Caracas.- During the gathering of the “World Social Alternative”, the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, invited the entire bloc to develop new strategies that will allow the independent and sovereign peoples to successfully continue the struggle against imperialism.

“The time has come from the social movements of ALBA, with a very broad vision of organizing a new world social alternative against capitalism, against fascism, for a world of peace, love, life, hope and a multipolar world based on the peoples”.

He stressed that to achieve this there must be full popular awareness.

“Because only aware, mobilized and organized, empowered peoples will be able to build the new world.”

In order to strengthen the coordinated work between the people and the government, he emphasized that training must come from the grassroots.

“It is not a man, comrades. It is about the values taught to the people. It is to have faith in the people; it is to teach the people from the bottom up. It is to constantly activate their struggles; it is to believe in the spiritual strength, the identity, the roots; it is to sow today, to harvest tomorrow and to sow again, to be in constant renewal”.

He also added that it is essential to listen to the people, to know how to accept criticisms that lead to better proposals to improve the system.

” We must renew the rhetoric, the public policies. It is to learn to listen to the harsh criticism of the people, face to face and let the criticism come”.

We welcome criticism. It is to know how to make self-criticism in order to move forward, to sow hope, not to self-flagellate, to self-destruct, to demoralize the people, it must be to learn, to move forward”, he said.

The Venezuelan President assured that today, more than ever, the people are growing stronger and are empowered with knowledge, their achievements and their struggles.

“Our people during these 11 years, I believe so and you will see it in the coming days, our people have become better organized, it is a people of values, it is a people of principles, it is an empowered people and if anyone owns the victory in all the situations that we have had to face, if anyone owns the victory against the blockade, sanctions, conspiracies and everything that imperialism has done, it only belongs to the noble, mobilized, conscious, empowered and organized people of Venezuela to guarantee the future,” he said.

He said that ” new steps are coming for the happiness and for the guarantee of the construction of socialism in Venezuela and a new and powerful social alternative in the world”.

Within this framework, he announced that for December “it will be 30 years since the first meeting between the two giants Fidel and Chavez”, in addition, “we will also be commemorating twenty years since the founding of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America, today the Bolivarian Alliance”.

Presidential Press Office