Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Pinto makes an emotional tribute to the legacy of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, highlighting their strategic vision for Latin America and their role in the resistance against imperialism. He highlights the historical connection between Cuba and Venezuela, emphasizing that Fidel Castro “saw in the eyes of Venezuelan youth” the revolutionary future that would culminate with Chávez's rise to power.
00:00the battles to what Fidel Castro commended us and asked for these are the struggles that we
00:10are leading and that we are continuing to give to the future we have achieved a lot with his
00:20leadership with his solidarity to our eternal commander Hugo Chavez to whom we remember as
00:28well we cannot speak of Fidel without speaking of Chavez at the same time because together they
00:35built what no one thought was possible as we were saying when everyone had said the history was done
00:47and very early in his personal life we listened to Fidel especially in that decade at the end of the 80s
01:00the beginning of the 90s when the initiatives the patriotic and liberation initiatives were
01:12starting and we were starting to understand and also a dark veil was veiled and they were trying
01:22to impose this idea that the peoples had been defeated and that liberalism was the only victorious
01:30option and as we listened before there was only one voice in the world that was able even before this
01:42happened to warned on what was happening what was coming and how we should deal with that situation that
01:51without a doubt process led a process in Venezuela of our Bolivarian revolution yesterday president
02:03Nicolás Maduro narrated in the framework of the celebration his encounter his early encounter with
02:14commander Fidel Castro here in Caracas when we were just 20 days 25 days away from that event that
02:30that historical event and regretful as well of the Caracas February 27th 28th March 1st of 1989
02:45less than one month before of that Fidel was here in Venezuela and within the lies of the far right
02:56were the idea that Fidel had been here to mount and to contribute to that popular rebellion in our country
03:04that he had been here in order to lead to conspire for that rebellion with the popular movements
03:14that were part of that social explosion of the Caracas
03:20but what our president Nicolás Maduro was saying yesterday is that what Fidel saw in the eyes of the youth
03:33was what was coming for Venezuela he identified that he could perceive that in such a live way
03:41that was his great capacity extraordinary capacity that he had the commander in chief
03:50of being ahead of his time of the event and he saw even further down the road and he knew
04:01because we need to say it as well from very early on
04:12commander in chief Fidel Castro even before the Cuban revolution they knew of the role of Venezuela
04:21in this liberation process in Latin America because of its Bolivarian history because of its geopolitical
04:31position for its education and the great deeds that happened in parallel to the Cuban revolution in order to defeat the regime of Pere Jimenez
04:47that happened by revolutionary forces that were then betrayed by an elite
04:54an elite an elite that had been bought by Washington
05:01here is our comrade El Gallo from the Communist Party of Venezuela who was here
05:11he led the mobilization and the trade unions the student movement and farmers and agricultural movement that was in the 50s and that is why when the commander Fidel Castro came just days before
05:39yesterday our ambassador
05:42said when he came that was a revolution because this was a revolutionary Venezuela
05:51that then
05:53had the role and was assigned the role of countering the Cuban revolution but that was an artificial role because the Venezuelan people was always part of that Cuban revolution
06:0840 years later
06:1040 years later
06:14when Fidel came to Caracas he saw in the eyes of the youth in the eyes of those who now are leading this revolution person Nicolas Maduro he saw in those eyes what was coming for Venezuela
06:30but he also saw saw this in the rebellion of those young army men who in 92 as a consequence of that popular rebellion of 89 they raised in arms against that dictatorship against that regime that oppression regime
06:56sellout government that had been installed here against the will political will and spirit of the Venezuelan people
07:10and we need to say this in the continent
07:17only in Venezuela we understood how that military force was really a force that was very much near the people
07:33and the friends of the Latin American left they had doubts and they hesitated because of the past of the military actions and dictatorships in the south specifically they doubted
07:53commander Chavez and that military youth but once again the commander Fidel he didn't hesitate for a second
08:00president Maduro always asked said that one asked what did Fidel say what did Fidel think in Venezuela we always thought what would Fidel think
08:15and in that moment Fidel traced the road and he saw in that movement that was being born in the military youth he was able to see and know what was coming and know what commander Chavez meant and to move forward in a direction
08:42that is why he received him just in the moment that he came out of prison in 1994 in an extraordinary manner he appeared there right outside the plane and he received commander Chavez in that historical visit to Cuba that marked
