All of Venezuela participates in the 2nd Popular Consultation

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From Caracas, our correspondent Gladys Quesada, updates us on the progress of the 2nd Popular Consultation in Venezuela. teleSUR

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00:00Let's now return with our correspondent in Caracas, Gladys Quesada, for more information on these voting days.

00:05Hello, Gladys. Welcome to From the South. What can you tell us so far?

00:13Hello, Luis. Yes, the voting day continues and moves on here in Caracas, in all Venezuela,

00:20and this is just part of the second consultation in the communes voting for the projects.

00:28As we were saying, they are discussing thousands and thousands of projects that

00:32were nominated and chosen in the assemblies of these communal councils. Right now,

00:38I'm at the Negro Luis Villafaña, one of the many communal councils here in the circuits,

00:44and I'm at the El Recreo and La Florida, you know, localities here in Caracas too.

00:51So, so far, people are still coming to vote. We left the other voting center that we were,

00:57and people were still coming, and just the same is happening here, when, as you can see,

01:02the leaders of the communes, the leaders of the social organizations that make up this commune

01:08and this communal center, they are here checking out the information, crossing the information,

01:15and, you know, they have been also discussing the issues of the day, because, you know,

01:22they have to double-check the information, they have to identify the voters, they have to help

01:28the elderly and those with mobility issues, they have to find representatives for the indigenous

01:33peoples that live in the city and that need maybe translation or maybe a representative

01:39according to their culture and according to their characteristics, and, you know,

01:44those are punctual details that they have to deal with. But so far, I wanted to tell you,

01:51because it is curious, the differences between the projects that they are voting for. In this

01:56voting center, they are choosing amongst seven projects that they proposed, and amongst them,

02:04they need a gas mobile plant to be supplied with this element. They want a club for the elderly,

02:15a grandparents and grandmothers club, which is one of the many priorities of this communal center,

02:22because they have elderly population. In other areas, they have youngsters. Here,

02:27they have more elder population who need care and who need resources allocated in their favor.

02:34In that case, they also are asking for the construction of wall, a wall that can contain

02:42the waters because we are in a zone that is prominent to have hills, so the water needs

02:49to be contained because downstream, you know, can damage the houses, the sidewalks and the streets.

02:56They also are asking for the rehabilitation of the houses and the rooftops and the rehabilitation

03:04of drains and bridges because we are in other zones. I think those projects showcase

03:12that the reality of the locations where people live here in Caracas and in all Venezuela

03:18are the ones that define the pressing urgencies, the pressing needs of the people and also what

03:24they are asking. As you can see, there is a spectrum of petitions, but all of them are

03:30moving on because they want to improve the quality of life of everyone. I have one thing to tell you

03:36that I was listening to someone in the other voting center, and that is that maybe the water

03:42supply is needed and the water is not blue, the water is not red, the water is just water. Those

03:48of the opposition and those with the chavismo, both sides need the same supplies, need the same

03:54solutions to their problems, and that's why the commune has no specificity or maybe they don't

04:03have political filters in the case of giving solutions to the people. We will go inside

04:13in further missions, we will explore a little bit more, but so far people are still coming

04:18and this process is accompanied by militia members who are part of the civic military

04:25union here in Caracas and in all Venezuela, and of course they are accompanied by

04:30the representatives of the communes, the representatives of the communal council.

04:35This is just one of the many places that are seeing and observing this kind of process,

04:41these elections today, and we will be reporting for you and for our audience

04:46in upcoming missions. Luis, back to you.

04:49Thank you, Clarice, for the updated report on everything that is going on in Venezuela.

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