President Nicolas Maduro: "There are still those who seek to impose supremacism and view us from afar, as in the era of colonization"

Press conference by the President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, with internationally accredited media in the country.

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00:00And also, Venezuela has a great historical history on its pre-independent struggles.

00:10Manuel Gual, Jose Maria España, many names.

00:16For real, the documents that they wrote, the flags they made, the struggles they led on those years with Simón Rodriguez,

00:28the Robinson of America, those were left forever.

00:33Those documents are very advanced, even more than those from the 20th or 21st century.

00:42They're calling to the building of a sovereign independent state where you would have, in first place, equality.

00:51That was the base, equality, and on that, building the civil life.

01:00That was at the end of the 18th century.

01:03That was very advanced at that moment.

01:06As in the 21st century still, there are people carrying out the complete opposite,

01:12trying to impose supremacisms and the world of the white and the wealthy.

01:22Just as in the times of Hitler, they still want to impose those supremacisms,

01:28and they want to see us from far away,

01:31just as in the invasion times from Europe and the forced colonization.

01:39In the 21st century still, there are people carrying out the