00:00Welcome back to From the South.
00:02The Venezuelan people's support for their president, Nicolás Maduro, and First Lady Celia Flores,
00:07as well as the rejection of the U.S. violation of the nation's sovereignty,
00:10came right after the outrageous attack.
00:13To tell us more about the response, our correspondent Paola Dragnik
00:16with the fourth chapter of her series, The Signal of Victory.
00:30Cientos de drones sobrevolaron Caracas, iluminando el horizonte.
00:38Hundreds of drones flew over Caracas, lighting up the horizon as if in a ritual
00:43to heal those guys violated by imperial missiles.
00:47This time, they were lights of peace, marking the unmistakable path of Bolivarian loyalty.
00:55Han transcurrido ya varias semanas desde el secuestro.
00:59Several weeks have passed since the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Celia Flores,
01:04and Venezuela is calm.
01:05There's no doubt about it.
01:07We are asking the Venezuelan people,
01:10according to you, who is the president of Venezuela today?
01:13Nicolás Maduro, of course, he was voted in.
01:16There's no other.
01:20There is no other.
01:22Another thing is that there is a special situation
01:25due to the outrageous foreign invasion by the gringos,
01:28and based on our laws and constitution,
01:31our vice president, our comrade,
01:32Delsi RodrĂguez, is tasked with the presidency,
01:36but only with an interim and provisional status.
01:39Who is the president of Venezuela today?
01:41Nicolás Maduro.
01:42Nicolás Maduro Moro.
01:45Maduro.
01:46Maduro, porque yo voté por él,
01:48and I believe in my president.
01:56Look, Mr. Trump,
01:57I'm going to tell you one thing.
01:59With all due respect,
02:00because you're an elderly person,
02:02you shouldn't have done the atrocity you did,
02:04because there are other means and issues.
02:06If you want oil and diamonds,
02:13there's something called diplomacy that comes first.
02:16Good afternoon.
02:17Bye.
02:17Give us back Maduro.
02:18What then is an empire looking for when it kidnaps
02:27or disappears a ruler legitimately elected by his people?
02:31One of the answers fly away,
02:34as the dictator Augusto Pinochet himself said
02:36on that fateful September 11, 1973, in Chile.
02:40To instill terror and dismantle all resistance.
03:01But the empire also needs a cowardly and treacherous army,
03:05one capable of turning its weapons against its own people.
03:08In Chile, that army also massacred the people.
03:12But in Venezuela, it marches alongside them.
03:15That is BolĂvar's doctrine.
03:18When he was kidnapped,
03:19they thought the people would surrender
03:21and take refugees in their homes.
03:23But the opposite happened.
03:25The people have taken to the streets to continue fighting.
03:31Rain or shine, it doesn't matter.
03:33Being in the streets was vital,
03:35and Diosdado Cabello knows it very well.
03:38Here, in 2002, as vice president of the nation,
03:45he quickly took command of the country
03:47in the face of Hugo Chávez's kidnapping.
03:50The rule of law had to prevail,
03:52while the people remained in the streets.
03:55Acting president of Venezuela?
04:01Yes, I swear.
04:03Just like today,
04:05Delcy Rodriguez did as acting president.
04:08Let's not be confused.
04:10We are the ones governing here.
04:12And yes, of course,
04:14we are talking with the captors.
04:16And yes, of course,
04:17we are selling oil.
04:19And we will sell it
04:20because it is our oil.
04:21It is not that difficult to understand,
04:33despite the narrative chaos
04:35that they have strategically tried to impose.
04:39Long live our people.
04:43Long live our rebel homeland.
04:45Venezuela, two totally opposing projects
04:51are facing off.
04:52Either the return to a Yankee protectorate
04:55that steals the oil
04:56and destroys the national and popular culture,
04:59or sovereign and independent nation
05:00that manages its own resources
05:02and organizes itself into communes
05:05and all neighborhoods.
05:06Nicolás is here with his people.
05:10He's in every heart,
05:11in every place,
05:12in every task,
05:13in every community council
05:14and in every commune.
05:15That's why we say to him from Venezuela
05:17that we will continue working.
05:19Nicolás, communes are nothing.
05:21No es un arrebato de populismo.
05:24This is not a burst of populism.
05:26It is a longstanding political construction
05:28as old as the history of Venezuela itself,
05:31because sovereignty is a fundamental desire
05:34of this country.
05:38This has not fallen apart
05:40because we have values,
05:41all the values that Commander Chávez
05:42instilled in us.
05:47Values of love, friendship
05:48and thinking about others.
05:50There are so many things.
05:51I started with the missions
05:52and today I'm someone
05:53because of my Commander Chávez.
05:56I have so much to thank
05:58both Chávez and my Commander today,
06:00Nicolás Maduro, for.
06:02And today I defend this
06:03with everything I have,
06:04even with my nail.
06:07The death of Hugo Chávez
06:09was perhaps the hardest blow to date.
06:14And there,
06:15in the midst of that immense pain,
06:17listen to what this young man
06:18was already saying
06:19more than a decade ago.
06:21We have been preparing for 14 years
06:27for what is to come
06:29because the president
06:30told us that we have to be vigilant
06:32in case they want to come
06:34after our oil.
06:38And they came for it
06:40in the most brutal way.
06:41Venezuela is the victim of these attacks
06:53because of its natural resources.
06:56Oil, energy, strategic resources
06:58and our country's geopolitical position
07:00have historically been
07:02factors of greed
07:03and external pressure.
07:06When force is used
07:06to control resources,
07:08impose governments
07:09or redesign states,
07:11we are faced with a logic
07:13that harks back
07:14to the worst practices
07:15of colonialism
07:16and neo-colonialism.
07:21Despite the blockade
07:26and siege,
07:26Venezuela achieved
07:27an economic recovery
07:28that unleashed
07:29the imperial wrath.
07:31There is no doubt
07:32that the socialist project
07:33promoted by Hugo Chávez
07:35has continued.
07:40Because if there is anyone
07:42who had a clear vision
07:43of the people as a category,
07:45as a social category,
07:46as a cultural category,
07:47as an anthropological category,
07:49as a political category,
07:50it's Nicolás.
07:52That is why the people today
07:57write letters to him
07:58in Plaza BolĂvar in Caracas
08:00with a political clarity
08:01that after so much
08:03is simply breathtaking.
08:05They have now been able
08:05to defeat us
08:06through hunger,
08:07sanctions,
08:08blockades,
08:09media warfare,
08:10dirty wars,
08:10cognitive wars.
08:11They have used
08:12all the recipes
08:13of the CIA
08:13and the Pentagon manuals.
08:15They have now been able
08:16to defeat
08:16the Bolivarian revolution
08:17and now
08:18the Bolivarian revolution
08:19is growing even more.
08:20They have not been able to
08:22and will not be able
08:23to break the Bolivarian revolution.
08:24Long live the homeland.
08:25They have tried everything.
08:32The first media coup in history
08:34was against Ugachares.
08:35On that occasion,
08:36none other than the head
08:40of the business community
08:41tried to be president.
08:44He wasn't the only one.
08:46There were paid protests,
08:48failed assassination attempts,
08:49forced migration,
08:50currency hijacking,
08:54and the broken record
08:56of fraud
08:56that repeats itself
08:57and no one believes anymore.
08:59How can we forget
09:00the histrionic street
09:02swearing in
09:03of Juan GuaidĂł,
09:04now repudiated by all,
09:06or the decadent heroine
09:08in white,
09:08always on the verge
09:10of a nervous breakdown?
09:11with nerves of steel,
09:15the Venezuelan people
09:16move forward.
09:22Here's our people
09:23with president Nicolás Maduro
09:25and neither Maria Corina
09:26nor Armundo González
09:27will come to Venezuela
09:28and if they do,
09:29people themselves
09:30will kick them out.
09:32Nicolás Maduro is still present
09:34because he embodies
09:35a project that,
09:37as with Hugo Chávez,
09:38simply transcends him.
09:41Long live our homeland.
09:43La ruta está marcada.
09:45The path is already set.
09:47The seven transformations
09:48of the homeland plan,
09:50the popular councils,
09:52the communal government.
09:53Delce RodrĂguez lidera
09:54un equipo como presidenta
09:56encargada
09:57de ese proyecto socialista
09:59que supr...
09:59As acting president,
10:00Delce RodrĂguez
10:01leads a team
10:02to carry out
10:03a socialist project
10:04that her own father
10:05longed for,
10:06sacrificing his life
10:07in the dungeons
10:08of the fourth republic
10:10that tortured him
10:11to his physical death.
10:13Presa opens the door
10:15to her apartment
10:16with pride.
10:17She built it
10:18with her own hands
10:19in this housing complex
10:20that is indeed named
10:22Jorge RodrĂguez's father.
10:23Nunca en mi casa
10:24de muchachas
10:25acarriĂł un bloc,
10:27un cemento,
10:29una arena
10:29porque eso era para hombres.
10:30When I was a girl
10:31I never worked
10:32with blocks
10:32or cement
10:33or sand
10:34in my house.
10:34That was a man's work,
10:35not a woman's.
10:36But here my comrades
10:37and I have learned
10:38and worked hard
10:39to have today
10:40our own apartments.
10:41That's the Bolivarian revolution.
10:49That's the people's power
10:51that every Venezuelan today
10:55is grateful for
10:56in those letters
10:57to BolĂvar, Chávez
10:58or Maduro.
10:59And to our acting president
11:06Delcy Rodriguez
11:06we offer our support
11:09as women,
11:10as patriotic women,
11:11as she said
11:12in her speech
11:13with your head held high,
11:15with your dignity,
11:17we will defend him
11:18even if we had
11:19to go to Washington.
11:21Porque en ese juramento,
11:24como en los anteriores,
11:26no solo...
11:26Because in that oath,
11:28as in the previous ones,
11:29it was not only
11:30Delcy Rodriguez
11:31who took the oath,
11:32the sovereign people
11:33of Venezuela
11:34also did.
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