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*The National Assembly of Venezuela approved a draft agreement to support Acting President Delcy Rodriguez as she is in New York for the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly 81st session.
*Venezuelan Acting President Rodriguez met with Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. teleSUR
*Venezuelan Acting President Rodriguez met with Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. teleSUR
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00:00:02We're going live to Caracas, Venezuela with the National Assembly.
00:00:06Let's listen to what is happening.
00:00:11It's impossible not to see what's happened to this in Venezuela.
00:00:15The streets of our country are filled with beautiful people
00:00:19rallying in support of the first women
00:00:23exercising as acting president that today will speak with the United Nations.
00:00:32All Venezuelans are today on the streets supporting our acting president,
00:00:38and those with Rodriguez.
00:00:54We are supporting the acting president
00:00:58because this rally not only signifies the respect to our constitutions
00:01:03and our laws and our republic, but it is also without doubt
00:01:09a great triumph of the Bolivarian diplomacy of peace.
00:01:16We are listening to the United Nations, the voice of our people that has
00:01:21their own signature, that has a way of government that we have built together.
00:01:29That today no one can, not tonight after everything that we have lived
00:01:34in this year, is a democratic participatory democracy.
00:01:47Also, in the face of a scenario here at the UN General Assembly,
00:01:57leaders from different regions have gone there with different circumstances,
00:02:04and it's a very complex, very difficult moment in which threats on human life
00:02:15is on the negotiating table.
00:02:19And when I say that the people that today rallies in support of the acting president
00:02:25does it as a thank you, it is because today Venezuela is not at war.
00:02:30Venezuela is not filled with blood.
00:02:32It's not the stage of a war that would have faced brothers against each other,
00:02:38as in many occasions was tried to do.
00:02:40As in many occasions so many people insisted that there was war in Venezuela.
00:02:50Venezuela doesn't have streets filled with death or hate.
00:02:54On the contrary, today Venezuela streets are filled with life, hope, planning, dialogue.
00:03:06Those that stay here in Venezuela safeguarding the homeland,
00:03:11as well as those that today return to our country and we welcome with open arms.
00:03:16Over 90% of Venezuelans, according to the latest figures, bet on dialogue and consensus.
00:03:27All sectors, now way or another, have joined the measures for coexistence and peace.
00:03:35And we do it, dear colleagues, it's important today to do this because the acting president swore on January 5th
00:03:52with pain
00:03:54because we had just left what happened on January 3rd and she swore with honor and she said she would
00:04:02defend the Venezuelan people
00:04:03and the republic in any circumstance, in any situation.
00:04:07So I called the Venezuelan people who is listening to us to go over that speech.
00:04:13There were three main aspects that she promised to the Venezuelan people
00:04:19and that we see now, nine months later, what we have achieved.
00:04:25And that we see how much of that promise that our TLC, our acting president,
00:04:33is going today to present with dignity before the United Nations.
00:04:43You can say we are in the delivery room.
00:04:47nine months, because returning to those spaces means the recognition of our institutions,
00:04:54the value of Venezuela means to acknowledge what we have managed to do together.
00:04:59If there are no wars here, if there is no blood here, if there is no hate because there is
00:05:05none,
00:05:06there are just some remnants that no one listens to them anymore.
00:05:12If thanks to the bravery of our acting president, the president of the National Assembly,
00:05:21the colleagues who were ahead of the republic and knew how to make the best decisions,
00:05:29the correct decision, but it is also due of the collective construction of that government people
00:05:36that today is on the streets prevented that a different state that could have prevailed here
00:05:45to the one that we have planned, to the one that was approved here in this building.
00:05:52The government of Venezuela is no longer in Viraflores for a very long time.
00:05:57Chavez said here once, when he took oath in his first mandate, he said,
00:06:01poor of those that do not see, that do not feel, that do not listen.
00:06:07And from that moment, things have been on the people in Venezuela.
00:06:11And I think that has been demonstrated, that has been shown.
00:06:13That people government that is on the street does not allow for anything else but to move forward.
00:06:25That's why today we must grant the permission to the president.
00:06:31Just one more thing. Of course, there's media, western media, hegemonic media,
00:06:39that are trying to break the advance of Venezuela, trying to hide what cannot be hidden.
00:06:46There are remnants of those that do not want Venezuela to move forward,
00:06:53that remain outside the country, that aims to break what we are managing to do.
00:06:58And they won't be able to do so.
00:07:01This collective construction, this popular strength of life is indestructible,
00:07:05and it's the true government of Venezuela.
00:07:07It's the joint work of women, students, farmers, workers,
00:07:16who are today sitting to speak with leaders of the world,
00:07:19and today will be speaking before the National Assembly.
00:07:36This, which includes all workers in the country from all latitudes of the country,
00:07:41not only authorize but accompanies and blesses the acting president for her to be the spokesperson of Venezuela
00:07:50Venezuela in the United Nations General Assembly.
00:07:58Well, we will listen to the statements of Deputy Tania, who was presented before the plenarization of the National Assembly.
00:08:03That agreement, given the authorization and supporting the participation of the acting president
00:08:09of the United Nations General Assembly later in the afternoon,
00:08:13the deputies of the National Assembly will continue to debate on this agreement,
00:08:21and will proceed to the voting on such agreement, which is what's happening right now.
00:08:28The president of the National Assembly is calling for the vote, for the approval,
00:08:36and they are going to do so as they always do by showing hands.
00:08:43As we can see, with a vast majority, qualified majority, the permission, the agreement was approved.
00:08:50The women in support of the acting president, they are going to carry out the debate on this agreement,
00:09:03for the participation of the acting president.
00:09:11Now, Deputy Rojas is going to have turn of words to present the social agreement.
00:09:37The deputy will now present, before the plenary, the agreement that was just approved to be debated.
00:09:44As referring the agreement, it refers to the support and approval of the National Assembly
00:09:50and the people in general of the international agenda the acting president is carrying out in New York.
00:09:58Dear colleagues, president, deputies, Venezuelans, there are moments in the history of countries that summarizes many other moments.
00:10:25There are moments that become a before and an after.
00:10:35And I think I have the opportunity to speak about a document that will mark history, which is this agreement,
00:10:44as we were saying.
00:10:47That in a few moments, there's a few moments left for our acting president to speak at the UN General
00:10:55Assembly,
00:10:56we're going to mark what today represents, the ideals of Simone Bolivar, because Simone Bolivar is a guide.
00:11:07And Simone Bolivar told us in the letter in the Jamaica Charter that we must celebrate the balance of the
00:11:17universe.
00:11:17That balance of the universe has to do with a matter that all Venezuelans have worked for.
00:11:25There is no distinction here of parties or professions or regions.
00:11:32All Venezuelans.
00:11:34We have worked for the greatest diplomatic victory that Venezuela has had in the last years.
00:11:46So that's what is happening.
00:11:47They are debating the agreement, as we were saying, of the participation of the acting president of the United Nations
00:11:52and the international agenda that is taking place.
00:11:56But that's the situation that is happening right now in the National Assembly.
00:12:00What we know as the deputies will continue debating and will continue to provide updates and approve the participation
00:12:10and the participation of the acting president at the United National Assembly.
00:12:16And as a matter of fact, in terms of the international agenda, we can see we are now in the
00:12:21UN,
00:12:22the meeting of the acting president with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persis-Pisar,
00:12:30who, as we can see in the permanent mission of Venezuela and the United Nations,
00:12:36the acting president is holding this meeting with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:12:39As we were saying, this is part of the full-pack international work agenda
00:12:46that the acting president has been developing at the UN since Monday.
00:12:53with the participation of the delegations both between the Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
00:12:58to exchange views and to continue to follow up on strategic relationships and agreements
00:13:04to strengthen the relationship between the two nations.
00:13:10As we were saying, the vice president of the economy accompanied the president,
00:13:16the acting president in this bilateral meeting that was held, as we were saying,
00:13:21at the Venezuelan Permanent Mission at the UN headquarters.
00:13:27This is part of the international work agenda that the acting president has been carrying out in New York,
00:13:35ahead of her participation in the general debate.
00:13:39As we know, later today, the acting president of Rodriguez will take the stand at the UN General Assembly,
00:13:45and for the first time in a decade, the voice of Venezuela will be heard in the United Nations.
00:13:53This is, as we were just seeing at the National Assembly, being described as one of the most important diplomatic
00:13:58victories
00:13:59that Venezuela has achieved in the last years, and right now, as this meeting,
00:14:05as we are reporting on the meeting between the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
00:14:09and the acting president of Venezuela, in the National Assembly of Venezuela,
00:14:13the UN agreement is being debated on to express the support and approval of the acting president's participation
00:14:20and her international work agenda that is taking place in New York.
00:14:25So, this is the sum of the acting president, Delsi Rodriguez,
00:14:29held this bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Trinidad to continue strengthening
00:14:34and go over the cooperation and strategic agreements that exist between both nations
00:14:40that continue to advance that relationship between the two nations.
00:14:45Let's go back now to the National Assembly of Venezuela,
00:14:50where the agreement that we were referring to continues to be debated on.
00:14:54Let's continue to listen to the members of the National Assembly.
00:15:01To solve the problems, the serious problems that we have, among other things,
00:15:05because Venezuelans today, we have a challenge,
00:15:09which is to overcome 11 years of sanctions,
00:15:1311 years of economic aggression,
00:15:15which we will overcome because today we have national unity
00:15:21and we have political awareness to overcome this.
00:15:32I don't want to.
00:15:34I don't want to.
00:15:43What I'm certain is that our beloved acting president will present before the world
00:15:48what is the voice of a nation that stands sovereign, independent, freely,
00:15:57and that is truly capable to develop and that is capable of overcoming all difficulties.
00:16:10President, I ask permission to read the statement.
00:16:14Go ahead, your deputy.
00:16:18Agreement in support to the participation of the acting president of the Republican Republic of Venezuela,
00:16:25Dr. Delcy Rodríguez, in the United Nations General Assembly,
00:16:32taking into account that the participation of the acting president of the Republic
00:16:46of the United Nations General Assembly constitutes an important milestone of strategic transcendence
00:16:57for the diplomatic positioning and defense of our sovereignty.
00:17:02Therefore, her presence in the multilateral forum qualifies the unbreakable character
00:17:09of the principle of self-determination of peoples
00:17:13and strengthens the channels of dialogue and sovereign integration of the Venezuelan state
00:17:20with nations of the world and international organizations.
00:17:24That said participation constitutes an opportunity to expose before the world
00:17:34the significant achievements reached by the Venezuelan state in the economic recovery,
00:17:42the strengthening and political stability, and the consolidation of social welfare
00:17:50reaffirms the commitment of the Venezuelan government with the integral development of peace and social justice.
00:18:03The presence of our delegation before the United Nations is evident that Venezuela rises in the world,
00:18:13reinforces its recovery, reinforces its productive potential,
00:18:19and takes on with dignity and leadership its place in the vanguard,
00:18:25in the construction of a new multipolar order based on peace,
00:18:32mutual respect and cooperation among peoples.
00:18:38The acting president's address provides the ideal space to express in the name
00:18:48of the Bolivarian state, the most profound thanks to the governance of the world and international organization
00:18:57that provided immediate support and unconditional solidarity support after the devastating twin earthquakes last June 24th.
00:19:08We agreed, firstly, to support the participation of the acting president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
00:19:20Delcio Rodriguez, in the framework of the first session of the UN General Assembly.
00:19:33Secondly, highlight the participation of the acting president in the United Nations constitutes an indispensable vehicle
00:19:48to strengthen international relations of Venezuela,
00:19:52to consolidate alliances based in mutual respect and deepen the positioning, the sovereign position of the country in the international
00:20:07arena.
00:20:08Thirdly, published this agreement in the official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
00:20:18signed in Caracas on September 23rd, 2026,
00:20:27year 266 of the independence,
00:20:31167 of the Federation,
00:20:33and 27 of the Bolivarian Revolution.
00:20:37Thank you very much, dear deputies.
00:20:52We are listening to Deputy Roy, who presented the agreement that expresses the support of the National Assembly and the
00:21:02people of Venezuela
00:21:02to the participation of the acting president of Rodriguez in the United Nations.
00:21:06The deputies will now proceed to write more statements as the National Assembly debates
00:21:14on this agreement.
00:21:18We must understand the participation today of the acting president of Rodriguez and we
00:21:24must see it as a milestone.
00:21:32Who doesn't see this as a milestone is just an act of evilness because, firstly, it's the
00:21:39first Venezuelan women and secondly, when all the situation of West today and all the
00:21:49situation we are living, it's a great news that we have changed rules and paradigms.
00:21:58It is a milestone for the Venezuelan people that we are a country that is capable of building
00:22:05relations and recognizing the importance that the whole hemisphere of the world has when
00:22:09moving forward in the protection of the interests of the Venezuelan state.
00:22:14Today, it's indispensable that we understand the moment that we are living with responsibility
00:22:21to be able to give answers to the Venezuelan people because the openness before the world
00:22:27also comes accompanied by opportunities and those opportunities, those options that today
00:22:32the country has that didn't have before, we must present it to the people of Venezuela.
00:22:36Those options must come accompanied with more actions and to double down efforts so that
00:22:42the world once more respects our country so that we can develop with clarity and with conviction
00:22:50a model of economic development, social development, cultural development in which we are all represented.
00:22:59It is indispensable to deepen dialogue in the framework of these actions that are taking place.
00:23:04It is indispensable to deepen schemes and spaces in the spaces where we can recognize each other
00:23:11and the world recognizes us because without doubt this is giving results to the country.
00:23:15Without doubt, confrontation and polarization were defeated and we now move forward in a new political
00:23:21movement that would allow us to transform a lot of realities in Venezuela.
00:23:25And to be able to fulfill all these actions, to be able to capitalize for the people, this situation,
00:23:34we must also move forward in an important element that this National Assembly has put aside for the time,
00:23:40which is the implementation of the law for international cooperation.
00:23:46Because it was thanks to the international cooperation that we were able to give a better response
00:23:51before the twin earthquakes and the needs of the Venezuelan people.
00:23:54It was thanks to international cooperation and it will be thanks to international cooperation
00:23:57that we're going to be able to develop our economic capacities, education capacities, social and cultural
00:24:02as we know that we can do here in Venezuela.
00:24:06It is a moment that we must make a joint effort for the country to move forward.
00:24:12Moments of debates and differences will come, but today we are in a historic moment that demands us
00:24:18to have a great understanding of that moment to move forward for strengthening the Venezuelan institutions.
00:24:26Because strengthening our Venezuelan institutions is the strengthening of our migrants in the rest of the world.
00:24:32Strengthening the Venezuelan position before the UN is also giving response to peoples in the world
00:24:40that aims to affect the development of a country.
00:24:46This doesn't answer to a dogma, to a paradigm, ideological paradigm, but it has to be,
00:24:52the necessary pragmatism must be created for the interests of the Republic.
00:24:55And under that pragmatism, with a clear goal, we must continue moving forward.
00:25:10So, from this side, we support that agreement with the firm conviction that we are going to continue moving forward
00:25:17and that this doesn't become a scenario of a variety so that we can transform the variety that we have
00:25:24in options
00:25:25and opportunities and quality of life for Venezuelans and opportunities for all in terms of education,
00:25:31in terms of economy, in terms of culture, which is all the people that want to live their life in
00:25:37Venezuela.
00:25:50Good afternoon, world director, colleagues, deputies.
00:26:00We want to address this participation to all Venezuelans that are today.
00:26:08watching us.
00:26:11The parliamentary group, Libertad, cannot validate this agreement.
00:26:18It cannot validate this agreement in relation to the commitment we have with Venezuelans.
00:26:23This agreement puts forward phrases that are disconnected from the reality of the country.
00:26:31If I'm allowed, I will read some of them.
00:26:37Great achievements reached in the diversification and economic recovery.
00:26:42Strengthening of political stability institutions and consolidation of the welfare policies.
00:26:50Integral development, territorial peace, social justice.
00:26:59The diplomatic rhetoric cannot cover the reality of a country.
00:27:06The painful reality of a country that is carrying structural tear speaks of recovery,
00:27:17and what we have on the street is a country that is tired and without purchasing power.
00:27:23It speaks of political stability and integral development,
00:27:27but what we have is a bad salary in the pockets of workers and families with economic crises being crushed.
00:27:41Because social welfare is not decreed in New York.
00:27:45Social welfare is built here with transparency and with institutionality.
00:27:51This cannot be a debate for complacency.
00:27:59This must be a debate to provide solutions to Venezuelans.
00:28:03We want to speak of dignity and sovereignty, but above all of rebirth.
00:28:07So let's start putting forward dignity, listening to the voices of Venezuelan mothers that today are debating what will they
00:28:17do to be able to feed their children
00:28:19and how to send them to school because they have not enough money to buy the essentials for school.
00:28:27So, if we want to speak of dignity and sovereignty, then that will not be defended by a clauses that
00:28:34must be built, and that must be built here.
00:28:37If we want to speak of rebirth, then we will speak that that dignity of Venezuelans will be reborn the
00:28:48day that we fully respect the Venezuelan Constitution,
00:28:52the day that the salary is enough that all workers can have peace,
00:28:59that the light doesn't go out and the water arrives by the pipes.
00:29:04Thank you very much.
00:29:22Thank you very much, President of this National Assembly.
00:29:27Greetings to the Venezuelan people.
00:29:30I know that as I, a Venezuelan youth, but also as thousands, hundreds of thousands that today came here to
00:29:40ask that this agreement were approved,
00:29:43to support and accompany the acting President del Rodriguez.
00:29:47Today is a very important day for the nation.
00:29:53I want to make a personal illusion because I feel that this day is not another discourse,
00:30:00not a single, another assembly of the National Assembly, of the National Assembly, of the UN General Assembly.
00:30:07I feel that the Venezuelan people, and I dare to say this because I saw this on the streets,
00:30:11in the lighting faces, the happy faces of all Venezuelan people on the street that not only gather in Caracas
00:30:19but across Venezuela,
00:30:21faces of hope, motion, motion that is very light to an achievement of national unity.
00:30:29It's an emotion that I say, dreaming, that surely Venezuelans would feel when we see our national team to play
00:30:40at the FIFA World Cup.
00:30:43The illusion that we felt months ago when we saw young Venezuelans win the World Series of baseball
00:30:52and Venezuela rose their flag.
00:30:54That's the emotion that Venezuelan people feel.
00:30:56There will always be those that want to sow ashes.
00:31:01There are always those who will try to attempt that Venezuela remain silenced because today we're celebrating
00:31:07that Venezuela stop being silenced in the world and that the voice of dignity reached the United Nations.
00:31:14And not any voice because of the symbols this people is built, of the heroic history what comprises these people.
00:31:29We saw the acting president arrive in New York with a jacket that raised our attention and told us firstly
00:31:36something
00:31:37of all of us feel proud that we come from the South, that we come from Latin America
00:31:45because it had Mafalda on her back.
00:31:47That figure that reminisces the dignity of the Latin American people.
00:31:54That figure that carries hope, kindness, defense of the dispossessed.
00:32:04That carries the deep love which is a collective feeling of these people.
00:32:09So, president of the National Assembly and people of Venezuela, the only thing that we can wish
00:32:17is that the path that opens in this early first session of the United Nations General Assembly
00:32:23is the path of the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace in which these people continues to persist on.
00:32:31Today the voice of the acting president is the voice of peace in Venezuela.
00:32:35Today the voice of the acting president is the voice of those...
00:32:41Today the voice of the acting president in her is the sacred fire of the liberators.
00:32:50The flame that is not lit in calm is a flame that thrives in difficulty.
00:32:59So, Telsey, go ahead with your strength, with your voice, with your dignity,
00:33:02with the support of the Venezuelan youth, that seeing you in your speech and words and actions,
00:33:10the guarantee of future for a better economy, for a better country,
00:33:15for the well-being of all the Venezuelan people.
00:33:18So, of course, this bench, of course, with the support of the Venezuelan people,
00:33:23approve this agreement and we give all strength and love to the acting president,
00:33:29so that today continues to be a victorious day that is remembered by future generations.
00:33:35Thank you very much.
00:34:02Thank you very much.
00:34:12Good afternoon, President and colleagues from the bench Vamos Venezuela,
00:34:22This participation of the acting president before the UN following the meeting with the U.S. president shows a lot.
00:34:31It ratifies the proposal of our parliamentary bloc, Banos Venezuela, which is the absolute support to the three-phase plan
00:34:41presented by the U.S. government, which is stabilization, economic recovery, and democratic transition.
00:34:54And as we can see, you are also in agreement with that plan. We must guarantee that for this plan
00:35:04to be fully guaranteed, these three phases must proceed after the creation of a new Supreme Justice Tribunal and a
00:35:15National Electoral Council.
00:35:16To finalize, we are rejoiced that Venezuela returns to an international forum that she had never abandoned due to a
00:35:34fundamentalist position.
00:35:45Good afternoon, colleagues, deputies, and Venezuelan people.
00:35:51Firstly, we want to highlight that we received earlier the mobilization of thousands of men and women.
00:35:59They brought us a document where they suggested the agreement in support of the participation of our acting president in
00:36:07the 81st United Nations General Assembly.
00:36:12Secondly, several things have been said. I have no doubt that by a broad majority, our assembly supports the acting
00:36:22president of Rodriguez.
00:36:23I would say Venezuela. Venezuela is participating today in the United Nations and its representative is the acting president of
00:36:32Rodriguez.
00:36:35Venezuela is the acting president of Rodriguez, a woman representing as the acting head of state of our country in
00:36:39the National Assembly for the first time.
00:36:42And with her dignity, courage, bravery, and the historic charge of Bolivar, as the acting president said in January,
00:36:55we cannot be afraid nor can we deny the contradiction of Monroe Bolivar.
00:37:01We must solve that contradiction through diplomacy and the acting president is there to finish her role.
00:37:08Several things have been said. One of the deputies said before on the words that did not go in this
00:37:23agreement.
00:37:25Political stability. Who said that there is no political stability in this country?
00:37:30There is peace with the fear of violence, with the fear of the aspiration of those that wanted a civil
00:37:34war in this country.
00:37:36And political stability demands political responsibility of all that do policy, but also demands understanding of all.
00:37:48But also political stability, and I must highlight this, is not with guarimbas, nor asking for invasions, or asking for
00:38:01bombings, nor asking for sanctions.
00:38:03Political stability, political stability, work, dialogue, and Venezuela is on that path right now.
00:38:13There is territorial peace. We do not shy away from problems. There are problems, there are difficulties.
00:38:20Our country, our people are facing difficulties. And we would not deny this here.
00:38:27But there is also unorganized people facing those difficulties. There is a people that is understanding each other.
00:38:32There is a people that is building in every neighborhood, in every community, in every condominium, even rebuilding their buildings
00:38:38that were impacted by the twin earthquakes of June 24th.
00:38:45There is in this country territorial peace. Someone spoke here about social welfare. Social welfare goes through work, goes through
00:38:55production.
00:38:57But social welfare, that has to do with economic recovery, also has to do with over a thousand unilateral coercive
00:39:06measures are lifted, so that we can, so that the blockade ends against our country.
00:39:30With double standard, they come here to speak on that topic.
00:39:47They speak of a tired country. It is true. There is tiredness. People are tired of confrontation. People are tired
00:39:58of those that call for violence.
00:40:00Of irrationality. These people, what proposes today is the unity of a country. The unity of all, respecting how each
00:40:10of others think.
00:40:11I respect your political opinion. I respect the political opinion of all. You have the right to think different from
00:40:18me.
00:40:18But what is being defended in the United Nations is the Bolivar and Republic of Venezuela. It's the homeland. It's
00:40:24the country. It's the interest of all.
00:40:30And here, I speak to the Venezuelan family, the workers, the entrepreneurs, the businessmen.
00:40:42We will all do better if there is peace in this country. We're all going to do better if the
00:40:47blockade and sanctions are lifted.
00:40:48We're going to be able to recover the economy. And if we recover the economy, we're going to recover the
00:40:53income of workers.
00:40:54We're going to make life easier for our people. And we have never denied that.
00:41:02It was also spoken here that, at last, we defeated dogmas and paradigms.
00:41:14Here's a picture of Commander Chavez, who always meet all U.S. Presidents. Always.
00:41:20Here's a picture of Chavez with Bush. Here's a picture of Chavez with Barack Obama.
00:41:27It's a picture of Chavez with Bill Clinton and with other people of the government of the U.S.
00:41:37Venezuela has never denied relations with the U.S.
00:41:41The Bolivarian Revolution, better say, our process, our direction, has never denied for a correct relationship with the U.S.
00:41:55trade relations, commercial relations, no. We move forward. Today, the acting president is there in the United Nations,
00:42:04defending the interests, stating the truth of Venezuela. I feel proud that after, in January, they bombed.
00:42:15And we are there defending the homeland before the most important stage of the international arena,
00:42:28which is the United Nations General Assembly.
00:42:35Tignity, unity, and sovereignty has to do with national unity, the union of all.
00:42:40So, today in this country, if something is necessary, is the unity of all.
00:42:47To overcome the challenges that exist in social sectors, we must resolve that.
00:42:53We must improve public services. We must improve the income of our people.
00:42:58But we are going to do that, reintegrating Venezuela, rebuilding all international financial capacity of a country,
00:43:08to work together to recover the economy.
00:43:11So, the main factor today is the national union, beyond policy, beyond ideology, beyond religion,
00:43:18national unity, union to defend Venezuela.
00:43:21Thank you very much.
00:43:22Thank you very much.
00:43:52Since January 5th, year 2021, in which we installed for the first time the case, the
00:44:03last legislature, one of the main things that we set forward was the need to respect plurality,
00:44:12to respect dignity of the deputies of the people of Venezuela, and also the need to create
00:44:21path to peace, especially January 5th of this year, 2026, when we installed the new legislation
00:44:35that was elected in 2025, and how much pain have we endured, and how many difficulties.
00:44:55The tragedy of June 24th, sisters and brothers that we lost, the pain of all our people, and
00:45:10still, we keep alive the flame of life, of hope, of prosperity, of joy, of solidarity,
00:45:23of generosity that characterizes the people of Venezuela.
00:45:33I also always consider, before speaking, the need to not fall in temptation, provocations,
00:45:47but I always fall, because provocations are for that.
00:45:53The intention to generate some kind of ill feeling in the soul.
00:46:07And it is about our people that we are talking about, of our history, of our family.
00:46:23There is a clear example, a metaphor.
00:46:32You know, there is a figure, as a killer, of the large countries developed.
00:46:44Some theories say that it is a consequence of great loneliness that are lived in those societies.
00:46:53But what is true, that in a country like ours, the figure of a serial assassin is not so common,
00:46:59as it happens in other countries.
00:47:02And a clear characteristic of the serial assassin is that he blames the victim,
00:47:10blames the victim of the great crime that he is committing.
00:47:13یں.
00:47:14I am killing you because you are a woman.
00:47:16I am killing you because you are a girl.
00:47:19I am killing you because you are a woman.
00:47:23I am killing you because you are able to hurt me.
00:47:34All observed reasons and made up reasons by the aggressor and put in the figure of the victim.
00:47:45And who knows what corner of his sick brain belongs to.
00:47:51I was wondering, what were you thinking when you were asking for sanctions against Venezuela?
00:47:56I wonder, are the girls' children responsible that were not able to receive treatment through Simone Bolivar's program?
00:48:15As it happened since the year 2000 in Venezuela but stopped happening because the sanctions did not allow them to
00:48:21continue.
00:48:22There you have the letters of those hospitals in Rome, in Argentina, in the United States, telling us that due
00:48:34to the fact that Venezuela was a country that was sanctioned, they could not treat the children as they did
00:48:39for so many years.
00:48:41Did you think about it when you rose your hand here to support the policies of sanctions, when you stood
00:48:52from the dialogue table for the year 2016?
00:49:04Did you think in how the economy of the country would deteriorate, how the living conditions would deteriorate?
00:49:15Did you think about that?
00:49:17And I say more.
00:49:19Did you think about it when you suffered the consequences of those sanctions?
00:49:24Because you stand here to say and blame the victims.
00:49:36And it would have been easier to shelter in the argument of war.
00:49:44It would have been easier to hide in cries and screams, in the hollow slogans.
00:49:57It's been more difficult.
00:50:02The road that the acting press and deficit undertook, the path that we have taken, the path that the Arizona
00:50:08people are taking, which is the path of peace, understanding, and negotiation.
00:50:17Do you believe that for me in particular, it's easy to speak with you?
00:50:22No, it is not easy, it's very difficult.
00:50:31I don't know in how many dialogue tables we've been due to the necessity, the search of solutions, of conflicts,
00:50:43through humane means, which are the ways of dialogue, understanding, and agreements.
00:50:52It's easy, you know, it's very difficult.
00:50:58You don't know how much we have had to endure when all those fake statements come up, all those lies,
00:51:07all those insults.
00:51:10But today, in the inner pocket of your suits, the diplomatic passport of the acting President Rodrigues,
00:51:30says, with pride, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
00:51:44The problem is, of those that want to have buses that belong to the Republic of Panama.
00:51:48That's not our concern.
00:52:04I don't know how many times we are going to renounce once and once more to the nationality, to the
00:52:13Venezuelan nationality.
00:52:14It's recurring.
00:52:15You do it over and over again.
00:52:18Fortunately, the Constitution prohibits you.
00:52:25The Constitution doesn't allow them to renounce your nationality.
00:52:33And if you accept a diplomatic position in our country, well, of course, this is the moment.
00:52:41As in the past, you said that Venezuelans abroad, some of your bosses said it, you said it, that there
00:52:53were a plague.
00:52:56That Venezuelans abroad were a plague that had to be eradicated.
00:53:02And a whole structure was set up.
00:53:05A whole apparatus.
00:53:08Psychological and economic apparatus.
00:53:09Because, through wealth was generated, promoting the coal of Venezuela and other countries.
00:53:21In the United States, it was 10,000 for migrants.
00:53:29Those who filled the form saying that there were political refugees, they would give them that money.
00:53:37How much money did they not make with that?
00:53:41How many law firms were not in service?
00:53:48So, that moment you said it because you thought they would achieve the political benefit, but now they're not the
00:53:57reality.
00:53:57Because thanks to the diplomatic effort of this country, of this government and these people, Venezuela signed the greatest oil
00:54:12business that the Republic has ever had in its history.
00:54:18And, of course, this is the moment in which you, blaming the victims, point out the problems that we have,
00:54:29as if we didn't know about them.
00:54:35Because in a few months, you will not be able to say anything else.
00:54:41In a very short while, when we manage, because we will manage it despite of you.
00:54:49When we achieve the rebirth of this Republic, the recovery of prosperity, the recovery of the social welfare that you
00:55:01took away.
00:55:05The recovery of the full life that we deserve.
00:55:28The recovery of the full life that we deserve.
00:55:34The great earthquake that meant the destruction of the power grid.
00:55:43The quake that broke about so much.
00:55:47The earthquake took between 700 and 800 MW of distribution lines that were damaged.
00:55:59And, of course, there was a lot of damage to that in the center of the country.
00:56:04Well, we are going to fix it.
00:56:09And then you will have to say here,
00:56:11Ah, well, yes, look.
00:56:15The power system is fully repaired.
00:56:17Because they are saying it, because they know that to recover from their wounds, we need time.
00:56:24And in that time, which is the time we are right now, is the opportunity that they have to insist
00:56:32in hopelessness, in sadness, to insist in the pain that you cause.
00:56:40Because none of you never stood out, never stood and say no to sanctions.
00:56:50And you never said sanction Jorge Rodriguez, but do not sanction hospital because that's a crime.
00:56:54Sanction Pedro Infantes, but do not sanction the income.
00:57:08I have the weird privilege to be sanctioned by a country as boring as Canada.
00:57:17It was the first country to sanction me.
00:57:20A country I know nothing about and I don't want to know nothing about.
00:57:25The government of Canada sanctioned Jorge Rodriguez and I was like, what?
00:57:29I don't even know what that is.
00:57:41Say what you want to say at this moment.
00:57:44Because time will make you to swallow your own words.
00:57:57And I do not speak about years.
00:58:04If we had hidden in the arguments of war, how many dead we will be counting now?
00:58:13How many children would have suffered when the sons and daughters of those that asked for war,
00:58:26they would never suffer the consequences because they are outside of Venezuela?
00:58:33We chose the path of diplomacy.
00:58:36That is already giving fruits, real results.
00:58:45You can die of envy, but the real protagonist of the 81st meeting of the United Nations is the Bolivar
00:58:58Republic of Venezuela and its acting president of Venezuela.
00:59:07And that's why we greet, we welcome her speech, not only for the words that it carries, not only for
00:59:18the intention,
00:59:21but we welcome that speech as a historic milestone and as a demonstration that we were not wrong.
00:59:33Demonstration that at least we deserve the merit of a country in peace, of a country that recovers,
00:59:45a country that knows how to endure the wounds without erasing the smile, and that's a lot.
00:59:55That's enough to be not only in peace, but in peace with ourselves, with our conviction.
01:00:09It's a historic milestone that is, on top of that, a woman born on this land.
01:00:21It's a historic milestone, a historic milestone here on January 10th of this year.
01:00:32The acting president tells C. Rodriguez said that if it was on her to go to Washington, she would do
01:00:42it standing, walking,
01:00:45with intact sovereignty, with independence intact.
01:00:57And that's exactly how it happened, no matter what they want to say.
01:01:08The only thing that was missing from her speech was Mafalda.
01:01:19You can die of envy, those who want to die of envy.
01:01:23But this day has to be remembered as a day in which Venezuela, before the world,
01:01:34marked the pace and commitment so that sooner, way sooner than later,
01:01:46we recover the full life that our sons and daughters deserve.
01:01:54Say all you want to say, but hurry up because your time is running out.
01:02:20We are closing the moment for debate.
01:02:26The National Assembly will now proceed to vote on the approval of the agreement for the participation of the acting
01:02:34president C. Rodriguez in the United Nations later today in the afternoon.
01:02:41As we are saying, a vast majority, a qualified majority has proven in favor, therefore the agreement was approved.
01:02:53And with this weight, the National Assembly has approved the agreement that was in discussion.
01:03:01That the agreement that shows the support of the participation of the acting president C. Rodriguez before the United Nations
01:03:09to participate in the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
01:03:13It's a strong show of support not only that he supports the acting president, but it shows the support of
01:03:20the unity and need to continue working together.
01:03:25As also a show of support by the people of Venezuela that we saw earlier in the day that had
01:03:31rallied en masse on the streets to express precisely that support to Venezuela acting president in the United Nations.
01:03:37A movement that as many deputies have said and the president of the National Assembly said marks a milestone in
01:03:44the history of the diplomacy of the nation and marks a clear path to continue developing the progress and the
01:03:51future of the Venezuelan nation.
01:03:53That's what is happening. That's what just happened in Caracas at the Legislative Palace.
01:03:58The National Assembly approved the participation of the acting president in New York.
01:04:02But now we will continue with other news in this news brief from the South. So stay with us.
01:04:16What is happening.