00:00Now we welcome Jose Luis Rodriguez, director of Conce Comercio.
00:14Well, good afternoon.
00:16Good afternoon, Governor.
00:18Mr. Diosdado Cabello, welcome to Trujillo State.
00:25When we were invited to come here, we were told about the pilgrimage.
00:30And that word of pilgrim is a word that we listened a lot.
00:34When John Paul II came, that a young musician sang a beautiful song
00:41that talked about those mountains, that a person was coming from those mountains
00:47with a message of peace and joy.
00:49That was John Paul II.
00:53That connotation of pilgrim we always associated with a person
00:56that goes to a place where a saint was born,
01:02a state where a monument was erected, a religious monument.
01:06But today, it has another meaning.
01:10Today, it means faith, of course.
01:12It means the arrival here to our symbols,
01:16as it is the monument to peace.
01:19It's a beautiful mobilization where no one is here by force, truly.
01:23We are here because we are convinced that we want a change for our country.
01:28We are convinced that we want a transformation for the country.
01:36When we talk about the pilgrimage, and we talk about sanctions,
01:42we reflect a bit about the monument that we have here in our backs,
01:46which is very beautiful, the Virgin of Peace.
01:48Well, so that you know that the Virgin of Peace is the tallest monument in America.
01:55We are also winning there to all in America, as we did in baseball.
02:00We have 46 meters, and they have 46 meters higher.
02:06We are even higher than the Christ of the Redeemer.
02:09But from here, from these hills,
02:13we would like to send a message to the United States.
02:17I want to tell them that we are a people of peace.
02:22And that sanctions have not worked for anything,
02:26only to repress a people, to bring misery to a people.
02:30And I refer, for example, to teachers,
02:32because my mother is a teacher.
02:35And it turns out my mother came from Calimbo,
02:37and she graduated as a nurse, and then she continued working,
02:40and she graduated as a professor at the university with a lot of effort.
02:47And after that, it turns out her salary disappeared.
02:52The same happened with doctors,
02:54like eight millions of us of workers,
02:59public officials that don't have a real income.
03:03We need that the purchasing power of the people be recovered,
03:06because the purchasing power of the people will make it possible
03:12that we have purchasing power.
03:15And when we have a purchasing power,
03:16our companies will increase,
03:18our industries will open,
03:20we'll have more work.
03:23So there is no reason to have sanctions.
03:26So we responsibly ask that those sanctions are lifted
03:31so that our country continue to shine,
03:36like in the 70s,
03:38when we were one of the biggest countries in progress in Latin America.
03:42We're going to return to that progress,
03:44and all of us here, we're going to see that progress.
03:49We have to finish talking about peace.
03:54And I say this honestly.
03:56Peace is a concept a bit complicated
03:59that we must take with a lot of seriousness,
04:02because we cannot make peace by signing agreements.
04:07We do not make peace meeting,
04:09gathering a group of people,
04:11and signing great treaties,
04:13because if we don't see,
04:15some people say there's peace,
04:17and there's some other people bumping.
04:18So there is no peace.
04:19Peace truly comes from my personal criteria.
04:23Peace comes from the heart.
04:26When we have peace,
04:28then there's peace in our homes.
04:31So our marriage is a nest of love.
04:35So we have peace in our building.
04:40So the building we live in
04:42is a peace and progress.
04:45Of course,
04:46what refer to the state,
04:48what refer to the country.
04:49So we need first to change ourselves.
04:56By doing this change,
04:57we can trigger the peace outside.
04:59That's my message to all of you.
05:01Thank you very much.
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