In Venezuela, the national Council for Sovereignty and Peace continues to gain support. Cultural workers, artists, and intellectuals have come together to show that culture is also one of the country's most powerful weapons. Our correspondent Andrea Romero tells us more. teleSUR
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00:00In Venezuela, the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace continues to gain support.
00:05Cultural workers, artists, and intellectuals have come together to show that culture is also one of the country's most powerful weapons.
00:13Our correspondent, Andrea Romero, tells us more.
00:16At a meeting to join the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace, intellectuals, cultural workers, and artists from around the country
00:25have reaffirmed their fundamental role in building peace from the strength of Venezuelan cultural diversity, in the face of external threats.
00:36A people without culture does not exist.
00:38That is why culture is the foundation and identity of peoples, and the culture of this country, is threatened not just now.
00:44With the United States Empire, but also by the British Empire and the Spanish Empire, which were the first to occupy these territories.
01:00The origin and foundation of national identity are inseparable.
01:06Those present agree that defending the nation requires valuing and celebrating its roots.
01:10We have our roots, it is very rich.
01:16We have African descendants, we have Spaniards, we have indigenous people, and we have a rich and varied Venezuelan tradition.
01:22And well, it is colorful, what more than colorful.
01:25Defending our country with our dances, our music, with our cultural expressions,
01:29which is the wonderful thing we have for the national defense of our country, Venezuela.
01:32The cultural scene has a lot to say at this moment, in this context, not only because of the call, but because we artists, even when we are in an orchestra.
01:57Many of us don't think the same way, but the musical discourse in the case of music will always sound beautiful because there is a baton,
02:04so that baton is the social context, the social agreement that gives us a wonderful constitution that we have here.
02:10Everyone is called, everyone is welcome, everyone has space even to build the homeland.
02:14In the formation of that awareness, reading and critical thinking become vital.
02:23We believe that our fundamental contribution to the defense of Venezuela's sovereignty and peace comes through the tool of reading,
02:31to expand awareness, to open political debate, to promote critical and decolonial thinking,
02:36which is so important for one to learn and understand, and thus be able to defend and fight.
02:40Because what we do not know, we cannot defend.
02:46Then books in this case are part of and constitute a fundamental tool for the defense of sovereignty and peace.
02:54The combination of identity, tradition, and knowledge, results in a call to action.
03:02For cultural activist Judith Valencia, defending the territory and history requires constant preparation.
03:07We have to defend our territory, we have to defend our history, we have to defend our constituent process,
03:16which is an insurgent process in these times.
03:18We must want peace, but to have peace we must prepare for war, not the war of bombing, but the war of culture.
03:28Con convinced that sovereignty is a cultural act, these intellectuals and cultural figures have sealed their commitment
03:40to the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace.
03:42The cultural movement joins the other active forces in the country in defending its right to self-determination and to live in peace.
03:49From Caracas, in the Cámara of José Luis Briceño, para Telesur, Andrea Romero.
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