Special envoy Yunus Soner from Caracas, Venezuela is in the Petare neighborhood, where thousands are gathered to support President and candidate for reelection Nicolas Maduro during his campaign rally, successfully following the legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez, who has stayed in the people’s hearts. teleSUR
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00:00Venezuela is living with the joy it's passed towards the elections and our special envoy
00:05Junior Sonner is being a witness of this.
00:08Let's see the following report from the Petare neighborhood in Caracas.
00:12Good afternoon from Petare, Caracas.
00:15This is right now we are at a meeting at the rally of President Maduro in the back stage
00:27here behind me and we are listening to the song Chavez el Corazon del Pueblo, Chavez
00:34the people's heart.
00:35Maduro has held a very emotional speech here in front of thousands of people gathered here
00:43in Petare, one of the poorer neighborhoods, they are dancing, they are remembering, and
00:49he also remembers the Comandante Hugo Chavez, he remembered how Chavez in his last days
00:55demanded of Maduro to defend the revolution, the Bolivarian revolution, how he, Nicolás
01:01Maduro promised him that.
01:03Maduro also remembered and told how he was working here, right on this side, in the Metrobus
01:11station, how he was eating here arepas, how he spent his working life here in these poor
01:17neighborhoods, stating that he is a man of the people.
01:21As you see, there is a huge crowd, they are dancing, as I said, a very emotional speech.
01:31Maduro also made some concrete proposals, but moreover than that, more importantly,
01:37he said, I will be the president on July 28th.
01:42He demonstrated an incredible self-confidence here in Petare and keeps on doing it, and
01:50the people are, as you see, convinced for it.
02:07So he asked the people here, who will win on July 28th?
02:11The people said, Maduro, and he answered, no, the people will win.
02:16He demonstrated here, at one of his bases, a strong unity between him and the people
02:24of Petare, responded positively to that.
02:28A very self-confident presidential candidate here, Nicolás Maduro, behind me.
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