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The head of the Unified Command of the Bolivarian Revolution, Jorge Rodriguez, in a press conference, announced the closure of the Ven25+ Campaign Command and also assured that the Venezuelan government will not rest until every child kidnapped in the USA is returned to his family in Venezuela. teleSUR
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00:00With the trust the Coyotes have given them from here, from that Venezuelan opposition,
00:12and from those there that made the lobby to accept migrants, and just are now urging
00:21for migrants to take them to El Salvador, and they barely know, they just separated the
00:31mother of Michaelis of her child, and the father was taken to Secot, and then what they did,
00:46Michaelis was taken to Guantanamo, and she was incarcerated in an ice prison, and Michaelis
01:01was just fostering from, and she received only mistreatment and not affection.
01:11Everything happened, and picture how a family suffers, and they did that with this young
01:22marriage, and this Michael was taken to Guantanamo, and there was so much pressure that they have
01:34to return those Venezuelans there in Guantanamo, and we were ready for them to land by storm,
01:45and stop them from taking here, and in a inhumane act they sent, they sent 252 men to that Secot,
02:02and it was the work of President Nicolás Maduro, and every day he asked for us to take care
02:13of those migrants of the situation of them, and then it appeared the issue of those Venezuelan
02:21children detained in the United States of America. Once they were five, and then there were seven,
02:30and President Nicolás Maduro said, if that happened with Michaelis, then there would be more.
02:39Then it appeared to be six, then 12, and then 18, and now 31, and we are sure that there are more.
02:50And on Sunday, we hope in this process of dialogue with the United States of America, we hope for a negotiation
03:02and a coordination to return those children. And on Friday, the first seven arrived with Michaelis.
03:14We've got eight returned, and we are convinced that we won't rest, and we are convinced that till the last child
03:27that is in the United States of America meets its family here in Venezuela, we will continue pressing,
03:37and we will continue calling all U.S. officials. That's the expression of this Venezuela, of this new Venezuela
03:49Venezuela that awaits us. The Venezuela that is on the popular wheel, the Venezuela that solves its problems
04:03without any foreign intervention or company intervention, because we learned how to do things by ourselves.
04:15We learned how to recover our economy, how to recover our oil production, and we learned how to recover our people kidnapped.
04:25So on Sunday, July 28th elections will be the expression of the new era.
04:32We deserve the new era of prosperity and recovery of the welfare that so much of Hugo Chavez was seeking.
04:44And it was working because the people that sort out problems that resist on the pandemic, the people that struggle on sanctions, and we deserve this.
05:01As of tomorrow, the great forces of our Bolivarian revolution will close the electoral campaigns in all municipalities of the country, and we will continue till Sunday, because we are able to do it.
05:20It is in the regulation of the elections. We will promote the projects of the youth that will be selected on Sunday.
05:33We've got good news to share with you, beyond outreach, because, Bukele, you will pay for your crimes sooner than later.
05:46To God, you will pay, but to men, you will pay sooner than later.
05:57But, well, good news, because we recovered them, we recovered the 252 migrants, and we recovered, we rescued eight children, and we are going to win the 135 municipal mayorships, and we will win.
06:22I was in Lecheria, and we will win Lecheria in the Swategui State, and we will win on all municipalities, because people may think differently, or live in their own Cosmovision, and share with their neighbors, but this is an agreement of lazy people,
06:51lazy people that only appear in elections, and that right candidate, we don't just, how can you elect a mayor to, that only makes the streets dirty with all those propaganda,
07:18because, because, why didn't they appear when the torrential rains devastated the towns in Santa Monica, why they didn't appear in Baruta's town, and in those popular towns of Baruta, or those farmers' sectors, they don't go there,
07:44and we will win.
07:45And we will win in the 135 municipalities, and with a lot of pleasure, we will answer all questions.
07:54And tomorrow, and tomorrow, we will be launching the campaign, and we will be celebrating the birth of Liberator Simon Bolivar, and we will celebrate the day of the armed forces, of the Bolivarian armed forces, because there will be the acts and activities of celebration, and in Caracas, the Bank of Caracas will be headed,
08:22will be headed by Mayores, Mr. Andres Dia, hi, how are you doing? Well, several, it's true. Several questions, coordinator. The Unitary Platform has said that they hope to have real conditions to participate in any electoral process.
08:50I would like to comment on this, number two, about this process of negotiations that changed on Friday. To know what was the position of Marco Rubio, if you talked directly with him, or what was the post of Richard Grenet.
09:09Yesterday, there was news. Maria Corina Machado questioned the aid that could have Rodriguez Zapatero in this process of dialogue. If you comment on this, if there is an economic interest, and if you've got some comments on all this.
09:29Well, it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. That Unitary Platform, what is that? They dissolve themselves. Go and question some of them. Question Manuel Rosales, Enrique Capriles.
09:49Yes, it doesn't exist anymore. Goodbye. And the third question, it doesn't exist. It is a clear intention to see which thing they, to see that they name, to see that we name them.
10:10But forget about that. But forget about that. They could say anything they want, but they are ghosts. They don't exist anymore.
10:17The U.S. They were done. The gringos, they say it in English. We have to look for others for spreading plot and conspiration damage.
10:47And the other thing is, it's absolutely passed. Well, the second question. We always negotiate with the U.S. government. We don't mess with the game of Trump.
11:07We don't mess with the game of Trump. That's not our business. The one who comes on behalf of the U.S. government with courtesy, we receive them, and we speak in an honest way, and we have spoken with everyone that you mentioned,
11:34and we've got some, we have held some conversations, and in the case of, conversations initiated on Monday, and then what we heard on Sunday, we've got a meeting with President Maduro,
11:50when we heard that they were taking the 252 migrants to Secot, and then we could investigate some names of the person that was, that was a polypopular hairstyle person,
12:17and the humanity knew about the concentration camps of extermination. And so we began to design a proposal for this swap, for this humanitarian exchange. And as President Maduro said,
12:40we paid we paid an expensive price because Venezuela has a constitution, a state of law, and if a foreigner comes here in his will to assassinate, to blow off refineries, the National Electoral Council to assassinate the President and Vice President,
13:02then we must take care for the peace of the Republic, but abided by the state of law. All those people had a trial judge that was there, an attorney general, a lawyer, and to the young people in El Salvador,
13:29they didn't allow their lawyers to see them. They didn't allow the Cardinal. And we really appreciate the work done by the Cardinal, and we appreciate the work done by the Pope Leo, that his hand was there interceding for our voice.
13:48And they didn't allow the Cardinal, and they didn't allow the Cardinal, and they didn't allow the Cardinal, and they didn't allow to see their families.
13:55And on their testimonies, when the, the, the, the, the Bukele's, uh, puppets, uh, come, come there to, to Secot, the, see them, uh, they bave the prisoners to, for those senators to see them clean.
14:16And that's the truth. They didn't know even the day it was because all the time they were with the light, with the lamp.
14:25And, you know, the consequences that, that this generates to keep a person with only an artificial light, that they just load the serotonin into serum.
14:43And so they were tortured psychologically. They suffered every kind of torture. They've got the, the marks. What's gonna say, Bukele, about those violations? And those testimonies are going to be registered. And you bastard, you will pay for all those crimes.
15:04There was no due process beginning, because they, those 252 Venezuelans didn't visit Salvador ever. And so they didn't have any crimes. They, they didn't commit any crimes there.
15:30And if we have to pay the cost that it implies to exchange those criminals, terrorists that come here in Venezuela to harm Venezuela, to generate violence, that narrative that they were tourists, that they come here to get married, but on their phones they didn't appear.
16:00And on their phones there was no messages about any marriage, only plans and conversations to bring explosives.
16:11Those were the messages they had on the cell phones.
16:18And President Maduro said, we don't let our people behind so any price we would have to pay.
16:27And that was what happened.
16:30We were ready around a month ago and suddenly there were some odd incidences that I'm not going to refer to it, but some prepared actions.
16:50But we've got, we are a people of one world and that's the proposal that we approved and we stick to it.
16:59Well, then we will wait for it.
17:03Then we were ready to do the exchange on Thursday, but something odd came up and then it wasn't be able to do it on Thursday.
17:20Then on Wednesday, we have interrupted conversations around 11 p.m.
17:28And then on Thursday, 8 a.m., conversations begin, resume.
17:34Then on Thursday, 8 a.m.
17:35And we, we lasted the conversations till Friday at noon.
17:47And the, the things that, while, while it was arriving the plane of the seven children, we were coordinating with those U.S. officials that the plane with those terrorists arrived to the United States and that our 252 compatriots arrived here in Venezuela.
18:14And all that was, was held simultaneously because when it was already agreed, when our compatriots were on the Venezuelan planes and on, on those.
18:30And then there were two trucks to enable the Venezuelan, the, the, the planes of the Venezuelans land of, and so pilots were suffocated by heat because they didn't allow to, to turn off the engines.
18:51And, and that action almost aborted the operation.
18:58And that action of Bukele just reveals the garbage that he is.
19:09And when we were about, we were about, we were about to abort the mission, someone called Bukele and, and then, um, scalded him, scalded him.
19:24And so then the, the engines were turned off.
19:28And then the, or both the two planes, the two planes just landed off simultaneously as, as we know that Bukele was a rat.
19:44We breathed at ease when those, uh, when the plane just, uh, landed off, um, because there were just 27 minutes, uh, to arrive here to Venezuela.
20:01Nice afternoon.
20:04Two questions.
20:05Uh, I would like to know about the account, uh, the work done by deputies, uh, in those territories affected by the race.
20:19What are the message messages to be taken to, for the electoral campaign?
20:26How do you see the environmental, the electoral environment?
20:31Uh, so most of the agenda has been complied with, uh, what can you see as, what, what can you see about the participation and about the, how can you promote the participation of youngsters?
20:48Understanding that these are joint elections for the youth projects.
20:53And besides the, the, the people just elects, uh, um, councils and mayors.
21:00Well, I am not sure that we human beings in this case of Venezuela's realize when we are making history, because these elections on July 28th, Sunday, it is not a regular election.
21:20It is not an election that the Venezuelan people is used to because for the first time, two ways of seeing democracy on one side.
21:35The representative democracy, the democracy that has to be replaced by a real democracy, which are the elections for mayors and counselors.
21:48But, uh, uh, even the, the, the, the figure that we were dragging, dragging down scenes, uh, we, we make a twist of the way of seeing that the electoral campaigns, that, that people do not stick propaganda and much less the order that we receive.
22:17We receive that someone could make a campaign in the source of disasters that have been generated important damages in infrastructure and houses in the Western part of the country.
22:36And you see those deputies, those, uh, candidates were helping governors on the disaster and assisting people that were the, the promises, the people that solve problems that we want to congratulate because they let aside the electoral campaign.
23:01And our candidates went there to the towns with the people that most need them.
23:09So it has been very fruitful because it has been an electoral campaign.
23:13I mean, I, for example, I, for example, it seems to me very curious because we were on the lecheria in the Simone Bolivar Avenue with the candidate of the Bolivarian Revolution.
23:25And then I, we watched, uh, the cars pass by and we were there driving.
23:35And to think, uh, there has to be a change.
23:43I am from the opposition, but the candidate of the opposition is a lazy one.
23:48And so they say that they, they, they said that, and it was a campaign, which is directly made with the people, uh, who's gonna, a farmer, a farmer, what is gonna prefer?
24:09He's gonna prefer the one that assists the people, the one that shows problems with the people.
24:16And I think that the electoral environment is better than ever because it is the other part of democracy, of the new democracy that converges.
24:26And it's going to be experienced next Sunday for the first time of the history of Venezuela, all polling stations are conducted through the secret vote of the people for the people to elect their own projects of the youth, of the Venezuelan youth.
24:47And so we are going to elect our mayor and councilors and we are going to elect the youth projects, the same that happened with the migrants rescued.
25:04And so, and so, so we will, we will working for a more direct democracy and this, and the future generations will say, well, and this began with the consultations and with, um, the, the, the great beginning was the,
25:31the, the, the youth elections on July 27th on Sunday.
25:41So few countries of the world could have faith of an unelectoral process without any violence, without any incident, with absolute freedom of, um, candidates that could,
25:59their campaign freely mention me one country, including the United States that have a situation of peace, of everlasting peace.
26:12That is the, the perfect grounds for the electoral campaign.
26:18Good afternoon.
26:19Good afternoon.
26:20Three questions.
26:21So you went to the beach.
26:22No, not yet.
26:23Opposition sectors have said that the electoral campaign has been very weak and that on the streets, citizens are not participating in these elections.
26:43And what's your position about the, about this, they have been weak all their lives.
26:52They are very weak.
26:54Secondly, in psychoanalysis, they, it is, um, that is named projection.
27:05They are, they are weak.
27:09They don't go out to the streets and they paid because we know who, who company, what company they hired because they are lazy ones.
27:27How many activities do you have daily?
27:32Did you, did you go to the 22 parishes?
27:37350 activities, not only of campaign, but of management of, uh, medical assistance.
27:48And you, you tell me that if a person that hasn't done any activity, who's the weak one.
27:57And secondly, what's the opinion of the command of the, uh, leader Cesar Perez-Hivas that highlighted that the release of the 252 Venezuelans and the children in the United States was used as a political strategy ahead of the elections.
28:17What, as it was actually, um, diplomat and humanitarian action.
28:25Why are you sure to win the elections in those opposition municipalities?
28:32Even Gustavo Duque has said that he's gonna win on that municipality.
28:39What would you say about it?
28:42Well, that, that fat, fat candidate, uh, well, well, I am not going to, to give any comments on, on this because this is very, what I have to say is that at some point, history will make them pay.
29:10The use of those, uh, human beings, because it was convenient for them to, uh, all that, uh, process that was, uh, with migration against the Bolivarian government.
29:28And then it appears the, uh, racism, misogyny, misogyny, misogyny and the opposition against Venezuela, Venezuela's many of the, of the ones that were taken to, to El Salvador.
29:46They just, they, they, so they thought to, to, to find something different, but they were the ones that promoted all this.
30:00So they dare to say that we were a disease, uh, that Venezuelans were a plague, a disease, and you see the, the statements they provided.
30:14And I am not, I am not, I am not going to mention them because they are, they don't deserve it.
30:23And they said, they said that they agreed on taking those criminals to El Cicot, to El Cicot.
30:32And, uh, we now, and, and they are gonna know what those Venezuelans have gone through.
30:45And it is already known that they didn't commit any crimes in El Salvador.
30:50And, and the only crime they committed was to be a migrant and Venezuelan in the United States.
30:57They don't have any criminal records in Venezuela.
31:02Uh, even one was a very popular worker in Los Angeles, California.
31:12And then there was some actions of the LGTQB plus in California claiming, and the only reason they were arrested, it was that they had tattoos on their body, on their bodies.
31:38What's, what's, what's the legal grounds on the, having chosen tattoo and some being imprisoned for it?
31:48So those are lies.
31:51And those who profited because there were billions of dollars, the families of those boys arriving said to us, okay.
32:07Okay.
32:08And then the picture, imagine that.
32:14So think about it, that all those criminals just were involved with Nayib Bukele.
32:26Signed this paper and said that you, so all, 100% of the family members of the migrants told us that the paparoni, the, all those,
32:48all those opposites, the coyotes, Leopoldo, that's the truth.
32:58And then when testimonies appear, all they have to pay for all their crimes about the, the fat candidates.
33:12Well, because we work and the people in Venezuela currently, people in Venezuela are, are not believing in, in fake news.
33:30And that the house defends itself that why didn't you say so lazy in the four years or in the eight years that you've got as a mayor.
33:45Tell me a work in Baruta, a single one, 20 seconds to see.
33:53All works, all social works, all embellishment works in Baruta, in Chacao, Beratillo.
34:12In Urbaneja, the 100% have been done by the Bolivarian government.
34:24That's why we will win them.
34:27People are tired.
34:30People said, enough, let's try it with these people that is, are here that knock on our doors, concerned how, how things are, are doing.
34:45And so they, they only is take some propaganda and hire some Mexican entrepreneur to, to frighten people.
34:53And so let's vote for Chavistas, for my house to be painted, for schools to be pretty, for.
35:08So, and the first thing that our mayors will do in Baruta, Chacao, the, on Monday, July 28th, is to withdraw all the propaganda of those fat candidates in that, in those municipalities.
35:27We were listening to the statements of Jorge Rodriguez, the head of the Ben 25 Plus Campaign Command, as he was offering a press briefing.
35:37He was referring to the denunciations of the hideous crimes that were committed against the Venezuelan migrants that had been kidnapped in El Salvador for over a month.
35:45Venezuelan migrants that were returned to their families to Venezuela last Friday.
35:50He was announcing all the crimes that were committed, the mistreatment, the tortures to which they were submitted,
35:54and making clear that all those responsible for those hideous crimes would pay the price justice would be served in those cases.
36:02He was also referring to the current campaign that is being held ahead of the July 27th municipal elections,
36:08as well as the consultation of youth, of the youth programs, something that Jorge Rodriguez said that it was a first in Venezuelan history
36:17and that would mark the beginning of a new, more real and true democracy, saying that tomorrow, Tuesday, all campaigns will close
36:24and that the country was ready for the great victory to take place on Sunday,
36:28and that the electoral campaign, the electoral environment in the country is as best as it has ever been.
36:35Those were the statements that were coming from Jorge Rodriguez.
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