President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, gives a speech in the closing act of the Anti-Fascist Youth & Students World Congress. teleSUR
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00:00and the concept of persistence, and the concept of building
00:04the future, a great international youth
00:10and students anti-fascist movement,
00:15and for the new world to be built.
00:23Yes, a new world that should integrate diversity of ideas,
00:28the dreams of humanity.
00:31Fidel Castro said to Commander Hugo Chavez 30 years ago,
00:42on December 14, 1994, and I remember that
00:49because ALBA was founded 20 years ago,
00:54and the first time these two leaders held each other,
00:59embraced each other, it was back then,
01:05an anniversary that we will celebrate soon.
01:08And Commander Fidel Castro said in Havana University,
01:14in the Great Hall, the Magna Hall, he said,
01:25he invited Chavez to speak to professors.
01:30Chavez, who had just turned 40, he
01:36had turned 40 in Bogota, in Colombia.
01:39When he exited jail, he went to celebrate his freedom
01:44in Colombia.
01:48We say hello to President Gustavo Petro
01:51and to everyone in Colombia, the whole people of Colombia.
01:56So 30 years ago, Chavez celebrated his birthday
02:02in Colombia.
02:04And Petro was present there.
02:05He was very young.
02:09And then on December, he traveled to Havana,
02:16invited by the research Simon Bolivar Institution.
02:20Fidel invited him to speak at the Magna
02:24Hall of the university.
02:29He was wearing his uniform, his green uniform.
02:35When we walk the streets of Venezuela,
02:38remember, Celia?
02:43And Chavez spoke with the way he saw the future.
02:57And after Chavez exposed his idea of the future,
03:00Fidel Castro said, I'm impressed by your words, Chavez.
03:08They were getting to know each other physically
03:10on that occasion.
03:11And he said to Chavez, it was 1994.
03:21The social bloc, the Soviet republics had collapsed.
03:33And there was a unipolar world.
03:38In Washington, they were drunken with power
03:42because they had no opposition in the world.
03:48It happens sometimes.
03:56They sometimes believe they are the owners of the world.
04:01And Fidel Castro said, a living legend of world revolution
04:09said to Chavez, all of those beautiful ideas
04:15that you have about the future of humanity,
04:18I agree with that.
04:23We in Cuba, we call it socialism.
04:31But if you call that Christianism, I would agree.
04:37And if you call it Bolivarianism,
04:43I agree, because that's the future of humanity.
04:46And you can name it whichever way
04:48you want regarding taking into account your spirituality
04:53and way of life.
05:01We should gather, like the Chinese president Xi Jinping
05:08said, we need to build a humanity of a shared destiny,
05:16or how President Putin says, a new world
05:21without any hegemonies, nor empires, nor wars.
05:30Or as Chavez said back in 1994 when he was 40,
05:40our beloved Commander Chavez, when he said in Venezuela,
05:46and he said in Havana 30 years ago,
05:53he said, Fidel, the 21st century would be our century,
06:02would be the century of the peoples.
06:06So this is our century.
06:08And no one will take the 21st century,
06:13which we have conquered with a lot of effort from us.
06:19So congratulations, because today in Venezuela,
06:23a great youth student anti-fascist movement
06:27has been born for the new world.
06:29Congratulations.