Venezuela | People of Guayana City receive GPP’s candidate Nicolas Maduro
Special Envoy Yunus Soner from Venezuela provides details on the visit of the Great Patriotic Pole’s presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro to Guayana City, where he attended the premiere of a biopic on his life. teleSUR
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00:00And now for more details regarding Venezuela's campaign in time, as well as other key issues in the country.
00:06We'll receive Junus Sonner, our special envoy in Caracas.
00:10We welcome Junus.
00:12Hello. Hello, good afternoon from Caracas, from Venezuela.
00:16The campaign is going on.
00:19The campaign of President and candidate Nicolas Maduro is progressing fast.
00:26He has met yesterday, on Sunday, the basis of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the PSUV,
00:35and announced to them a new campaign method, which is one by ten by seven.
00:43That means each member of the party is called to contact ten other peoples
00:49and to convince them to vote for Maduro.
00:52That would tenfold the party's membership.
00:56And moreover, to convince seven of these ten people to convince others as well.
01:03Now, here's a magic number.
01:05Ten by seven is seventy.
01:08And seventy, that would have been the birthday of Comandante Hugo Chavez,
01:14his seventieth birthday, if he'd be alive, on July 28, the day of the election.
01:20So this is a huge mobilization campaign started by the governing PSUV
01:26to mobilize the basis, to mobilize the members for July 28.
01:31Later on, also on Sunday, Maduro visited the theater Teresa Carreño in downtown Caracas,
01:38where he attended the presentation of a biopic, let's say, on his biography,
01:45attended by hundreds of people.
01:47The theater was full. I was there too.
01:50And this is a biopic that describes Maduro's life from childhood until today,
01:58going over the most important stages in his growth, in his adulthood,
02:04including his meetings with Comandante Chavez, of course,
02:08how he chose to become a political activist or a politician,
02:12and how he endured repression from state apparatus in the Fourth Republic,
02:18how he organized laborers in the trade union, explained in detail.
02:23This documentary or biopic will be broadcast chapter by chapter every day.
02:29And Maduro, I found it very interesting.
02:32At the ceremony, he said, life has been hard, life has been intense,
02:37life has been beautiful, because it will be more beautiful in the future that is ahead of us.
02:44He presented himself very optimistic.
02:47Today, he visited the Bolivar State in South Venezuela,
02:52a state with huge companies that extract iron, that extract, that produce steel.
02:59There are hydro-electrical power plants there.
03:02And here the president and candidate reinstated that he will never privatize any of these key industries.
03:11This is a key issue in the presidential discussion,
03:14as oppositional candidates are expected to privatize not only these hydro-electrical plants, for instance,
03:23but also the oil industry, Venezuela's backbone in the economy.
03:29What do we have on the oppositional side?
03:31We have Javier Bertucci. He is an evangelical minister.
03:36He is the head of the Party of Change.
03:39And he met other ministers all over the country today to convince them to join his movement.
03:46He says his focus was on the economy.
03:49He said the economy will recover.
03:51And how will he do that?
03:53He said, I quote, by salvation and praying to Jesus.
03:59So, his political-economical program is based on actually belief, on religious belief.
04:08The other candidates were also active in different parts of the country,
04:13but they more held closed indoor meetings.
04:17One of them already criticized the other for having held a meeting in the central university of Venezuela
04:25and having thus violated the university's neutrality and autonomy.
04:30So, on the oppositional front, today was not a very big present day in regards to movements on the streets.
04:39Thank you, Yunus, for this complete report on what's going on in the campaigning
04:45and proselytizing activities time in Venezuela ahead of the July 28th elections.
04:50We will expect you in further broadcast missions.
04:55Thank you.