Sam McGill, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain analyzes what's coming for Venezuela during the 2025-2031 mandate of President Nicolás Maduro.
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00:00I support Venezuela because, you know, every week I'm getting, I'm able to access food,
00:05you know, we are receiving the clap bags several times a month.
00:11You know, people were telling us their experience as women,
00:14their experience as children, there were children on the streets shouting,
00:18Vamos Nico! I said, why do you support Nicolas Maduro?
00:21And they're saying, he's my president.
00:23Because of him, you know, I have a future in my education.
00:26I can go to university if I want to.
00:29So I think it's really important to be on the streets with people,
00:33to share that sense of participation,
00:38to share that sense that this movement does not belong to one person,
00:43does not belong to Nicolas Maduro.
00:44And he's the first person that says that.
00:46He's saying that this is the people's revolutionary process.
00:50This is the people's Bolivarian revolutionary movement.
00:54And the National Assembly, the swearing in that happened yesterday,
00:59belongs to the Chavista people.
01:00And yesterday, Caracas belonged to the Chavista people.
01:04And although I wasn't there, I've seen the photographs of people
01:09mobilizing on the streets in all of the cities around Venezuela.
01:13This wasn't just about Caracas.
01:15There were hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Venezuela yesterday
01:19supporting the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro.
01:22And so when papers like The Guardian say, you know,
01:27that Maduro has lost the streets,
01:29or that the inauguration was sparsely populated,
01:32they are making those people invisible.
01:35They are ignoring huge sections of Venezuelan society,
01:39like they don't mean anything to the media in our country.
01:44So it's important for us to fight the media war against Venezuela.
01:49This is our, you know, number one focus.
01:52And we regularly have protests outside of The Guardian.
01:55We're having one on the 15th in London this month, in a few days' time.
02:00And because we have to challenge their lies.
02:03You know, we know the lies of the right-wing media.
02:06But the problem is, is that The Guardian poses as a left voice.
02:10It poses as a liberal voice.
02:13And so it creates so much confusion amongst the people,
02:18you know, people who consider themselves as left,
02:21or consider themselves as, you know, socially conscientious.
02:25It creates all this confusion.
02:26So this is why we have to challenge these newspapers,
02:31these media outlets, and we have to fight the media war.
02:33It is part of fighting the blockade against Venezuela,
02:36is fighting the media war.