Padrino Lopez: today we are defending our truth

Venezuela's Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, delivers statements. teleSUR

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00:00And today we see how the world is struggling in attacks to try to maintain Western hegemony.

00:21We see a United States that is challenging, that is challenging China in the Pacific.

00:27We see how the collective West wants to create a third party war in Russia.

00:34We see the genocide in Gaza.

00:37How many children and women, how many hospitals and mosques and men, how many people killed

00:45thousands and thousands and they were all in silence.

00:53There is a deep rejection, yes.

00:57There is a deep rejection in the hearts of the peoples of the world against these atrocities.

01:05And we see here how in Venezuela they are trying to solve a conflict in Latin America.

01:14Venezuela is part of Latin America.

01:18So we must be aware of what is happening in the world and we cannot allow.

01:24We must stand and resist.

01:26Humanity must stand and resist before fascism, before neo-Nazism and fight for a world of equilibrium.

01:41Bolivar used to say that truth, truth and justice do not need any other support than from itself

01:58to be presented.

02:00That's what he would say to Mr. Ebert in the 1800s.

02:04Truth and justice, they do need any support but from themselves to present themselves.

02:10When we speak of these conflicts, we can say that the first victim is truth.

02:22That's why we are here defending our truth.

02:28One single truth.