Press Mincomunas/Karina Depablos – In the framework of the strategic alliance between the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil and the People’s Power Ministry for Communes and Social Movements, 39 young Venezuelans arrived at the Josue de Castro Education Institute in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to begin a training workshop on organizational processes, agro-ecological production of priority crops, seed control and management of agricultural cooperatives.
According to Mayerlin Colmenarez, general director of Integration and International Affairs of the Ministry of Communes, this young group, with an average age of 25 years, are community leaders and active participants of popular organizations in 13 states of the country.
“These young people, 13 women, and 26 men, are not the traditional historical spokespersons; They are Bolivar and Chavez’s project’s continuity generation. They represent: Anzoategui, Apure, Barinas, Distrito Capital, Guarico, Lara, Miranda, Portuguesa, Merida, Sucre, Trujillo, and Yaracuy. From the Landless Rural Workers Movement members, our young people will attend a theoretical-practical training program focused on strengthening the popular causes to advance in the cutting dependence and vulnerability process against the capitalist model,” he said.
Colmenarez indicated that the workshop of the Landless Rural Workers Movement developed at the Josue de Castro Education Institute in Viamão (Rio Grande do Sul) has theoretical stages (45 days) as well as practical experience stages in social enterprises of the MST (60 days).
“The course is organized in two stages, school-time and community time, and a final evaluation seminar. The boys and girls will receive training on very many topics, such as the capitalist mode of production structure and functioning, the labor organization in human history, the role of agriculture in the process of capital accumulation, agro-ecological systems (structure, dynamics, and functioning), cooperation and cooperative experiences in Brazil and the MST, agro-industrial technologies, commercialization, markets, and planning,” he detailed.
Colmenarez stressed that this group of young Venezuelans also arrived in Brazil as an internationalist brigade to spread the substantive advances of Venezuela’s communal project.
“This exchange is highly relevant. Our young people highlighted that they didn’t just go to Brazil to be trained but to share part of what they have learned, what they are in the territories, and what the Venezuelan people’s power is. We are proud because we put a training and support team together from the People’s Power School, the Office of the Vice-Minister of Communal Economy, and the Directorate of Integration and International Affairs and managed to send a well-prepared group of young people who were able to combine their territorial experience with the new vision of producing for life”, he pointed out.
Likewise, the Director of Integration and International Affairs added when they return to Venezuela, these young people in training will carry out a process of systematization of the experiences they lived in Brazil, as well as a collective analysis of the practices, to share and multiply the knowledge in Bolivarian territory.
