Re-Imagining Society by Constructing Popular Power

Re-Imagining Society by Constructing Popular Power
Julio Chavez (Translated)
Part 2

Communities are being organized based on how best to supply resources, to maximize production, and social health. The media bias says that Venezuela is marching towards a dictatorship, while the opposite is true, it is heading to a true democracy where every citizen gets his/her fair say. This has been done to correct the problems where individuals seek political office for personal power, and to give the power instead to the people. Any politician can be impeached by the community if they act in a manner contradictory of the will of the people they represent.

All of this has been done with the support of Cuba. Cuban men and women, left their country to help work within Venezuela during the differing social projects, such as project sucre, robinson, and miracle, to help support the medical and educational growth of Venzuela. (applause)

During the time of the Capitalist crisis in Venezuela less than 1% of the GDP was spent on Health care, that has been increased over 7 fold by the new government. The unemployment rate has gone from 15% to 6.5% in the same time. In addition the rate of inflation has gone down from 103.2% in 1996 to 22.5% in 2007.

Who benefeits the most from these changes? Tthe people: who now have medical care, access to nutritional food, and Venezuela is now a country certified free of illiteracy by the UN.

400 years of domination has been more than enough to allow the people of Latin America to value their freedom, and their right to be a democratic group of nations free of the follies and inequalities that Capitalism brings.

Everything that we have done has been successfull in bringing democracy, the participation of the people, the economic success, has come about as a result of stopping the old processes. This is the reason why the military bases are being created in Columbia, as bases to try to assassinate Hugo Chavez. [Editor: The US doesn't want a successful example of a non-capitalist government so close to home] As the US has failed the people in Iraq, and in Afganistan, they will fail the people of Venezuela with their military in Columbia. The US is only thinking of petroleum energy and not the people they hurt to get it.

That is the main reason why we request the solidarity of Canada, and the people of the country become educated of this information. When people know the truth of the situation they will not be swayed by the lies of capitalism, but will see the truth of the life in socialism.

We have no interest in living on our knees, we prefer to die standing up. There is no going back on our social awakening.
(standing ovation)