00:13We're going live to Venezuela as the great national pilgrimage continues. Let's listen to the statements of the people, of
00:20the authorities taking part of this pilgrimage in Guayana Ezequiva, in the state of Guayana Ezequiva, for a Venezuela free
00:27of sanctions.
00:31From that debacle brought about by the sanctions and blockade, with the Bolivarian Revolution, with Commander Chávez, we have achieved
00:42the highest levels of income and salaries and pensions of public services, of social services, but the blockade came and
00:51the sanctions, and it took us to a situation, a very precarious situation.
00:56You must remember, in the years 2016, 2017, when we had a minimum of income, when we had warehouses empty,
01:10but the efforts of all, of miners, fishermen, farmers, teachers, of all workers,
01:18we have been able to recover progressively, and without doubt, these years have been years of recovery.
01:26Now our warehouses are not empty, we are not in the minimum of income, but we all know that it
01:34is not enough, that there's still, there's much to do to recover income,
01:38so that we're able to live well, so there's a lot to do to recover public services, water, transport, electricity,
01:47that we still have to recover social services, in health and education.
01:51And of course, we're not going to continue moving forward, with our efforts, with our own work, with the effort
01:57of production, but we all know that we have a brake that doesn't allow us to go faster,
02:04we have a strong brake that doesn't allow us to go to the speed that we would like to, that
02:10when we go to buy abroad, the items we need for agriculture, for mining,
02:16for hospitals, for science and technology, the fact of being blockade and sanctioned, it makes it, that is, it is
02:25more expensive, in time and money,
02:29and that with the product, and thanks to our efforts, we are going to the world to sell our oil,
02:34and our gold, the food that we produce, the manufacture,
02:39we are paid less, we are paid less, because they are sanctioned, and blocked, and blockaded.
02:45In this year, I've shown that the blockade doesn't stop the Venezuelan people, but it makes it more challenging.
02:55The Venezuelan people has the right to be free of sanctions and blockade, to be able to recall faster the
03:01quality of life that the people of Venezuela deserve.
03:03We were told that the blockade was only going to affect a few.
03:09Then, after all these years of being blocked, we have seen that the blockade and sanction does not distinguish from
03:18race, ethnicity, or political militancy.
03:23It affects the salary, the income, the services of all Venezuelans.
03:28It doesn't matter if you support Chavez or the opposition, it doesn't matter if you are Catholic, Christian, or any
03:36other religion that coexists in peace in the Venezuelan territory.
03:42All Venezuelans are victims of the blockade and sanctions, to all Venezuelans being impacted by the blockade and sanctions.
03:53And that's why our acting president, Rodriguez, makes a call of unity to the entire Venezuelan people.
04:01That we walk together, that we unite, that we pilgrimage throughout Venezuela to defend the right that we have.
04:10That those tides are lifted, that way that doesn't allow us to go to the speed that the Venezuelan people
04:17can go, because the Venezuelan people is a people,
04:20it's a working people that goes forward and that grows in the face of adversity.
04:26And the acting president has told us, if we unite, if we show to the world that beyond our differences,
04:34political differences,
04:37that beyond our ideological differences, that beyond our ideological differences,
04:44Venezuelans are capable of uniting for the common well-being, for the common good.
04:51We are capable of uniting for a common cause.
04:54We are capable of uniting to fully recover the services, the economy, the life and future of the world.
05:02People will have to listen to us, and they will have to definitely lift the blockade and sanctions.
05:09And if we achieve this, it will mean that we will accelerate significantly the process of recovery,
05:17the process of recovery of the services, of the social policies, of income, of the wages of all workers.
05:27It is the great battle that we must fight.
05:29But there is no time for hate. This is not the time for division.
05:35This is the time for unity, for adding up, for joining together to build a future of prosperity for all
05:42Venezuelans.
05:43That's why from here, from such an important state for the future of the homeland, as it is Guayana Ezequiva,
05:51I joined the call, and I call all the Venezuelan people to come together and join the call of acting
05:58present as Rodriguez through unity,
06:00and to mobilize for a country free of sanctions. God bless you. Thank you very much.
06:14Well, we're listening to the statements of Hector Rodriguez, the Minister of Education, who was holding a rally in the
06:21Guayana Ezequiva as the pilgrimage that departed from the Amazonas now reaches the Guayana Ezequiva and continues to its path.
06:28We must recall that all these national great pilgrims that started from three different locations, three different states in the
06:34country, from Tashira, Zulia, and Amazonas.
06:36It started on Sunday, April 19th, marking as well commemorating the anniversary of the beginning of the independent struggle against
06:42the Spanish Empire.
06:43Now is was the beginning of this struggle of united Venezuela, all Venezuelans with a single call of calling for
06:50the end of the blockade and sanctions.
06:54With all these pilgrimage that is taking place across the country in the next couple in the next days will
06:58come to an end.
07:00We'll conclude in on May 1st in Caracas with a massive gathering where the people united reaffirmed their commitment for
07:08a prosperous Venezuela and for an independent sovereign Venezuela.
07:11As well as stay tuned with Teresa Ringles for more updates in upcoming news briefs.
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