Caracas, October 20, 2023 (Press Mincomunas) – On Friday, in a massive act with community members from all over the country to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Rudder Around (Golpe de Timón), President Nicolas Maduro approved 348,665,020 bolivars to 43 Communal Economic Circuits, to promote the projects supported at the grassroots level and thus continue adding to the consolidation of the Communes as an autonomous power.
“Everything that enters the national income will go directly to the Communal Economic Circuits, to those that exist and to those that we are about to create,” said the President at the Poliedro de Caracas in La Rinconada.
Likewise, he announced the creation of the “Hecho en Comuna” corporation to finance and technically support the whole economic process of communal production. Meanwhile, he instructed to design an optimal system to ensure the National Program of Public Procurement and the Commune production could be acquired by the Venezuelan State.
Also present at the event, the Vice-President of the Republic, Delcy Rodriguez, detailed that 130 community projects of the 1×10 Good Government system will be financed, like electricity, gas, water, environment, and housing.
She pointed out that, as from the creation of the Commission for the Transfer of Competences to the People’s Power, “ordering the transfer to the People’s Power of 16 industrial plants is being, of which two will activate for the first time, seven will reactivate, and six will improve”.
The transfer of 48 Mercal and PDVAL premises was also authorized to reactivate them as stores to continue strengthening the organization’s work and empowerment of the People’s Power.
According to the assessment of the high official, the Communes are capable of producing food to live by and helping the national economy, even “taking over the industrialization process of all the products that we produce in all parts of Venezuela.”
Renewal of spokespersons
In the act to celebrate a new anniversary of the Coup de Timon, in which Commander Chávez oriented 11 years ago: “Commune or nothing,” in allusion to the fact that without the popular organization, it would not be possible to give birth to his project of Bolivarian socialism, President Nicolás Maduro informed that out of the 49 thousand Communal Councils existing in Venezuela, 32 thousand 500 have already held their elections directly, secretly and with the support of the National Electoral Council (CNE), with 1 million 300 thousand updated spokespersons.
The President highlighted that in the elections of Communal Councils this year in 132 of the 335 municipalities of the country, “registering more electoral participation than in the last elections for mayors and governors in 2021”.
The Chief of State celebrated the National Day of the Communes together with the community members, recalling that 11 years ago, Commander Chávez gave precise guidelines and orders to follow the right path of history.
He pointed out that, precisely, the contribution of Commander Hugo Chavez to the universal theory of socialism, as a current of change, “is the concept of socialism in the territorial, in the communal, in the neighborhood, in the community.”
The dignitary reminded that the first step of socialism in the territorial sphere is direct democracy, “empowering the people, giving power to the people. The power of consciousness, education, projects, resources, action, problem-solving”.
In this regard, the People’s Power Minister for the Communes and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza, endorsed this achievement, pointing out that true democracy is exercised in the Communes, “here are the spokesmen and spokeswomen that truly exist in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
Socialism in the territorial sphere
President Maduro urged to build socialism in the territorial, organizational, and political spheres to strengthen the capacity for announcement, the permanent debate in education, and political, ideological, and cultural formation.
The spokeswoman of the “Carlos Escarra” Commune in the Mario Briceño Iragorry municipality of Aragua, Alejandra Borges Castillo, explained to the President that she learns every day. “We did not know of any of this. However, today, you can ask us: What is this for? Well, this is a connector for the arvidal, what we always call it – Look, the wire broke – No, it is not the wire, it is the line, which has its name, and it is called arvidal”, she said.
In this sense, the President applauded the growth of the Communes and called on his entire team to continue working for and with the people, reaching all communities to provide timely solutions.
“We must solve them with the proposals that come from the grassroots, from the street leadership, listening to the people,” emphasized the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Read below the full speech of President Nicolas Maduro.
