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In Venezuela, the Great Pilgrimage for Peace and against the sanctions on the country has reached Trujillo State, where citizens have joined the movement. teleSUR
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00:11We are going live to Venezuela as the national great pilgrimage continues through different
00:16states of the nation. Let's listen to, let's see if we can listen to the statements what
00:23is happening right now in Trujillo.
00:46Well, this national pilgrimage for a Venezuela without sanction and in pieces, an initiative
00:53launched by the acting President of the Republic, Delsis Rodriguez, aimed at uniting political
00:59social and religious sectors in a massive outcry against the unilateral coercive measures
01:05affecting the national economy. Let's listen to the statements. Where institutionality prevails,
01:19adapting to the new economic model. When we call for a Venezuela without sanctions, we are not
01:25only doing it from a political posture, but we are also doing it from an existing necessity.
01:33Production apparatus, as well as the peace that today we call on, is what we must carry on,
01:39a peaceful, a productive peace, a productive peace that allows to have normal ties with
01:46the world. To reinsert Venezuela in the financial flows of the world so that credit, once again,
01:55is a tool for growth for the medium and small companies. From the mountains of Trujillo, we
02:01sent a clear message to the center of the country. We are ready for companies and to be the engine
02:08of recovery. That's why demand the end of distortion that foreign external pressure make. We have the capacity
02:18to generate wealth as long as we are allowed to reinsert in the economic flow from which we
02:25have been deprived of. Trujillo comes with a great agricultural production. It is the moment where private
02:34investment retakes protagonism and gives true value to the products and be able to compete with the
02:42national and international markets in equal and better conditions. Authorities, the peace that we
02:50search for is the peace of hard work. It's a peace that the state grants the private company that builds
02:59business and continues to work. A Venezuela without sanctions is a Venezuela where youth doesn't
03:06have to migrate. Because here in Venezuela, there are companies where you can have job
03:12opportunities. For a prosperous Trujillo and a Venezuela free of sanctions. Thank you very much.
03:20Good afternoon. We welcome the words of Rodrigo Vazquez. We welcome now Dr. Francisco Montilla,
03:41a representative representative of the opposition factions. Greetings friends. Thank Gerardo and
03:57Carlos Hill and Captain Sergio. In representation of opposition parties of Trujillo State, for me
04:07this is something great. To care for peace is the main way to work for our descendants. I'm a doctor.
04:22A doctor does
04:23not see a political color. Doctor cares in the moment of the sickness to the person that comes to the
04:33hospital.
04:37We try to prevent death because peace in health, as the priest was saying, is the development of Jesus Christ
04:47in humanity. We are one. We are Trujillo. We have the opportunity to make our state great in the development,
04:57in health and education, in the prosperous development of commerce, in agriculture.
05:07And like this Venezuela. And like this Venezuela will be rid of all ties that brings vulnerability to the Venezuelan
05:16people. Our presence here in any part of the state is welcome by all of you. I did not compete
05:27with Gerardo Marquez for the governance. I never used a
05:32one. A new word against him. A new word against him. He won. I lost. But here we are together
05:40for the development of Trujillo.
05:50And it's our will that we are here in the name of Jesus Christ, in the name of Virgin Mary,
05:56in the name of all Venezuelans and all the people of Trujillo. For me, it's an honor once again to
06:02say,
06:02Josado Cabello, here in Trujillo, you are welcome. You can count with us for the development of Venezuela for the
06:13development of Trujillo. Thank you very much for your presence. See you later.
06:22We welcome the words of Dr. Francisco for talking in the presentation of the opposition. Now we welcome Jose Luis
06:31Rodriguez, director of Conce Comercio.
06:42Well, good afternoon. Good afternoon, governor. Mr. Diego Cabello, welcome to Trujillo State. When we were invited to come here,
06:57we were told about the pilgrimage.
06:59And that word of pilgrim is a word that we listened a lot. When John Paul II came, that a
07:08young musician sang a beautiful song that talked about those mountains, that a person was coming from those mountains with
07:17a message of peace and joy. That was John Paul II.
07:20Second, that connotation of pogrom, we always associated with a person that goes to a place where a saint was
07:31born, a state where a monument was erected, a religious monument. But today, it has another meaning.
07:40Today, it means faith, of course. It means the arrival here to our symbols, as it is the monument to
07:48peace. It's a beautiful mobilization where no one is here by force, truly.
07:53We are here because we are convinced that we want a change for a country. We are convinced that we
08:00want a transformation for the country.
08:06When we talk about the pilgrimage and we talk about sanctions, we reflect a bit about the monument that we
08:14have here in our backs, which is very beautiful, the Virgin of Peace.
08:18Well, so that you know that the Virgin of Peace is the tallest monument in America. We are also winning
08:26there to all in America as we did in baseball. We have 46 meters and they have 46 higher.
08:36We are even higher than the Christ the Redeemer. But from here, from these hills, we would like to send
08:45a message to the United States.
08:47I want to tell them that we are a people of peace and that sanctions have not worked for anything,
08:56only to repress a people, to bring misery to a people.
09:00And I refer, for example, to teachers because my mother is a teacher and it turns out my mother came
09:06from Calimbo and she graduated as a nurse and then she continued working and she graduated as a professor at
09:14the university with a lot of effort.
09:17And after that, it turns out her salary disappeared. The same happened with doctors, like eight millions of us of
09:26workers, public officials that don't have a real income.
09:33We need that the purchasing power of the people be recovered because the purchasing power of the people will make
09:41it possible that we have purchasing power and when we have a purchasing power, our companies will increase, our industries
09:49will open, we'll have more work.
09:53So there is no reason to have sanctions. So we responsibly ask that those sanctions are lifted so that our
10:02country continue to shine like in the 70s when we were one of the biggest countries in progress in Latin
10:12America.
10:12And we're going to return to that progress. And all of us here, we're going to see that progress.
10:19We have to finish talking about peace. And I say this honestly, peace is a concept a bit complicated that
10:29we must take with a lot of seriousness because we cannot make peace by signing agreements.
10:36We do not make peace. We do not make peace, meeting, gathering a group of people and sign great treaties
10:42because if we don't see, some people say there's peace and there's some other people bumping.
10:48So there is no peace. Peace truly comes from my personal criteria. Peace comes from the heart.
10:55But when we have peace, then there's peace in our homes. So our marriage is a nest of love. So
11:06we have peace in our building.
11:10So the building we live in is peace and progress. Of course, what we refer to the state, what we
11:18refer to the country. So we need first to change ourselves.
11:25We must, by doing this change, we can trigger the peace outside. That's my message to all of you. Thank
11:31you very much.
11:39The message to space is what brings us here.
11:42The message to space is what brings us here.
11:43The message to space is what brings us here.
11:49Good afternoon for all. Good afternoon for the people that is in this side of the platform.
11:59Today, I want to welcome the Vice President of Security and Peace of the Nation,
12:09Comrade Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Comrade Diosdado Cabello, and all of his team.
12:17I want to welcome him as well. And also the Minister Luis Villegas and the deputies that today accompany the
12:24members of the national,
12:27of the national governments, for this pilgrimage, for the end of Sanchez, for the end of Sanchez, for Venezuela and
12:33for peace to be installed.
12:34We have lived very important moments, and peace is fundamental for progress.
12:41We have been doing an effort with our acting president, Delsi Rodriguez.
12:46Yes, she's doing an inhumane effort for the nation to remain at peace and the path of progress.
12:56So this pilgrimage that is going to end on April 29th in Caracas, on April 30th, my pardon, is a
13:03blessing for the nation.
13:05So I want to leave you with our comrade, a fundamental son of this revolution, a son of Chavez.
13:13I want to leave you with the Comrade Diosdado Cabello RondĂłn. Welcome to the Trujillo State, land of peace, of
13:24progress, of willingness, and of many working people.
13:29Welcome, Comrade Diosdado Cabello. Thank you, Brother Gerardo. Thank you.
13:36Greetings to all here present, to the people of Trujillo, to those who are present here.
13:42It is raining a little bit. It's pouring, but what is that for us?
13:47We are here in this beautiful monument for peace. Here we were.
13:55Maria Leon, remember me, that in 2015 we were here. In 2015 we were in the National Assembly.
14:03And at that moment we made a special session of the National Assembly here in this monument.
14:09And then we came after that to a certain process of brother Gerardo Márquez.
14:16And we know the importance that this monument for peace has for Trujillo people.
14:21We have discussed this many times. Maria knows this from the national direction of the party.
14:27And also, Governor, I said, we need to do, and I said to Pedro Carreño as well, we are going
14:37to perform a march until the peak for the monument of peace.
14:43We are going to show to the world that Venezuela is a land of peace, a land of work.
14:49And also before this event took place, and I was with this huge man, and I said to him, let's
14:58make the march towards here.
15:00And we did it halfway, and 800 meters, that was the path that we walked, only 800 meters.
15:14This is a national pilgrimage in which we have invited all of the sectors of the nation that those who
15:22are left behind are those who really want to be left behind.
15:25If you are left behind, well, join us, because what we are trying to do is sending a message to
15:32the world that Venezuela demands the end of sanctions over the national territory, over this homeland, for the blockade to
15:40end.
15:41And that for all unilateral coercive sanctions imposed on our country be lifted, and let Venezuela fly free, as always
15:55has done.
15:56And who must lead that flight? Well, the Venezuelan people.
16:00This is the people that knows how to work, that knows how to have patience.
16:06This is a people of an extraordinary wisdom, and the people and the state of Trujillo has as the slogan,
16:14the land of wisdom and saints.
16:17Here we are, and also of peace, also of peace, land of saints and of wise men and women, and
16:27also land of peace.
16:28For us, for us to come here to be a state, fills us with emotions, because we are convinced, truly
16:37convinced that here in Venezuela, the great majority of Venezuelans, the great majority of Venezuelans want to live at peace.
16:48And that includes businessmen, and that includes businessmen and women, students, mothers of families, and military persons from the religious
16:58sector as well, Catholics, and all of the unions and social sectors, those who are making a constant call against
17:07violence.
17:07And also those who are calling for the end of the internal order, are truly looking an old fashioned movie.
17:18These people and this country wants to move forward, wants to move forward, and we are going to do so
17:24united, working together.
17:27Whether the businessmen and women is going to produce in their enterprises, pastors in the churches are going to speak
17:34to their people, students are going to keep studying, professionals are going to keep working.
17:40And we were very early today, in a plant of meat production.
17:51There was nothing in 2023, there was nothing.
17:56There was the Economy Council in MĂ©rida, here our Minister of Industries are here present, she is from Trujillo, Luis
18:05Villegas.
18:08And there was that activity in MĂ©rida, and we requested a credit, and we presented a project and requested a
18:18credit as well.
18:19Today, life gave us the honor of being there in that plant to begin formally its production.
18:25A meat, sausage production plant that has several pieces of varieties of sausages and what it means that kind of
18:36food there in 2023 there was nothing.
18:40That's the value of a people who says, I'm going to invest, I'm going to take risks because I believe
18:45in my country, I believe in my country.
18:47That was in the middle of sanctions, that was in the middle of an economic blockade, and we can say
18:53in the post-pandemic era that it was even worse.
18:57And these people move forward.
18:59Now, let's close our eyes and let's imagine Venezuela without sanctions and without blockade, we would be a rocket that
19:07is going to be launched directly to the moon of work, of stability, of prosperity, of peace.
19:16And when we speak, that is very necessary.
19:27Well, he's steady, he's steady and still.
19:35Well, look, when we say, look, when we say, because this is a national matter, the topic of the country
19:48is a matter of the whole nation.
19:50The agricultural aspect is not, it concerns not only to farmers, it concerns to the whole nation.
19:59This is a concern of everyone.
20:02When we speak, if we want the incomes to be recovered of the Venezuelan people, if we want the incomes,
20:10that is one of the main tasks of the nation.
20:13And what can we do so if the sanctions are lifted?
20:16It is very difficult that someone that earned $100 at home, that began to do the same thing with just
20:24$1, not for one month, not two, not three, not one year.
20:31Since when are we in the middle of this situation? Since when?
20:37That you could make plans and at the end nothing was done because resources were not coming, not entering at
20:46the households.
20:47This is the perverse actions with currencies that made inflation disappear the incomes.
20:56Well, we have to move forward this country. No one is going to do so for us.
21:01And when we invite all Venezuelans, women and men, it's because to join forces, you could be from any political
21:10party as you wish.
21:12You could be the religious you want. You could even do not believe in anything. You could be whatever you
21:20want.
21:21But you must love the country in which you were born. And if you love this country, we invite you
21:28to work.
21:28Because these sanctions, it is good to remember this, these sanctions were not coming from anywhere.
21:42There were Venezuelans who traveled the world demanding sanctions against their nation, for the nation to be asphyxiated because they
21:52believed that they were going to starve this country.
21:55And today they are remaining asking for sanctions. And I think that in first instance, what we have to do
22:02is to isolate haters.
22:05The haters, we have to put them very far away from us. Stay with your hatred, but leave these people
22:13alone working at peace.
22:16Let these people move forward. Let these people move forward. And when the elections come, well, the people let them
22:25vote for whoever they want.
22:26We are not asking for anything. That is not how things work. Haters, let them be there, far away from
22:34us.
22:35Well, a few days ago we saw a very repudiating action from extreme sectors in Spain because they refer to
22:44Delsi, but it is not against Delsi.
22:47This is an outrageous action against the Venezuelan women. When they said, with so much shamelessness, they said, out to
23:02the monkey.
23:03And they were so happy. And Maria made me remember of those who were at the Ayacucho Salon on April
23:1411th when, on behalf of their freedom,
23:17they were eliminating the constitution, eliminating the assembly, eliminating the powers of the state.
23:23On behalf of their liberty, they went after the poor people. They are the same haters. Today no one has
23:30the fault.
23:33Surely all the blame is going to fall on me. Okay, I'm good. I'm good with that. But I'm not
23:38a hater. I'm not a hater.
23:40I never let them with their hate, with a perversion, with lack of responsibilities because they are so irresponsible.
23:51Now, there's no one. But I got emotional. But in the middle of an emotion I did that.
23:56And in the middle of that emotion, you came up with, you showed to the world how racist you are.
24:05And now, well, I'm against, well, why didn't you stop this?
24:09Why didn't those who were present there tolerated that action, that racism, that extremism?
24:17They were enjoying that.
24:19And even though we remember the Venezuelans, we remember to them that this Venezuelans is for all.
24:25And we are working together for this Venezuelans to keep moving forward.
24:30For those who are here, but also for those who are abroad, the brothers and sisters who are abroad.
24:36Because when sanctions come, they said, well, sanctions are for the hostal and for the other and for the other.
24:42Well, sanctions.
24:46They invented that we have resources.
24:48Well, you have no proof for that.
24:50If you get to find something, well, I give that to you.
24:54And what happens with the families that saw a daughter or a son live in the nation?
25:05Because they had no opportunities here in Venezuela and they were looking for a better future.
25:10Who's to blame for that?
25:12Who's to blame for the murders because of COVID-19, because we were unable to acquire vaccines?
25:19Who are the ones to blame?
25:22And here we brought vaccines and no one was asked to which party they belonged to.
25:31So, I'm very happy to be here in Trujillo.
25:35I'm going to say something to Venezuelans.
25:38Please record us.
25:39If you do not know Trujillo, if you do not know Trujillo, a Venezuelan citizen who is anywhere,
25:47well, you are missing a beautiful state.
25:55Fill with history, but the best thing of Trujillo is not about going through the Trujillo.
26:05It is stopping by and shaking hands with Trujillo women and men.
26:13That's the best thing because here are good people of good vibe, of so much history, of so much work.
26:23And the brother and sister, the brother governor of Trujillo, I always said this,
26:28when Bolivar, father Bolivar, was sad with lack of moral.
26:35Do you know where he went?
26:38Well, he traveled to Trujillo to cheer himself up, to rise up his moral.
26:46And after that, he gained strength to keep fighting for independence.
26:50So, from here, we demand that Venezuela flies free and we will become the greatest power of this country.
27:01It is not for being a power, not for having arms, but because each and every one of its citizens
27:09have the less that a person requires,
27:13which is health care, households, tranquility, and a work, a decent work.
27:18From here, from Trujillo, I give thanks to you and we are going to keep moving forward with this pilgrimage
27:23for a Venezuela free from sanctions and a peace.
27:26And let Venezuela fly free. Venezuela flies free.
27:33Thank you very much to all of you.
27:35This is, at this moment, the statements of the Minister of Justice, Interior Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello,
27:46in the state of Trujillo.
27:49Those were his words at this moment.
27:51He was calling for all Venezuelans to join this national pilgrimage that is for the common goal of achieving a
27:59Venezuela free from sanctions,
28:00a Venezuela that could fly free, as he said.
28:03He said, regardless of your ideology, regardless of your religious profession,
28:08and also regardless of what do you want for yourself, you need to be together.
28:14That's the message of the Minister of Interior Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, at this hour.
28:19Stay tuned with Telesur English for more information on this national and very important event for Venezuelans.
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