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Statements by Diosdado Cabello, Sectoral VP of Politics, Citizen Security and Peace of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as he leads the Great National Pilgrimage for a Country Free of Sanctions in the Apure State. teleSUR
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00:04We're going live to Venezuela as citizens continue to take part of the great national
00:08pilgrimage for the sanctioned free nation and a nation of peace. Listen to the statements of Dios
00:12Dao Cabello. They didn't ask for paper to anyone. No one asked what party you belong to, what
00:33sector you belong to, what religion you profess. All of us were vaccinated. People we went to
00:42look for the people to vaccinate them. There are people that received five times the vaccines
00:47and there were people that died searching for other people to get the vaccine. Impact,
00:55of course it has an impact. They say, no, we only sanction Dios Dao Cabello and freeze
01:00its assets. Well, I was just realizing I had assets abroad. But it's the narrative.
01:16And that's what was happening until very short while ago. So we are not talking something
01:23about three years ago, two months ago, three months ago. Europeans blocked the accounts of
01:31a person that never had had an account in Europe and a fictitious account was blocked. And of course,
01:44this began to be felt across the family homes of Venezuela. A young student would say, I will not stay
01:56in Venezuela.
01:56Of course, there was a big media campaign and narrative. I will not stay in Venezuela because
02:02Venezuela is headed to collapse. So I'm leaving. And he would tell his parents, I'm leaving Venezuela.
02:10Son, don't go. No, I have to go. I cannot stay here. I'm going to be a burden for you.
02:15Son, don't go. And they ended up traveling to our places, a large number of young, with families,
02:27children. And they traveled due to the terrible campaign that existed against Venezuela. You remember
02:35that. That's how it began. That great campaign against our country. And it worked. And it had its impact.
02:56Yet, brave ones remain here. The brave ones that say, no, we stay in Venezuela. The Venezuelan farmers
03:03stayed in Venezuela to farm their land against all adversities. Our indigenous remain in Venezuela
03:13with all the adversities. Some businessmen remain as well in Venezuela. They didn't leave. And they
03:22continued working very hard. Now it is our turn for those that remain here and for those that return
03:33are outside to return home, to return to the country, to return to their families. Because
03:46that's without doubt. He had its impact. If I'm a father of a family and I have no political affiliation
03:56with anyone in my home. And my 20-year-old son, my 20-year-old daughter, tell me, Father, I'm
04:04leaving. Why are you leaving? Well, this country doesn't work. Who do I see to blame that this country
04:11doesn't work? It's a natural response. Those that are governing at all levels. From that generated
04:31a great despair in Venezuelans. A large number of Venezuelans. When our president talks about the
04:39pilgrimage is so that that faith is renewed, faith in the country, so that the hope in the country
04:45becomes stronger, so that we all join together. Here we are. This is a space of a private company.
04:53This company remained in Venezuela through the pandemic and grew. Like this one, many other examples.
05:00They decided to move forward amidst the adversities. They took advantage of what some call crisis,
05:08and they said, on this crisis, I'm going to ride that wave. And when people return, I'm going to be
05:13very well installed. Because now there are people that are going to return. I'm already installed. I'm
05:21already producing and things get better. I have a lead start. This country belongs to all. There are some
05:32people that believe that it belongs to a small sector only. They've been the rulers of the valley the whole
05:42life.
05:47I call it here. I was speaking of that.
05:56Remember times of commerce during colony. I could only trade with Spain. Well, yes, they only started a few
06:05company. And those are people that were not involved in that group would not be able. And check who are
06:13the
06:13descendants of those companies that they designated. Who are their descendants?
06:24The same that today hate Venezuela and that today go around the world speaking ill of their own country.
06:32It's something most identify us. It's our self-esteem.
06:44It's the strength of the Venezuelan. Love for Venezuelan. Positive of being Venezuelan.
06:55We should have a motto. If it's made in Venezuela, it is the best. The best.
07:10I put an example. An example of what the power of PACs are that no one votes for them.
07:24You remember the times when there was one single
07:30corn. Farmers know because one takes the corn
07:40but there was only one brand of corn
07:47pre-cooked. They were the owners of the market
07:51market. Until some crazy adventurers had the idea to innovate.
07:59And they began to have small brands. What remains of that old monopoly
08:06is only the name because there's more than 600 corn brands in the country right now.
08:15It's like the breeders of buffalo. When they brought the first buffalo here,
08:19people were like that ugly animal here in Venezuela. No.
08:24That would not work here in Venezuela.
08:32The farmer knows that it is like that. I'm not saying anything weird.
08:38Buffalos in Venezuela, our things are cows.
08:43I put it today. It's a state that has more heads of buffalo in the country.
08:49They believe in a project that many believe to be impossible.
08:59That last year grew 50% the flock.
09:05They went from 3 million. They believed in their project.
09:12The pioneers. The same as those of the pre-cooked corn believed.
09:20What happened is people were here. The same thing happened with mayonnaise.
09:26What they referred to margarina kind of water. The same.
09:32Monopolis.
09:42Today Venezuela is moving forward because we have received a very strong hit with the sanctions.
09:50Yes. It hit us all over.
09:54But we are strong as high.
09:58If we get hit by one side, we rise by the other.
10:04And these people have learned to learn more with less.
10:08Yesterday, I was in Paramo.
10:12The climate is pretty much the same as here. There's not much difference.
10:19All fresh. Very cool.
10:26What they truly are the same, the people from Maria and Apure, is that they never rest.
10:33They are always working.
10:35They are always working.
10:40I've always traveled to Apure. I've always been in this area.
10:52I believe that Apure is the only state in Venezuela that is not a state, but it's actually two.
11:00One in the winter and one in summer.
11:03One in the winter.
11:04Double potential.
11:09Apure should have.
11:14Don't give the context to anyone.
11:24When people in Caracas see what happens in Caracas, they have no idea what happens here in Apure.
11:30We should do a great route here in Apure and we invite people to come.
11:54Apure even has beautiful beaches where you can bathe and be eaten by a Cayman.
12:02That's just a joke.
12:03People from Caracas come to Apure so you see beautiful landscape.
12:08Eat very good food.
12:29The only bad thing in Apure is that
12:33Cachapas are made with yellow corn.
12:35With white corn, not with yellow corn.
12:38Well, well, we accept you.
12:41Apure has a great potential.
12:45You should make a great route and we bring the people from Caracas
12:49to see beautiful things and learn about their homeland.
12:53Because in these lands in Apure, in these plains of Apure was where the Venezuelan independence was consolidated.
13:08Because here was a very brave man with an army.
13:15Los Antonio Paz, one of the incredible warriors.
13:24And it cost a lot to Bolivar and Bolivar never began his struggle for independence of America until he didn't
13:33have his alliance with Antonio Paz.
13:35That's part of our history.
13:38So you see the difference.
13:39I went to Merida.
13:42And I arrived there.
13:47And they give me a dog there and I named him Carabobo.
13:53And he told me the history because he has a tourist vocation because people want to know the history.
14:03They want to know that Nevada was with Bolivar and how did Bolivar meet with Nevada in a farm.
14:08And then they went to many battles together until he died in Carabobo.
14:13Many people don't know this.
14:15And how much history is here.
14:26You know who understood this?
14:30Hugo Chavez understood this well, very well.
14:34That's why he said that he could have been born but his heart would always be in Apure.
14:51The Venezuelan opposition is the same.
14:55That extremist opposition, I beg your pardon for the opposition people present here.
15:00The extremist opposition, the extremist opposition is the same.
15:08Behind all that of everything, me personally, I believe that they don't want to rule ever.
15:16Forgive me if I say it like this.
15:18They want to be, continue to be opposition because they want to, they turn this into a business.
15:25They practice that, that every day
15:31a fool comes out believing that the world belongs to him and they abuse him.
15:37Because they don't want to rule because to rule means that you have to get your hands dirty
15:42and go where the issues are.
15:45To rule means to attend the people.
15:50Goberning means to be responsible for the area that, for what happens in the area that you govern,
15:56not turn a plan eye.
15:58They are not interested in that.
16:00Do you picture them worried about the people?
16:12There were man hunts here.
16:15They came from Caracas to hunt indigenous people.
16:23One says it like this, it sounds hard, but those are the same people that burned Orlando Figuera.
16:31That they don't care for the life of another human being just because they believe themselves to be superior.
16:38Venezuela today claims that everyone is the same.
16:44That there are no difference.
16:45The day that there's elections, whoever wins go there and govern
16:50and see the difference between asking for water and giving water.
16:57When elections came, I wrote down a phrase.
17:03There are people, colleagues.
17:06It was a colleague from Soluciones.
17:17These are not oppositions, they oppose the country.
17:22Because if I want to be a candidate for a poor state, I do my political campaign.
17:29And the political campaign
17:33cannot be, even if something is fixed, you cannot say it's broken.
17:47But to oppose your own country, that's a miserable thing to do.
17:52Disgusting.
17:56We listen here, I ask the colleagues here from the different associations for the reforms of law.
18:09I don't carry that task, but I ask.
18:21I've learned about things of corruption that have happened, of theft, of heads of cows.
18:31And more than one have been sanctioned.
18:34But impunity cannot be a norm.
18:38That's why there is a constitution and the laws.
18:40You know that our acting president, Desi Rodriguez,
18:44or the first decision she took,
18:48was present before the National Assembly an amnesty law.
18:55Some people from the Chavez sector did not like it.
18:58I know it is like that.
19:00People close to us say, what is that?
19:03These people want to burn the country.
19:06But the acting president said, we have to take a first step.
19:10And let's open this space.
19:13That is not us, the ones that don't want to understand what is happening in Venezuela.
19:18And I don't know how many people have benefited by the amnesty law.
19:23But it's that extremist opposition, they truly are not smart.
19:29They say that the amnesty law did not work.
19:31You remember that.
19:32And when the president said the amnesty law came to an end,
19:38now they say that why it came to an end.
19:40That's how they are.
19:50A large amount of people benefited.
19:55Some sectors of Chavism with their reason because we have lived very unfortunate things in different
20:03states of those that want to do policy in a different manner.
20:08And then came the lifting of sanctions on the central bank of Venezuela and the public bank.
20:19The whole financing system has their own methods and ways.
20:27We didn't have an account of the Venezuelan bank in the world anywhere.
20:31Those were blocked.
20:36And now they leave those sanctions and the Venezuelan bank is going forward with the
20:43relaunch of those banking relationships.
20:49When the accounts were blocked, they stole Citgo.
20:56And that issue of Citgo will have, there's going to be a lot of discussion of what they did with
21:02the money
21:04of all Venezuelans.
21:05So what do we do?
21:05Do we apply the amnesty law with those people that stole the money of Venezuelans?
21:10Those are the questions one asks oneself.
21:15Because I was in Mérida and I was telling the colleagues there, there are people without any kind of
21:28of honor that come out and they call political prisoners corrupt officials.
21:38They stole the money of the people, the money from PDVSA.
21:41So are we to allow them to steal the money?
21:46It cannot be with impunity.
21:49What's good with the amnesty law is that the game once again begins
21:54from neo-nil.
21:55So whoever commits a crime will have to face the justice.
21:59Another saying, Yosdao is threatening, I'm not threatening anyone.
22:02That's what's written on the constitution and laws.
22:17Venezuela also relaunched relationships with the IMF.
22:23Some people from the chavism didn't like that.
22:27It cannot be.
22:28The World Bank, once again, they owe us five billion dollars that belong to all Venezuelans.
22:35Wilmer, if Wilmer sells me five cows and I'm over there in Monaga and I say, Wilmer,
22:50well, send me the cows, I will pay you by silly.
22:56And Wilmer will say, no, no, I don't have that.
23:01I will pay you by phone, even less.
23:06I have the money.
23:07I have the money on me, but I have no means to pay him.
23:11I have to go to Apurre.
23:14Imagine that to pay.
23:16And that's a very simple operation.
23:19The same, the only way that Venezuela has to recover that money is to have relations with
23:24the IMF.
23:25That doesn't mean we are going to get in debt or we're going to apply a package here in
23:29Venezuela.
23:30That has nothing to do with that.
23:36But if you want to call our veins, well, I can give you a razor knife if you want to
23:41do that.
23:43Whoever has a better idea than that puts it on the table.
23:49But criticize just for criticizing, it doesn't help the country.
23:53And we take on the criticism.
23:56And the Iraqi president put her face everywhere, attacks from within, from the outside.
24:01They don't know the LC.
24:11When this man called her monkey in Spain, he's not only calling monkey, they'll see.
24:19He's calling monkey all Venezuelan women out with the monkey.
24:25Is that a new thing?
24:26No, that's not new.
24:35Because I'm thinking about blockade during commerce, during colonia, but Cipriano
24:40Castro was also blocked.
24:41But Cipriano Castro, imagine, imagine,
24:49beginning of the 1900s, and Cipriano Castro, in the world, over 3,000 cartoons were made
25:02to refer to him as a monkey.
25:05And where do you think that campaign came from against Cipriano Castro?
25:09Right here from Venezuela.
25:11It was the same campaign that in 1860 over there,
25:15offered the English, our Guayana Ezequiva, in exchange to take out the monkeys that govern Venezuela
25:23for that time.
25:24It's racism.
25:28If there is a stupid sickness of the soul, it's racism.
25:32Because you have to be sick in your soul to think that someone is superior to another person
25:37for their skin color, religion, or for any other reason.
25:41Really sick in your soul.
25:46I don't know if that has a cure.
25:49It is said that it's cured by reading and studying, but I don't know.
25:56They got there on a stage to say, out with the monkey.
26:00That was planned, you know what?
26:01So that in their world, people would believe that Venezuelans hated Chelsea.
26:08That's how it was planned.
26:14Venezuela is more than them.
26:16Venezuela is more than them.
26:27Today we find in the most challenging sectors we have gathered here in this meeting.
26:32We did three routes.
26:34The acting president came from Zulia, from the west side to Andes and the plains,
26:42and Jorge by Amazonas over there in the south.
26:46And we're going to gather in Caracas on Thursday.
26:50We're going to be closing this first stage in Caracas.
26:54All Venezuela will meet in Caracas.
26:57Apure has to go there as well.
26:58A great pilgrimage to Caracas.
27:05In a first stage, because it's not just one subanathene event, the pilgrimage, let's say.
27:13Apure, if you visit other places, it's half of Apure, right?
27:20If you don't go over there to Orsa, I've never been there.
27:34That's the state.
27:35I began in Merida yesterday.
27:39How will I go to Merida and I will go to Paramo where most of the food production is done?
27:44The farmers are, no?
27:45We have to start there.
27:47And then I ended in Merida in a cathedral.
27:53Of Immaculate Conception, the restoration work was launched.
28:00It was beautiful.
28:02Mostly by women, especially in restoration work.
28:08That cathedral has tinted glass, very high tinted glass.
28:13And with hardness, they go over there glass by glass to work.
28:19They say that by the end of the year, it should be ready.
28:24When you go to Merida, go to that cathedral.
28:26It's very beautiful.
28:29We were also here in Portuguesa, in the cathedral of the Virgin of Coromoto.
28:36And if you go back here and you go by shower, where do you truly go?
28:47It's the full programmation in every state and that must be done.
28:54I take from here several tasks dealing with the fever.
29:02Efforts are being done individually, but there's a concept that is used at times
29:10in system theory that say that the whole is more than the addition of the parts.
29:16If everyone, if every single owner of ranch were vaccinated and not united to claim to
29:31to be recognized as a territory free of the seas, you will never achieve it.
29:39I go, I'm free.
29:42And your neighbor?
29:44He must come as well.
29:46We have to be united for everything.
29:51And our concept is that we must take the best of everything.
29:59Everything bad, we must discard it.
30:07Let's advance in the positive.
30:16There in Merida and Tachera, they were telling us about smuggling.
30:21The same happens here.
30:22A producer comes, they work the land on that hill over there.
30:29They work, they put everything they needed to do.
30:35And he bought some seeds.
30:37And they tell me it's very beautiful.
30:39It's a very good seed.
30:40It's the best of all.
30:46And you trust it, hopeful.
30:49Walk the land, planted the seeds.
30:52And a day through three days happens and nothing sprouts.
30:59And you lost all your money because you bought a bad seed.
31:05And that's where the state has to support the farmers with the best seeds possible.
31:15Because if there is a will, we can do it.
31:18Rice was not grown here.
31:20And now people have begun harvesting rice.
31:24And there are people with great experience.
31:26The example of the buffaloes as well.
31:31No one believed in those also.
31:33And now it's a great powerhouse.
31:46This country belongs to all of us.
31:53So let's open our arms and hearts to those that left.
31:5825,000 have already returned back to the homeland plan.
32:03I'm certain that some of the people that are here today must have an acquaintance or a family member.
32:09We take him to his home.
32:11It's not that we just take him and drop it there.
32:23We take him all the way home.
32:25We knock on the door.
32:27And we leave him at home.
32:31I will conclude with this.
32:37How did people do to study here in Venezuela before?
32:41How did the people in Apure study here in Apure?
32:48How did you do?
32:52I'm referring, of course, to the oldest generation.
33:00Because when I see Jesus Ratia, a student, he speaks with his heart.
33:14How many talented youth were not able to study because they had none of the means.
33:19They had to go all the way to Maracaibo.
33:30And that was not an issue only of Apure.
33:34If I had stayed in Magdalena, I would have not studied.
33:40Today, we have universities all over Venezuela.
33:45And youth can study.
33:50And they are becoming not only good professionals, but also good human beings.
33:57And when we see this great athlete from Apure,
34:02that has been Pan-American champion
34:06and continues to train.
34:10So that's why we say and we must decide that we are the best.
34:14So this is the moment to decide we are the best as a baseball team of Venezuela.
34:20They were to the World Championship.
34:23Some played in the Major League Baseball.
34:26Some other played in Japan.
34:28Some other played in Korea.
34:29But when they had to come together to represent Venezuela,
34:33they put on the T-shirt of Venezuela.
34:35And they put the name of Venezuela in the highest point.
34:40We won everyone.
34:43Dominican Republic made a party because they were able to win a game.
34:54And when we had to play hard for the title,
35:01the positive of all Venezuelans came forward there.
35:08And I always remember, for all those images,
35:14I recall the image of a baseball player.
35:18He took the flag and thanked God.
35:25The Venezuelan flag of our country.
35:29And prayed to God.
35:37We always have someone above that is helping us.
35:43And especially these Venezuelan people
35:46that are able to overcome everything that it has overcome.
35:51There are many more good things coming for this country.
35:56Well, brothers, I take some tasks from here.
36:00I ask the governor with all sectors to write a document
36:04of the Apur state.
36:07With that document, I take it to, as part of my work,
36:13of coming here to the Apur state.
36:19Other things there, the requests
36:21that the different sectors will make.
36:23And I will fight for it with anyone that I have to
36:27so that good things get to Apur.
36:30A big embrace for all of you.
36:41Señoras y señores.
36:44Ovidas en las palabras.
36:45So these were the statements
36:47of the Minister of Interior Justice and Peace,
36:50Diosdado Cabello,
36:52who was also addressing this gathering
36:54of different sectors of the Apur state.
36:57Another stop of the great national pilgrimage
37:00for a sanction-free and at peace nation
37:03that's been taking place for the past couple of weeks.
37:06Almost eight, nine days now.
37:08It began on April 19th, nine days since the beginning
37:12of this great national pilgrimage that began,
37:18as we're saying, for Venezuela to come together,
37:21answering the call of acting president Rodriguez,
37:23for all Venezuelans to come together
37:25and join in one single call for an end of the sanctions
37:30and to consolidate peace for all Venezuelans.
37:32The authorities have expressed
37:33that they're going to be working
37:34to face the challenges ahead
37:35and also have also announced
37:38that good things are coming to Venezuela
37:39if Venezuela unites and consolidates their work
37:43towards a prosper nation,
37:45towards one single goal,
37:46which is a sanction, free of sanctions,
37:49a country free of sanctions,
37:51a country without blockades
37:52and a country that, as they have said,
37:54can fly free.
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