00:00The impact of the sanctions that also impacts all of us.
00:04These 1,081 unilateral coercive measures, sanctions,
00:08concrete measures of blockade,
00:11that have impacted, well, the oil industry in the first place.
00:16That impacted the financial system.
00:20The businessmen from here must know how complex it is
00:23to buy or sell in terms of exports or imports
00:28when you are excluded from the international financing system.
00:31When Venezuelans, for example, they don't have access to the so-called
00:36SWIFT system. When Venezuela wants to sell
00:40something, we have to do it
00:44cheaper because it is blocked and sanctioned.
00:48When Venezuela wants to buy something, it is sold
00:52at a higher price because it is blocked and sanctioned.
00:57When Venezuela has to do a public or private payment
01:00and has to use someone
01:02to do this
01:04in terms of financing
01:05is more expensive
01:07than any other economic person
01:11or businessman of the world.
01:13That's a reality.
01:14That's how it is.
01:17In a meeting in the United States
01:18that President Donald Trump had
01:20with a lot of oil companies
01:22they asked Halliburton
01:25since when did you leave Venezuela
01:27and the guy told him
01:29since 2019
01:30due to the sanctions that you implemented
01:31we had to leave Venezuela
01:33which is a company that
01:36provides services in the oil sector.
01:40We are obliged to unite
01:46so that sanctions and blockades
01:48end against our country.
01:51I was telling
01:52Deputy America, we were talking about it.
01:55I was saying Venezuela
01:56in one year
01:57we had $54 billion
01:59of income
02:01due to
02:03oil experts.
02:05Imagine the amount of money
02:07that is $54 billion
02:08in a year.
02:09But in 2020
02:12we had $700 million
02:14of income.
02:15That's 1.3%
02:17of income
02:17of those $54 billion
02:19that year 2020
02:20it was really hard.
02:23Amidst the pandemic
02:25we were all running
02:27to see how we would
02:28protect our people.
02:31From the year 2021 to date
02:33there's been a process of recovery.
02:37A deputy in the National Assembly
02:39denied the existence
02:41of the sanctions.
02:43and said
02:44well
02:45it is well known
02:47when the same United Nations
02:49has called
02:50the United States
02:51and Europe
02:52to lift the sanctions
02:53against the Venezuelan economy
02:55against the people of Venezuela.
02:57I said
02:58well
02:58if there are 20 trimesters
03:00of growth
03:01where is that?
03:03I will say
03:04the people from Margarita
03:05I came here
03:06in 2019
03:07in 2020
03:08in 2021
03:09and if we take the pictures
03:11of the Holy Week
03:13of 2021
03:14is it the same picture
03:15of the Holy Week
03:16of 2026
03:17that I take this opportunity
03:19to congratulate
03:20all of you
03:21for the astonishing
03:22Holy Week
03:23that you had here
03:23in this area
03:24for the amount of national
03:26and international tourists
03:27that you had here
03:28and the concerts.
03:30when I say
03:31when I say
03:31use a picture
03:32you see a picture
03:33and you realize
03:34it's not the same
03:36does this mean
03:37everything has been resolved?
03:38no
03:38does it mean it's enough?
03:40well of course
03:40it is not
03:41there's been a process
03:42of recovery
03:43a process of recovery
03:45well
03:47little by little
03:49small by
03:49small steps
03:50but it is a recovery
03:51the incomes
03:53of our workers
03:55are
03:56makes
03:57more
03:57possible
03:58it is easier
03:59to
04:01solve the issue
04:02of the incomes
04:03of our workers
04:03without sanctions
04:04and that's why
04:05we are
04:07saying
04:08to come together
04:09to move forward
04:14you are walking a mountain
04:16right?
04:16you are going up
04:17mountains
04:21and they put
04:221,081 stones
04:24it's not the same
04:25to go
04:26up the mountain
04:27with 1,081 stones
04:29on your backpack
04:30but that without them
04:32a teaching exercise
04:34to understand
04:34the impact
04:35that these sanctions
04:36can have
04:37we have managed
04:39with blockade
04:40and sanctions
04:40launch this process
04:41of recovery
04:42of economic recovery
04:43I'm certain
04:44that if we unite
04:46and we achieve
04:47to move forward
04:48that all sanctions
04:50are removed
04:51all the coercive measures
04:52are removed
04:53Venezuela
04:53will advance
04:56quicker
04:57in the recovery
04:59of the economy
05:00and that economic recovery
05:02has to be translated
05:04of course
05:05to resolve the issues
05:07of our people
05:07of course
05:08public service
05:09power
05:09water
05:10social services
05:11health
05:12to continue strengthening
05:13education
05:15for that purpose
05:17we must unite
05:18the president
05:21the acting president
05:22was saying
05:22on Thursday
05:24in
05:25in Lara
05:26she was saying
05:28five million children
05:29were born
05:30with a blocked
05:31country
05:32with a sanctioned country
05:33it is our responsibility
05:36as Venezuelans
05:38independently
05:39of our political
05:41ideal
05:41of our
05:43mittency
05:45to bequeath
05:48to deliver
05:50to future generations
05:52a country
05:52still blocked
05:53or deliver
05:54a nation
05:54free of sanctions
05:55with prosperity
05:56with work opportunities
05:59today
06:00the national
06:00national
06:01national
06:01national
06:01final
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