Caracas, September 19, 2023 (Press Mincomunas) – On Tuesday, the People’s Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza, shared a “Cafecito Militante” (militant coffee) with the Presidential Honor Guard Brigade (GHP) in a civic-military meeting favorable not only to honor Liberator Simon Bolivar’s memory and Commander Hugo Chavez’s legacy but also to evaluate the challenges and the historical dimension of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Throughout the activity, Minister Arreaza stressed that, unlike other revolutionary processes in the world, with their singularities and nuances, the Bolivarian Revolution is characterized by the fact that it relies on organized people.
“As Chavez intended, power is to serve the people through an obedient government to generate social happiness […] What characterizes the Bolivarian Revolution is that it has a People’s Power under construction”, he highlighted.
There have been 27,600 People’s Power elections in the country to date, said the Minister, and emphasized that “only in Venezuela do these processes take place. This democracy is the one we must take care of.
A great s”hield
For Brigadier General Crismarth Mavo, Commander of the Presidential Honor Guard Brigade, the Venezuelan people have shown the world that another development model is possible.
“We are the only country that has faced the most powerful country in the world, with a conscious people, with a noble homeland. We come from that people, are patriotic soldiers, and are on the front line of battle,” he expressed.
In this process, “the People’s Power is the greatest shield that Commander Chavez left for us. There is a great deal of work and enterprise to build from the popular bases the supreme dream, the greatest possible sum of happiness, that dream that our father Bolivar bequeathed us and that my Commander Chavez took up the flags again,” added the Brigadier General.
The civil-military union is what gives freedom to the people
From the independence deed led by the Liberator in the 19th century, Minister Arreaza rescued the fact that the one who accompanied Simon Bolivar to conquer the freedom of the peoples of the south was “the people in arms.”
“It is the civil-military union that gives freedom to the peoples, and that is what we have done in these years,” he emphasized.
“One sees a military and feels safe. They are present in the Mission Bases, in the social campaigns, in the construction of schools, distributing food to the people, building houses, fixing ravines,” he added.
Minister Arreaza ended his speech urging the military youth to give continuity and feel proud of the revolutionary process that Commander Chavez started, whose ideological foundation is in the Liberator Simon Bolivar’s postulates.
