00:00Well, as you have said, we have advanced a lot, but it is not enough because we know all the
00:08actors that are part of the justice system, including the security personnel, where we have also moved forward, but there
00:17are still vices and abuse of power that must be corrected.
00:23I call that to all the organizations, the competent bodies in the matter, we act in accord in a manner
00:30as Venezuelans of good to deal with this issue.
00:35These are daily complaints of citizens.
00:39These are complaints of all Venezuelans that aspire to maintain a relationship of respect with their organization of citizen security
00:50for the upkeeping of peace and tranquility.
00:53That they aspire to go to a tribunal to have a good treatment.
00:57I was a student of law, and I know how bad someone can be treated in a tribunal.
01:03I repeat, I know that we have moved forward a lot, but there are ills that still persist that we
01:08have not been able to overcome.
01:09And that's why the national consultation is not only to consult the academics, the specialists, those involved, but also to
01:18consult the people about their concept and their aspiration of what justice, of what daily justice is.
01:25Especially in the penal region, which is the most serious, because it ends with prison sentences and I inspire all
01:37citizens that justice, penal justice, can act with the characteristics that are contemplating our constitution as a human right.
01:47Access to justice is a human right.
01:50So what we are talking here is a consultation about human rights.
01:55I would like also because we have been in a process of amnesty with the amnesty law that was approved
02:06by the National Assembly.
02:07Anyway, the amnesty law has been very successful in terms of coverage, in terms of those that were benefited.
02:16There will always be voices that seek to disturb the process.
02:21But I've made comparisons that put this amnesty law in a very high standard in relation to what the amnesty
02:29law was in South Africa that lasted seven years or what is the amnesty law in Spain that is still
02:36in effect since 2004.
02:38And here we are talking over 8,600 people that have been benefited by the amnesty law, which have today
02:48full freedom granted through the amnesty law.
02:52An amnesty law that emerged as a consequence of the strengthening of the political confrontation in Venezuela that led to
03:01a foreign aggression and led us to reflection.
03:08It led us to think what to do to correct the path of Venezuela, what to do so that Venezuelans
03:16can solve our differences in spaces of respect and tolerance to eradicate hate, to eradicate intolerance, to eradicate racism, xenophobia.
03:32All this that has been present in the agenda, both of our migrants and Venezuelans that are here and we
03:40have through the co-existent, the democratic co-existence program.
03:46So that all Venezuelans can have a space for dialogue, for particular dialogue that takes forward, taken forward by the
03:53National Assembly for economic dialogue, social dialogue, cultural dialogue.
03:56So that all sectors of Venezuela can find a mirror where they can see their anguish, their happiness, their joy,
04:05but that we can recognize each other from diversity.
04:09That's what the program represents and that is why this amnesty law that comes to an end, well, for those
04:18cases that were not contemplated or better say they were expressly excluded in the amnesty law, there are other spaces
04:27where they can be talked about.
04:29We have said that in the democratic co-existent program, there is a space to deal with these cases related
04:37to justice, with the commission for the reform of the penal justice is also a space and I would like
04:45that the president of the National Assembly, to whom I thank for his efforts, first for the process for the
04:51approval of the amnesty law, but also what it has been all the follow up of every case that was
04:57taken there.
04:59He can give us his impressions of what this process has been.
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