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Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro sent greetings to the different components that make up the Bolivarian National Armed Forces. teleSUR
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00:00Let's now go live to Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro is addressing the Bolivar National Armed Forces. Let's listen.
00:12Who was persecuted by Herodes. The boy, Jesus, Palestinian Jesus, was captured and delivered by the religious elite.
00:23Back then, he was tortured, humiliated, disappeared, and then he was crucified, the worst punishment of that time.
00:33But he quickly resurrected, and in that resurrection is where we are going, the resurrection of humanity.
00:42Jesus, Son of God, that came to speak about the freedom of the human being.
00:51The liberating Jesus, liberator from the oppression.
00:57Jesus, the redeemer of the peoples.
01:00Jesus that would never approve a war to steal the wealth to another people.
01:08I always say to my Christian brothers and Catholic brothers,
01:12could you imagine our Lord Jesus, if he were here with us, would he approve the bombing, the murder of children in Gaza?
01:24Would he approve military threats against a Christian people as the Venezuelan people is?
01:33Would he approve the use of force or the threat of use of force?
01:36There's nothing that goes more in opposition to Christ than this.
01:42To use the force as Goliath against the people of David, in this case against the people of Jesus, it is a crime.
01:53It is a crime. It is a crime to pretend to use threats, as Goliath did, against a peaceful country, but a warrior country, as the Venezuelan people are.
02:06It is a crime. So we trust in the original forces of Jesus Christ, the one that came out of the catacombs,
02:13the one who walked alongside the farmers, the humble carpenter that did everything with his own hands.
02:22Jesus that told the millionaires of that time to abandon everything and come with him and go with him to be safe.
02:29Jesus Christ has said in the Bible, a camel will go through the eye of a needle before a millionaire goes through the doors of heaven.
02:47Those are the words of the Lord, and we say amen to that.
02:51So I place my word as president in Christ, commander-in-chief, in perfect union and coherence, proud,
03:12of the Bolivar National Armed Forces, which is the united liberating army of the 21st century for its demonstrations in the year 2025.
03:30Its demonstrations of bravery, patriotism, and love for the people, and showing its capacity to fight,
03:38as we have seen in all the different exercises, independence 200.
03:44Venezuela has been threatened by Goliath for 27 weeks now.
03:51And in these 27 weeks, our military forces have been deployed with intelligence, wisdom, patience,
03:59and learning on the ground many things that we had studied before.
04:12And I believe that these 27 weeks have made us better.
04:18These 27 weeks have reached an important effort, valued in 26 years, when the Bolivarian Constitution created the concept of national security,
04:36the concept of territorial integrity, and created the concept of the doctrine for the defense of Venezuela.
04:43I believe that these 27 weeks have strengthened the effort of refoundation in the values of Bolivar, Zucora, Zamora,
04:57all started by our commander Chavez, and our armed forces today are more ready than ever to continue winning peace and sovereignty
05:08with territory integrity for our entire people.
05:12That's what I believe.
05:14We have witnessed this.
05:18No one has told me this.
05:21Officers are seen, listening to me.
05:27We are witnesses.
05:28No one has told us the story of passion and love when a Rapid Response Unit is deployed to defend the Amazonas,
05:42to defend the western region of the country, to defend the coast in the center and the western coast,
05:49and to defend the vast border with Colombia, that passion with which they survey the ground, that passion that they use when the troops are deployed,
06:04the reaction capabilities in minutes, that have been earned with the new schemes of action, that capacity of reaction to deploy,
06:22reconnaissance, more deployment, action capability and reaction capabilities, is all the same for the triumph of peace.
06:44We understand each other.
06:45We do not need to use too many words.
06:48We have codes to understand each other very quickly.
06:51So the Bolivar National Armed Forces in the year 2025, especially in these last 27 weeks,
06:58they have consolidated their character of being a united, liberating army of this 21st century.
07:06They have managed the greatest levels, and we have here with us officials, the graduation of 83, the graduation of 93.
07:27And they were telling us,
07:42in the basic school in the 88, 89.
07:47And then they went to a year in the basic school,
07:52and they thought that they were very positive, because in the end they all know each other,
08:01and they all take their path.
08:03And it's something that we must study.
08:06We must evaluate this, General.
08:08Headmaster of our military university,
08:12we have to go over a proposal, Padrino,
08:16a year of basic school,
08:18so that the vision is cohesive as an armed force, not as armed forces,
08:25and one single armed force, which is the concept.
08:28And then each takes their respective path in their academy,
08:33if you want to study in the army, the navy,
08:36aviation, national guard,
08:39or in the different academies.
08:42So we were speaking because they came here and they entered here this military academy of the Bolivarian Armed Forces in the year 89.
09:01We come from afar.
09:03Next year it will be 37 years.
09:08Delcy.
09:10You were a little girl then.
09:12You were in school.
09:16She's saying that she was already at the university.
09:22Walter was at school.
09:27In the year 1989.
09:37I'm also a young man.
09:40But we had to live the awakening of history.
09:44As a volcano, Venezuela erupted the homeland of the liberators,
09:52submitted to two centuries of betrayals,
09:57submitted to two centuries of plundering,
10:00turned into an oil colony of the United States.
10:07The homeland sprouted from the death as a volcano,
10:11and a volcano cannot be planned by anyone,
10:14and no one can control it.
10:17That February 27th and 28th was a volcano of restrained rage,
10:24of betrayals,
10:26that no one could ever have stopped it.
10:30Still today in our bodies,
10:32in our soul we feel it.
10:37The immense pain of the massacres were over 3,000 people.
10:43It is said that over 3,000 people were massacred.
10:47Most of them walking on a street, on an avenue,
10:55or sleeping at home.
10:59It was the first rebellion, popular rebellion,
11:06against the neoliberal model
11:09that wanted to be imposed following the fall of the Soviet Union,
11:20and the 37 years of that.
11:30Jose Alejandro, you were a small kid back then.
11:34Only nine years you were at school.
11:36In Mirabal neighborhood, a greeting to everyone in that neighborhood.
11:46And then came the volcanic reprisal
11:56that night, in February 1992,
12:01where the prophecy of Ali Primera was fulfilled.
12:06And once again he returned writing to cover the homeland,
12:12the original project of SimĂłn BolĂvar,
12:15at the hands of a young commander that told us that night.
12:19This is Commander Chávez speaking.
12:22I take full responsibility in the name of the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200,
12:28and that's where the Bolivarian Revolution was born.
12:32As a response
12:35to what was the insurrection awakening
12:39of a people in the face of domination
12:42and neocolonial policies.
12:44And then the history is known.
12:49I say this.
12:51I know that Commander Chávez also felt this.
12:57I don't remember if he said it before, but I will say it.
13:02That people that had no one who would defend them,
13:06that was massacred in the year 89,
13:09that February 4th knew that they had someone who was going to defend him.
13:15And it had to be from the military ranks
13:19that the immortal flag of SimĂłn BolĂvar rose again.
13:23The original anti-imperialist flag.
13:31The flag of rebellion.
13:33It had to be.
13:35And it was.
13:42So we are filled with history,
13:45and we must understand the strength that we have today,
13:48and we must understand it
13:49from the process that have accumulated of strength,
13:54that our people, in a brilliant way,
13:58have built.
14:03Because 2025,
14:06we can say truly, colleagues,
14:102025,
14:11it has been consolidated at the greatest level,
14:21the power of the nation.
14:24And that's the message I want to send.
14:27Today,
14:29a day of greetings for the end of the year.
14:352025,
14:36the power of the Venezuelan nation has been consolidated,
14:42not in a book,
14:45or in theory,
14:46or in a speech.
14:48It was consolidated on the ground.
14:51The people's power today expanded,
14:55and every day stronger and consolidated.
14:59Economic power today with 14 engines truly in full development.
15:03Social power every time with its great missions reaching to different areas.
15:13The spiritual power, cultural power of the national identity,
15:19Venezuelan identity today,
15:21is at the hands of every children that feel proud to feel to be Venezuelans,
15:34and they reject to be seen as a colony from the north.
15:38It's the most powerful power that a human being can have,
15:42the power of its mind, of its spirit, of its identity, of its culture, of the pride of being, of a people like Venezuela.
15:52The scientific and technological power is the scientific technological power that continues to evolve.
16:06We have a community of over 67,000 scientists of the first level.
16:14Also, they are scientists that like to party.
16:19You saw it in the dinner of December 24th, that everyone was dancing.
16:24The last to leave Miraflores were the scientists, which means they are people of creativity, solutions and joy.
16:34The power of national security, the quadrants of peace, the power of police,
16:42the intelligence and counterintelligence system of the police.
16:52And therefore, the main column of stability and union defense of the homeland,
17:00the military power of Venezuela, which has been tested and is there flourishing,
17:06moving forward and ready 24 hours of the day to guarantee the permanent triumph of the territorial integrity,
17:15of peace and sovereignty by historic and natural right and by international right as well.
17:23So, I believe, I was speaking with my wife, Celia, we were sharing all these criteria.
17:33And the consolidation of the national power and the Bolivarian National Armed Forces,
17:45the officers, soldiers, has to be even greater.
17:52I was going to say that they can do more, General Padrino, General Admiral, soldiers, officials, cadets.
18:06Can you do more?
18:10I say, you must do more.
18:12You must do more.
18:17In the framework of the constitution, the laws and the defense system of the territory.
18:27In the framework of the preparation and training for the task for a popular resistance prolonged and active.
18:35In the framework of the permanent offensive and the initiative in all the fields to create capacities for immediate deployment,
18:49reconnaissance, attack, deployment, and all the concepts that we have of the war of the entire people
18:56that we learned from Mao Zedong, Ezequiel Zamora, Waikar Puro, Ho Chi Minh, and the liberators of America.
19:03We have been publishing journals.
19:07You speak a lot of this topic.
19:09We must talk more.
19:10We must teach our people the military doctrine because it is not a military doctrine.
19:17Even though it's a military doctrine of the highest level in terms of strategy,
19:22of the highest level in terms of academics, it is a military doctrine for the people.
19:28Because the people is the one that has alongside its armed forces the responsibility to protect this country,
19:39to continue to be in peace, free, and independent, in the full use and enjoyment of their constitutional guarantees,
19:47in full use and enjoyment of their natural resources that are ours.
19:54And when I say ours, I mean the people of Venezuela.
19:57Because if I were a tycoon and I say ours, you will believe that it is the world for Maduro.
20:03But no, you know that I don't care for that.
20:06I'm like our Lord Jesus Christ.
20:08And I go alongside him, and I go alongside towards the victory of life with humility and with honesty.
20:21And I speak of the wealth of a country, of the wealth of a people, and the armed forces must do more.
20:28I know these are days of resting with families.
20:34These are days to share a good dinner, a good ayaka.
20:43But in between the family rest, the good dinner and the good ayaka, the good music,
20:50and other components that are important for this moment of festivity,
20:56you must always have in mind, and I ask this as a clear and key mission of these hours, these days, these weeks,
21:05that what can we do?
21:08What can we still do as Bolivarian national forces for our country, for our people, for the 14 engines of the economy?
21:17What more can we do for the development of public works, for the consolidation of the people's power?
21:23It's a lot what we can do.
21:27And we know that we can do it.
21:30So that's the second task.
21:33The first one is the consolidation of the national power.
21:37The second, to do more.
21:39We must be creative so that we also integrate even more.
21:50We must integrate, to a greater extent, this human professional capacity
21:56that has 200 years culture and academic, this capacity for coherence and discipline,
22:03this capacity for efficiency must be integrated to that deep society, to that deep Venezuela.
22:13Because he who is more integrated with the people in the neighborhoods, in the communities, in the communes, in those fields,
22:21the more integration there is as military, we are going to love them more, and we are going to defend them better,
22:31and more that people will love us as military, and more that people will defend us
22:36in any situation or circumstances that the homeland faces in its struggle for its destiny.
22:50Our destiny is our path, and our path is our destiny.
22:58Our path is Bolivar, Zamora, loyalty.
23:02And this is the third conclusion that I will share in these wars.
23:13And this year, the supreme loyalty of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces
23:24has been consolidated and reaffirmed towards the Bolivarian project
23:27and to its commander-in-chief, and to the great destiny of the homeland.
23:33Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty.
23:38That year, 2017, I never forget this, in the act of the army,
23:44when for the first time I saw the soldiers in a great formation with his rifles at hand, scream,
23:51loyal always, traitors never.
23:56And that cry, which came from the death of their heart,
24:01amidst Guarimbas of 2017,
24:05that cry became in strength, in will, in spirit.
24:12And it became a motto of an entire people.
24:23Today is the motto of the entire people.
24:27You only have to say loyal always.
24:31Even if you don't hear it, your brain tells us, tells you,
24:35traitors never.
24:37Bolivar, loyal always with you.
24:39Traitors never.
24:42Antonio José de Sucre, loyal always with you.
24:46Traitors never.
24:48My general of the sovereign people, Ezequiel Zamora,
24:52loyal always with you and your army.
24:54Traitors never.
24:56My general president, Cipriano Castro, loyal always with you,
25:01and traitors never.
25:03My general president, IsaĂas Medina, loyal always, traitors never.
25:07Traitors never.
25:08My supreme commander, eternal president of Rafael Chavez Fria,
25:12loyal always, traitors never.
25:15With the oath we make before you,
25:18and that we are fulfilling,
25:20fully,
25:22in a road towards victory 2025 and moving forward.
25:28So loyalty, at all moment, and in all tests, loyalty as a daily exercise of intelligence, wisdom, commitment with the humbles.
25:50Because we are here.
25:53I was not put here by a lobby.
25:56Or is that you have heard that I was here thanks to a lobby?
26:01Because maybe you know it and I don't know it.
26:03Have you heard military personnel that I'm here because of the oil lobby?
26:07Or any other lobby?
26:11Or no, the lobby of Miami put me here and pressures me.
26:16That's why we cannot be pressured, we cannot be blackmailed by anyone.
26:23We don't owe anything to anyone.
26:27We have a soul that is pure patriotism of Bolivarian spirit of the 21st century and beyond.
26:36And each of us knows the role that has to play.
26:39And there goes the fourth, that is a motto that I heard for the first time as a concept in Vladimir Padrino Lopez.
26:54Because we have been speaking about the military civic union, the first project of the year, the 90s, 98.
27:01And this civic military union, the flag of Commander Hugo Chavez at the Bolivarian Movement 200.
27:11Then at a point in the path in 2017, 2018, I began to speak about this union, the popular military police union.
27:23And then in this year, more than union is fusion.
27:28What is a fusion? A perfect union.
27:32Fusion, popular military police fusion.
27:38And 2025 has been the pragmatic demonstration of the political efficiency and the strength of the popular military police fusion.
27:47And when I say political efficiency is because the popular military police fusion faced and provided response to the threats and charges, provided response to the solutions alongside the people.
28:03That's why I always say, we have found the path. We have found the path. We must continue to walk on it. Because it's the path of history.
28:21That road was lost. There were whole generations that believed it to be impossible to retake that original path.
28:30There were great historians that abandoned research and left us in papers touched by the loss and defeat of the original path.
28:50As Commander Chavez used to say, that sword that turned 200 of being delivered to our liberator in Lima as liberator of Peru touched the glory of the heavens and then fell in the abyss of defeat and betrayal.
29:12That glorious sword was considered by many historians and by us, the youth of the 80s.
29:23We saw it as something far away. We saw it as something impossible.
29:28The resurrection of the original project.
29:30We saw it as something impossible, but the one that made it possible appeared and turned our people in an active participant of the great transformation.
29:48So we must have it always present with us.
29:52And in fifth place, the future.
29:55The future.
29:56What is the future?
29:57The future.
29:58What is the future?
29:59The future is you.
30:00Young man.
30:01How old are you?
30:02Where are you?
30:03Petare.
30:04In Mariche.
30:05Very good.
30:06I was over there in these days.
30:07What year are you in?
30:08Fourth year.
30:09So in July, I'm handing you your saber as an officer.
30:12Twenty-three years.
30:13Twenty-three years.
30:14Where did you study?
30:15In Carimao.
30:16We were there.
30:17There is a strong coming there, right?
30:18In Carimao.
30:19Right?
30:20Yeah.
30:21Very good.
30:22Very good.
30:23I was over there in these days.
30:24What year are you in?
30:25Fourth year.
30:26So in July, I'm handing you your saber as an officer.
30:29Twenty-three years.
30:30Where did you study?
30:31In Carimao.
30:32In Carimao.
30:33We were there.
30:34There is a strong coming there, right?
30:37In Carimao.
30:38We were there.
30:39There is a strong coming there.
30:41You have a face of a vice admiral.
30:46I will see you vice admiral of Petare.
30:51These are the young men of the neighborhoods.
30:59This is the generation.
31:01The great generation of Venezuela.
31:06The great military generation of Venezuela.
31:09The future, when there is a revolution, those are the dreams of the past made present, are
31:22the noble causes of the history made present, and you are the future cadet.
31:31The future is today, and if you are going to plan, the future has to have a planning guide.
31:46We have a plan, the plan of the seven transformations.
31:53Rodriguez, of his father, Jorge Rodriguez, and her mother, which is a revolutionary beast,
32:01Delce Lopez.
32:02I know her since I was a small boy.
32:06The mother, Adelce, greetings to her.
32:10I saw her making a jacket, very good ones.
32:13And the ones that Diosdado makes as well, they are very good.
32:16They are a bit spicy.
32:20Greetings to Marlene, Diosdado, and all the working team.
32:25A planning guide that we have.
32:31A team to direct the plan exists as well.
32:41So, 2026, officers and soldiers, 2026, I'll describe it in the framework of a new stage
32:58of transition towards socialism.
33:01I only have one R to it, and an A, because I qualified 2026 with the planning guide of
33:12the homeland plan of the 70s.
33:14I qualified 2026 as the year of the admirable challenge in Bolivar.
33:24The year of the challenge for the great leap.
33:37And we take on that challenge from our sworn heart, the admirable challenge in the spirit
33:48of the admirable campaign to terminate, to liberate our country of any remains of poverty that
33:59exists, to liberate our country of the dependency to oil, to liberate our people from the psychological
34:07warfare completely, building the defense that we have in the capacity that we have of thinking
34:15and action of our youth, to consolidate in our country the public education, free education,
34:22with great quality with the best schools and universities, to consolidate the new health system
34:30recovering completely all the health centers, to consolidate the people's power.
34:40It is an admirable challenge 2026, to consolidate the generals, listen to me very well, officers,
34:51to consolidate in our Bolivar National Armed Forces 2026, the capacity, the professional capacity,
34:59scientific, technical, and moral to have the armed forces at the standards for the integral
35:11defense of our homeland.
35:15Always vigilant and paying attention.
35:26And we still carry, and you still carry, wore the boots of, the uniformed boots.
35:35Armable Challenge 2026, Bolivar National Armed Forces, vigilant and always ready with your boots on to
35:45gift our country peace, prosperity, and blesses.
35:49Long live our Bolivar National Armed Forces.
35:52And I wish, in the name of God Almighty, with the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ,
35:58a happy new year, filled with family, joy, harmony, peace, that the military family deserves.
36:082026, admirable challenge, and it will be as well a victorious year.
36:13Thank you very much.
36:14Until victory is always, we shall triumph.
36:19Thank you very much.
36:20Palabras del Comandante.
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