Venezuela: Militias commemorate 194th anniversary of the passing of liberator

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In Venezuela, president Nicolás Maduro held a meeting with members of the Bolivarian national militias, in the framework of the 194th anniversary of the passing of liberator Simon Bolivar to immortality.

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00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro held a meeting with members of the Bolivarian National

00:05Militias in the framework of the 194th anniversary of the passing of liberator Simón Bolívar

00:11to immortality.

00:13In his remarks, the President assured the people he is willing to keep Bolívar's legacy

00:17alive for his role in fighting against colonialism in Venezuela and Latin America, for being

00:23a creator and guide of the military thinking of Venezuela.

00:28President Maduro also called for empowering communities and organizing the everyday people

00:33and empowering Latin America in honor of Bolívar's struggle for the most dispossessed classes,

00:39for the union of all America, for the internationalism and anti-imperialism that mark his trajectory.

00:45A hundred and ninety-four years from today, we say goodbye to the greatest, the one who

01:04gave everything he had, his body, his life, even his wealth, because he was born in this

01:15city in a wealthy household, but he gave up his wealth for the freedom of the peoples

01:25of America.

01:28And a day like today, a hundred and ninety-four years ago, the good soul of the peoples liberated

01:37by his sword moved when, by running the news of the passing of the liberator father, but

01:53he didn't die, he was still present, as Miguel Ángel Asturias would say, watching the destiny

02:09of his people.

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