the deputies of Guayana-Zequiva.
33:38All this in compliance with the mandate of the referendum on December of the year 2003,
33:49where the people decided, answering five questions, decided the path to the recovery,
33:56the legal recovery of the territory of Guayana-Zequiva.
34:00A territory that was born with Venezuela, free and independent.
34:09So, we are going to now do the meeting to continue fine-tuning details
34:19and that our people can feel tranquility and safety.
34:25Fifty-four political parties are taking part in this election, of all colors and forms.
34:33Candidates until, even if you don't say it, the international media, they silence this.
34:42They don't want it to be known.
34:44Despite your censorship, we will break your censorship.
34:48We will burst the teeth of your censorship.
34:51Medias and networks that block Venezuela, that hide the reality of the country,
35:02more than 6,500 candidates, any one of them can win.
35:09As the sun says, any one of us could triumph.
35:14That's what will happen next Sunday.
35:16Anyone can triumph.
35:20We have gone to the campaign with faith, with hope, with proposals, with respect.
35:30You have not seen any of our candidates insult anyone, threaten anyone.
35:36They have gone to the streets to look for the popular conscience.
35:41They have gone to the streets to look for the people's conscience.
35:45They have gone to the streets to interchange with the critics of the common men and women.
35:52They have gone to the streets to go home to home, millions of homes.
35:56And I've also seen candidates from different oppositions doing the same effort.
36:04Here and there, in the peoples, in the neighborhoods, in the streets, mobilizing with full guarantees.
36:12It's very difficult.
36:15After one sees the elections in Ecuador, for example,
36:21with dozens of assassinations,
36:29with a state of siege that was declared,
36:33with changing the polling stations 24 hours before the elections,
36:42with candidates that have military operations like the pro-government commandos to be able to do their political acts.
36:51After one sees an Ecuador as a failed state full of drug trafficking, violence, and death.
36:56After you see in other countries violent incidents,
37:02to be able to say from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
37:08that there has been a clean and without a single incident of any kind.
37:18Nothing has happened to any candidate.
37:22Nothing has happened to any candidate.
37:26That says a lot of the Venezuela that has been vilified by all those sellouts.
37:32It's a lot to say about a Venezuela that enjoys its right to peace.
37:37We must continue to enjoy our right to peace.
37:40We must continue to enjoy our tranquility.
37:43Last weekend was Mother's Day.
37:48And I was traveling from Russia.
37:51Receiving reports, records was broken of commercial transactions.
37:58But anyone could say, no, that stopped there.
38:01This weekend that passed, it was no longer Mother's Day.
38:06The record was broken again of commercial transactions that happened the weekend before.
38:14In supermarkets, in restaurants, in movie theaters.
38:17That's the right that we guarantee for our people.
38:20Full enjoyment of their right to happiness.
38:25Our struggle is for peace, is for happiness.
38:28And we have struggled so much.
38:30And we have obtained so many victories.
38:32And I'm certain that with this powerful team, we are going to May 25th.
38:38And beyond May 25th to another great victory of stability, peace, union and Venezuela
38:46will come out better and will be even better after this great victory.
38:52Everyone overpaying attention, on their toes.
38:56And active intelligence from the people.
38:59Patrol and capacity of reaction.
39:01Long live free Venezuela.
39:03Long live the peace of our homeland.
39:05Vote, vote, vote.
39:07Thank you very much.
39:09See you later.
39:11So I think this in itself is already a flag.
39:15I think so, right?
39:17And always in my photography too, I seek.
39:20It's not that I seek consciously, but I'm always portraying a positive side,
39:26a side of self-esteem, valuing self-esteem of people.
39:31Than misery, for example.
39:34Which is a reality that I have nothing against the photos that portray this more social issue.
39:40But it's a reality that I have nothing against.
39:43It's a reality that I have nothing against.
39:46It's a reality that I have nothing against.
39:49It's a reality that I have nothing against.
39:52What moves me the most?
39:54Children, for example, move me deeply.
39:56It's something that moves me a lot.
39:58Spontaneity.
40:00And I don't move much in the images.
40:03I don't move much in the scene.
40:05I almost never move, ask for something.
40:07Of course I respect that.
40:08But if I'm in a certain situation and the person doesn't want to be photographed, I don't photograph.
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