Caracas, July 26, 2023. Press Mincomunas/Karina Depablos – This Wednesday, the Vice Minister for the System of Communal Formation and Social Movements, Lidice Altuve, assured that Venezuela has a historic challenge that consists in re-dimensioning the formation experienced by the organized popular power.
“In 23 years of the Bolivarian Revolution, of experiences of Government management in the community, training has emerged as a permanent need. The territorialization of training means that education is not in a building but grows in the territories in the community. We have made progress with training centers throughout the country. They are spaces where communities meet. There is a meeting of knowledge. The production of knowledge and training in the communities is a collective fact, and we recognize and support it,” he said.
During his participation in the radio program En clave comunal, broadcast by Radio Nacional de Venezuela, Altuve explained that, since 2016, the Bolivarian Government promoted the creation of institutions such as the Escuela de Fortalecimiento del Poder Popular to facilitate, accompany and enhance community management and collective work in the territories.
“The same collective practice has driven us to create a new Vice-Ministry for the System of Communal Training and Social Movements that exercises the steering role in training policies terms. But this popular training must be useful, accompany community needs and generate alternative solutions collectively. We are not starting this process today. There is an accumulation of collective experiences in training. The Bolivarian Revolution has spaces and instances dedicated to accompanying the formation of popular power from the ethical, Robinsonian, transforming connotation of not protecting popular power, but making it visible and recognizing it”, expressed the spokeswoman.
The deputy minister added that Venezuela has multiple training nuclei, in which the people organize, plan, and develop their training plans and programs with institutional support.
“The instances of the people’s power not only work in formal education but in the needs of an integral, socio-political, technical education that strengthens the community fabric. That is why we say that it’s not supervised education. It is not interventionism: it is an approach where we recognize others as equals. What the institutions do is accompany the needs of the communities. We will recognize knowledge that has been there in the community for generations. In this dialogue with the institutions, we support and promote the work of each territory”, he pointed out.
Altuve added the School for the Strengthening of Popular Power currently focuses on the facilitator’s systematization of community experiences to multiply the training process and program contents.
“We are searching for these community members, community women, village teachers, leaders, and women leaders. We keep building a large training network. We have 24 state training cabinets to integrate the policy, accompany a route and follow an articulated training strategy based on the real needs of the people. These people have never given up and are looking for their tools. We support them. As President Maduro said: we will form legitimate leadership with the capacity to govern to reproduce life! That is the goal. That is where we are going”, he emphasized.
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