TeleSUR Special Envoy Belén de los Santos gives us the details from the culmination of this event, which was held from November 14-17 in Caracas, Venezuela.
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00:00Hello, you're watching Terrestrial English.
00:05On Sunday, the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro led the closing ceremony for the National
00:10Congress of the Bolivarian Historical Bloc.
00:13Our special envoy in Caracas, Belén de los Santos, has the details.
00:17We're here in Caracas in the mountains barrack, a historical site of the Venezuelan capital.
00:24And this is truly a popular party around us, because this is the closure of the Grand Congress
00:30of the Historical Bolivarian Bloc, the Congress that has been underway in Caracas for the
00:36past three days.
00:37But it's the culmination of a process, a broader process, that involved 101,000 assemblies
00:44around the country, and the delegates came here to discuss their plan.
00:48And at this closure, this important event, President Nicolás Maduro has just addressed
00:53the delegates, giving him his opinions about this whole process, this event.
00:59Also, the President was handed over the proposals that the delegates brought from their territories,
01:06discussed here in this Congress regarding the seven key transformations that will lead
01:12the Venezuelan path, the road map for the future.
01:16So these proposals that were truly debated among the territories, among the assemblies
01:21and brought by the delegates, these proposals were handed to Nicolás Maduro, who now received
01:27them, processed them, and he announced that with these proposals, the government plan
01:34for the coming years is now done.
01:36Venezuela has a new government plan that will be presented to the National Assembly once
01:42President Nicolás Maduro is inaugurated for his new term in office, and this is a government
01:47plan that has been written by the people.
01:50That is the significant part of this process.
01:53It means a new instance of democracy, a very innovative form of democracy that involves
02:00the design of a government plan by the people in every territory.
02:05So that is one of the things.
02:07Among the highlights of the speech that President Nicolás Maduro had here in Caracas was the
02:12importance of theoretical thought.
02:14One of the points of the Congress for the past day was the reasoning over and reflection
02:21over the concept of the historical bloc and the importance of formation and the importance
02:27of theoretical thought for all the militants to really comprehend what this historical
02:33moment entails and what the defense of the Bolivarian Revolution represents.
02:39So the reflection and historical thought, the also popular participation, those are
02:45the two key elements of this process that were highlighted and underscored by President
02:52Nicolás Maduro, who also said that the world is at a turning point, and Venezuela with
02:57this process is at the forefront of that battle against imperialism, and that is what is happening
03:03here today.
03:04That is what the delegates are celebrating around us, and we will continue bringing all
03:08the information from here, from Caracas, Venezuela.
03:13Thank you Belén for the report.
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