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The President of Venezuela during the Peasant Congress, refers to the arrival of the children kidnapped in the United States, as well as the return of the 252 Venezuelan migrants unjustly detained in El Salvador. teleSUR
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00:00Hello, join us as we go live to Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduri's offering statements. Let's listen.
00:09Today, foundational day, in this National Congress of Farmers,
00:18asked by the people for us to salute, to greet everyone who is watching their TVs
00:28and listening to the radio, even in the latest country, on the countryside,
00:34we are going to make a shout-out for Venezuela.
00:58They did, they made a video, a farmer's movement, now utilizing AI, artificial intelligence,
01:17and I was nuts. I'm going to tell you where I'm coming from.
01:22I was nuts. When I saw the video made with artificial intelligence,
01:29how it is joined in a single cause, the images, the messages,
01:34and I want to share them, share it with all Venezuela.
01:39Let's listen and let's see to this. Look how beautiful it was made.
01:52Venezuela has to be, and is going to be, a power in this continent.
02:06This land is of yours. This land has been free for you to labor in, in defense of the people.
02:19This revolution is the transformative gate, the product farmers,
02:26the guarantee of the struggle against the economic war,
02:30farmers, women and men of our homeland, a powerful motor of the sustainable food model,
02:40economic model of Venezuela needed to achieve revolution.
02:44The strong, a strong, powerful strength as this one, and we have seen this before, never.
02:50This is our free land, the homeland of Bolivar, long left to the former people of Venezuela.
02:57A single path, the path of Zamora, of Chavez, of the people.
03:14This is the path of the people of all times of equality and justice and truth.
03:20The truth of a people that knew how to make their path towards freedom and go through all times,
03:30and now we need to go, to keep moving towards the new time.
03:36This is foundational congress, and if you allow me to say this, I'm going to make some comments.
03:43Everything that happened and those things that are about to happen,
03:49because it is today, it is the perfect day for Venezuela, July 18th, 2025.
03:58Farmers Congress, Foundational Congress, Inaugural Congress of the New Strengths and Union.
04:07We came here to find the new strong, the new unity and the new strength.
04:23Today has been a splendorous day.
04:28Early in the morning, at noon, we rescued seven children, boys and girls,
04:39from those 31 boys and girls detained in jails, of migrant jails in the United States of America.
04:58That's the moment in which the airplane arrived with over 200 migrants, where these girls arrived.
05:13There was Diosdado Cabella as well, Celia, Camila Fabra as well, chief of the great mission back to the homeland plan.
05:26Those kids are back to the homeland after suffering detention and forced separation from their mothers and families and fathers.
05:37We have 31 children kidnapped out of those that were rescued already, seven.
05:44There could be more.
05:46You may be sure of this, because I have compromised myself before these families,
05:53that we are going to rescue all of those children, boys and girls, who have been detained in jails, in migrant jails, in the United States.
06:05We are going to be waiting for them.
06:09And I received them.
06:11I welcomed them at the Mila Flores Palace.
06:15And there I requested the presence of their mothers and grandmothers.
06:20And some of them didn't even know about the information.
06:27One of those mothers found out that her boy arrived because she saw him on Diosdado's hands.
06:35That other girl said that I was his aunt, his uncle.
06:41And now they are on their homeland.
06:43They are going to be happy, prosperous boys and girls.
06:46And they are going to be, they are going to grow up as a free young men and women.
06:54I spoke to every one of those children.
07:00I hugged them.
07:03And I enjoyed the happiness of their mothers, of grandmothers.
07:09And a moment that I can say that it was very intense and very emotional.
07:16It is uncomfortable when justice is made.
07:21And precisely when justice is made when there are children involved in an act, in an inhuman act.
07:30Please, you can see there's the list.
07:34A little girl of four years old is now with her mother.
07:39That girl said I was her uncle.
07:42That one, that one.
07:44And he cut my beard, my mustache.
07:49Also a baby of one year old and all these red cheeks.
07:55Marel Bisparra Castellanos, nine years old, a little girl with very much strength.
08:05The boy, Eta Manuel Padilla, he is an artist.
08:10An artist.
08:11That little boy.
08:13Also, Miran Alejandro Salas Torres, four years old.
08:19He has so much energy.
08:23He's like a little earthquake.
08:25And a little girl of 12 years old, very tall, that used to live in Queens, New York.
08:33There she learned how to play basketball.
08:36And she was so happy.
08:38So happy.
08:40There was also Minister Hector Rodriguez.
08:44And the little girl is going to enter the first grade of, to learn how to play basketball.
08:54Salas Torres, 12 years old.
08:57There were their mothers, grandmothers, who formed this movement of mothers, grandmothers,
09:08and family members to rescue these little boys and girls.
09:13And yet there's still an important group that we are already working on their recovery,
09:21on their safe return with the U.S. government.
09:26And at the same time, we were there at the Miraflores Palace.
09:31That is why it was so late to come here.
09:34My apologies for making you waiting.
09:37But we were attending at that very same time.
09:51It was confirmed to me, the departure of two airplanes from the airport of El Salvador,
10:00because we have rescued from kidnapping and torture and disappearance in concentration camps of Bukele,
10:08252 Venezuelan citizens who were kidnapped in March.
10:18Now they are flying back home to Caracas.
10:22And in the upcoming minutes, they are going to land at the airport,
10:28Simon Bolivar Airport in Maiketiala White Estate.
10:31The United people will never be defeated. People are shouting.
10:36I compromise myself like this with the family members of those kidnapped 252 Venezuelans that committed no crime in El Salvador.
11:03They were kidnapped in the United States. They were disappeared, forced to disappear.
11:12They had no right to self-defense. They had no trial on El Salvador.
11:18They had no right to breach their lawyers. They had no right to a due process under no circumstances.
11:28They were kidnapped. And I compromised myself with their families and with all Venezuela that I was going to rescue them safe and sound.
11:41And they are already traveling towards Venezuela, where our beautiful homeland, free, safe, sound.
11:48So we are going, we are waiting, we are in contact with the Estado Cabello Rondon and with Jorge Rodriguez as well.
12:12He has been the architect and the conversations, the dialogue with the speakers of the United States government for achieving this new miracle.
12:22We have made a new miracle with the help of God and his blessings always God beforehand.
12:30With unity, mobilization of the people of Venezuela, with the faith in justice, we have rescued from the concentration camps and torture of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, these 252 Venezuelan citizens.
12:48The first testimonies they have been sharing is that they were brutally tortured in these concentration camps.
13:00We are bringing one of them who lost a kidney due to the beatings he suffered.
13:06Many of them were tortured in several opportunities.
13:11They were mistreated.
13:15They were fed whenever they wanted to be fed, those criminals.
13:23And they serve rotted food for them.
13:27For those first coming here, there is a special medical team waiting from Barrio Adentro Plan, waiting to attend them and perform a medical check for them, a full medical check.
13:45And to keep following their steps of the struggle for defense of migrants, Venezuelan migrants.
13:54To migrate is not a crime, kidnap and torture migrants.
14:00It is.
14:01It is a crime and Bukele knows this.
14:04Sooner rather than later, there will be justice for what he has done to these Venezuelans in those concentration camps and torture camps.
14:13So, we are going to be very attentive.
14:19Let me know.
14:24We have been calling for this Farmers' Congress for over one year.
14:32We saw each other one year ago in Barquisimeto.
14:35Is that correct?
14:37Well, we have many issues to keep moving forward.
14:41Now, we have been concentrating on three huge topics.
14:47And why do I say inaugural topics?
14:52Because we need the immense strength that we have on the field, political force on the countryside, social force, productive force, military, popular.
15:10The immense strength.
15:13We need to, in the first place, to unify it in a huge, powerful and democratic power and collective, diverse power.
15:27To unify it on the field, on the territory, to build the strength from the territory, to keep freeing, liberating the land and to produce even more of what we have been able to achieve today.
15:47With the revolution, the agrarian revolution of our commander Hugo Chavez and the law of land, famous law of lands that even led to a coup d'etat.
16:02The law of land of December, promulgated on December 2001.
16:09Do you remember?
16:11How many of you were present at that moment and remembered this promulgation of the law of lands?
16:19Here are the veterans, like Braulio, veteran of the farmer's struggle.
16:31You should be aware that many of you are leaders, social leaders, very young leaders, right?
16:40We are very young people, all of us.
16:43Some of us are young with an accumulated experience and others with an experience about to be accumulated.
16:55So this means that it is all about to be done and to be built.
17:03And I make a call to all the current tendencies, forces, movements of the immense days of peace and of the Bolivarian revolution.
17:15That as of today, July 18th, 2025, perfect day to kick off and begin a new path of reunification, of reconstruction of the new that is about to come.
17:31Three big lines of action.
17:46We have been working on this with our working team.
17:52Three big lines.
17:57The first one we could call it the Organizative Line, the Line of Strength, which is to go to the constitution of a powerful national movement that unifies the diversity of the peace movement.
18:24And to kick off, and I propose, ladies and gentlemen of countryside fields and labors, I propose this Congress, I propose, officially proposed, that as of July 18th to September 18th,
18:5160 days, 60 days, we give each other 60 days to organize a new unified force that I would call the Union, the National Farmers Union, Ezequiel Samora, a new union that gathers all of us, the currents, the forces, the farmers union, Ezequiel Samora.
19:17National Farmers Union, those who agree with this proposal that I have made before this Congress, please raise your hand.
19:35Put your hands down.
19:37Put your hands down.
19:39Those who are against, may I declare, I can declare approved by unanimity the construction in 60 days of the great National Farmers Union, Ezequiel Samora.
19:57It is born the National Farmers Union with the flag of Samora, long left to Samora, Samora on the forefront.
20:08And that National Farmers Union, not me, Julio Cesar León Heredia, Angel Comuna, that National Farmers Union must have its base, its foundation.
20:30So an article 4 of the land law of Chavez and an article 51 of the organic law of sovereignty, security and agro-food law that says that you should organize, it should be organized, the councils of farmers at a territorial level, a regional level in all, in the whole country.
20:58So we need to begin with the organization of the councils of farmers at the base, it should be the foundations of this new union Ezequiel Samora.
21:16Right, now let's see, EU because of union, national because of national, and C of farmers and Ezequiel, and C because of the power, farmers' power to prevail.
21:42I do this work for free. That's the first line, please make some notes. This is the organizational line for information organization at the base level of this union of farmers.
22:09And now we are going to need to articulate it, because I have another idea, but the second line, the line of the national plan of economy, of productive economy.
22:24We have been handing over, over 14 million hectares, 14 million hectares, that we need to finish the fact, finishing articulating them, those who have been, has not been articulated yet, Julio Cesar.
22:45But we need to make a national farmers' plan to progressively, and in an accelerated way, I also say this, to go to put that 14 million hectares of farmer land to be productive.
23:09Chavez gave you justice for those who work on that land, and that is going to be our people.
23:18There are several ways to put this land in motion, several alliances, but we need to think on a model, a productive model, for the farmers' councils.
23:32And that is when I have this new idea, that I was commenting it to Julio Cesar, once it is established, in 60 days, how many moons, how many councils have you made?
23:53What time runs fast?
23:54What time runs fast?
23:55The plan of economy, of productive economy, we could easily reunite, meet again on 60 days to make a balance, and I could find some resources for us to, once the farmers' councils is established,
24:18to put a date, to make a date, to make the assemblies, and you to prepare these new proposals, productive proposals, initiatives, and to do a national consultation to approve resources for every council, farmer council of the country,
24:43to apply the method, to apply the method, because you need, everyone has their needs.
24:58Here I have, for example, in the first place, what I just mentioned, to regularise those 14 million hectares, and keep handing over those lands who are on a list to be handed over.
25:19In a little while, we will have 164 hectares for over 1,000 titles of land that must be handed over immediately, Mr. Minister.
25:38Also, we need to organise the councils, and afterwards, we need to search for everything that has to be with the land production.
25:48What do we need to produce the land? Seeds, working machinery, bio supplements.
26:00So, you need to organise the farmers' councils in 60 days. So, in 60 days, we will make the first balance, and on September 18th, we will mark the date for the upcoming national consultation for the approval of resources, non-reverse of the productive initiatives.
26:23Correct.
26:36Correct. So, let's go piece by piece, part by part, and democratise the credits and financing of this issue.
26:47In this case, it would be a financing, like we do for the communal circuits in a national level. On Sunday, July 27th, we have the youth consultation.
27:00We need to go to the streets to vote to support the youth, and we are going to give them the financial for over 5,000 projects of the youth.
27:13And now, I have just guaranteed with the new governors, the financing of the second project, so we will be given almost 10 million, over 10 million financing resources of projects picked up by the youth, for the youth, and decided by the community vote on December, on July 27th.
27:42The second line is the economic productive plan. Let's not fail. We will not fail.
27:55I'm very sure this, Noah Cesar, everyone, that with this plan, I can see this with my very own eyes. Look that I have power, I have power. I have power. I can see ahead of me. I could take a lot of you and I do not need to use cards.
28:22And I do not need to use cards, not tobacco. I can see your future, that this powerful idiot of farmers, Ezequiel Zamora, in a very short term, I can set two years.
28:43We are going to be the great revolution, the great food productive revolution that is going to take Venezuela to the highest point of quality production of food for Latin America and the Caribbean and for the entire world.
28:59I can see exporting food. Venezuela is going to be a worldwide power of food production, a farmer union, organized union with the flags of Zamora, producing, producing,
29:22managing to turn the country into an independent product of technology with new methods, only with the people.
29:41Only the people saves the people. The people is the only one who can do this.
29:46We have an immense strong base ever since the commander Chavez believed in the farmer's movement and supported with all of his strength.
29:58And now we are vindicating one of the roots of a revolution. Ezequiel Zamora, he marks everything in the path in the course of this battle.
30:12Ezequiel Zamora, look how beautiful that placard is. Farmer's Council, there is Ezequiel Zamora in a multicolor way.
30:25They are up there. Cameraman, you should go more to the left. There, someone, Farmer's Council, someone was trying to block them.
30:41And to block the view. Cameraman should be oriented to focus on the placard. Can you see that? There. There, there. Ezequiel Zamora.
30:56Ezequiel Zamora in a multicolor way is coercing with all of his love and strength. Second line of the productive plan. And the third plan, the third line should be the defense, territorial defense, and also defense of the sovereignty, the national sovereignty.
31:14I have invited Major General General General, Chief Head of the Bolivarian Malaysia and all of his team, officials from the Bolivarian Malaysia, the youth.
31:37So we can prepare a plan of a high quality level for us in these 60 days to have that plan polished in a perfect way for the people, the farmer people, to have the
32:07with their arms and their hands. It is a beautiful task. Major General Romero Bolivar. It is the third line, the defense, the territorial defense and the defense of the sovereignty, the national sovereignty.
32:29The national sovereignty. Organized farmer, farmers with their families. Farmers, women and men producing and with their arms. The perfect formula. Boys, thank you. It is the perfect formula. The perfect union.
32:57The perfect union. Popular farmer and military. Like the constitution establishes. The constitution sets in a clear way that the security of the nation should be founded with responsibility between the state, the national armed forces.
33:22The fifth component. The fifth component. The fifth component. The Bolivarian Malaysia and the people in power. Organized.
33:31So we will be going to put the, the other side.
33:32The fourth component. That will process the balance. That is the whole line. It is our Bolivarian route and it is the foot upon Ezequiel Samora.
33:33The fourth component. The third component. The fourth component. The fifth component. It is our Bolivarian route.
33:38The fourth component. It is the route upon Ezequiel Samora build up its army.
33:43build up its army, victorious army in Santinés, the military and farmer unity and the union
33:52farmer, militia and people.
33:57There are three lines, three lines of work.
34:03So look over there.
34:16Here we have speakers.
34:20I can say that we are waiting the airplanes.
34:23The airplanes are very close of the Maicatilla airport and about to land with Venezuelans
34:29rescued from concentration camps of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.
34:39We have a speaker man and a speaker woman.
34:44We have from Portuguesa, from Araure, Carigua, to Maria Isabel Carrillo, Enrique, Maria Isabel, welcome.
35:06Greetings, my president.
35:11You may receive from these farmer people a greeting from Zamora people and Bolivarian people.
35:19We as farmers, we are here fulfilling a task, a historical task, that is the consolidation
35:27of this strength, farmers' strength, of this great confirmation of the Congress, of the
35:35farmers' Congress that allow us to, through unity, to have the greatest of success.
35:44Why unity?
35:46Because the unity is the slogan of a liberator, Simón Bolívar.
35:52Because unity is the slogan of our commander, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias.
36:02Because unity is the slogan that always is repeated by our president, Nicolás Maduro.
36:12And today we are here in a perfect unity with farmers, women and men.
36:19Why the organization?
36:21Because through the structure of the popular basis, we have managed to consolidate our great
36:29strength through the party.
36:31We have gone through all the different spaces of our territory and national territory, from
36:37the Alto Apure towards the Ezequivo, from Altos Mirandinos towards the Guaraná Peninsula,
36:48from the very deep of Guanabito towards our high of Altos Mirandinos that today we are sending
36:58a huge hug of solidarity because they have been victims of the consequences of climate change.
37:10Climate change and also consequences that allow us to, through the formation, not political
37:16formation but that shows the necessity of the political unity of our territory.
37:27We must form ourselves.
37:28It is important.
37:29It is important.
37:30Mr. President, we have seen for many years how you have been battling against all of the
37:48wars or economic wars imposed on venezuela and sanctions in electoral sanctions you have
37:55give back to us the foods of our of our country this farmer's strength has been firm in the
38:03defense of our country with the best that he knows to do which is stand tall for the people of
38:10venezuela here is the strong the strength of the venezuelan farmers people to be part of this
38:19farmers congress and we will have a better organization for our country long left to venezuela
38:27we will prevail
38:28at this moment we have we are seeing how president nicolas maduro is hugging and
38:41saluting marisabel enrique's representative of the farmer movement of the state of portuguesa
38:50president we need to highlight that this extraordinary day
38:54we are with this strength not just by the people but here it is a strength it is an extraordinary
39:06day we have been overwhelmed by the news you gave us the farmers women and men of the homeland are
39:15showing their capacity of the union president wants us to hold this act and we can do this farmers of
39:26the country we are of the size of the compromise that is presented to us
39:36in body and soul to face the challenges resident unity organization
39:43in the territory and with two huge tasks which is the production and the defense of the territory
39:51but also commander regarding the first line
39:54we were live to carecas venezuela we were listening to statements of president nicolas maduras he
40:24referred to this day as a perfect day for venezuelans as he he became and informed the people of the
40:33new back to the homeland airplane that is set to arrive in caracas venezuela with 252 venezuelan
40:40citizens who were kidnapped in salvadoran concentration camps this is a moral victory for venezuelans this is
40:46what the president said stay tuned with telesur english for all the information that we are going to keep
40:51giving and informing on everything that is about to happen in the country
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