Haití, Haití!
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez speaks during his weekly broadcast
The national leader expresses its heartfelt condolences to the victims of the earthquake of 7.3 that shook the neighboring country of Haiti / This devastating earthquake is added to the infinite tragedy endured by the Haitian people for so many years, states / For that reason, Venezuela has placed the order on the Caribbean island
I
History is calling us to Haiti at this very difficult and painful.
Haiti: the first black republic in the world and the first Republic of our America as early as 1 January 1804, after defeating Napoleon’s troops after 12 years of struggle (1791-1803). Haiti: the Black Jacobins, the Toussaint L’Ouverture and Alexander Petion.
Haiti: Miranda, there was his dream to release an entire continent, as would occur with Bolivar, ten years later, would receive all the sympathy and support of the Black Jacobins, Beyond the Precursor hoisted for the first time our flag, on the mast of the ship Leander on 12 March 1806.
Haiti: Bolivar, the Expedition of the Keys (1816) which received the unconditional support of the illustrious Petion, who only asked for the freedom of slaves. Not in vain our Liberator called it “the author of our liberty.” There, in contact with the reality of the “most democratic republic in the world”-are his words, Bolivar finished forging the revolutionary temper of his spirit.
Haiti, then, is holy land for us and us.
I’ve been on my soul to the heroic people of Haiti suffered with infinite love and his great hope. In March 2007 the strength of their love and hope made me run beside him through the streets of Port-feeling between brothers and sisters.
This devastating earthquake is added to the infinite tragedy endured by the Haitian people for so many years.
Bolivar by Petion and, we have to pay a historical debt. For this reason, Venezuela has become the order of Haiti. They’re two brigades in the country for humanitarian Petion and soon will leave others. Likewise, we launched the Campaign of Solidarity with Haiti and the Venezuelan people are responding as you know it.
For Petion and Bolivar: Venceremos!
II
The economic measures we have taken reflect the need to put a stop to a situation that is part of a transition process dynamic and complex.
There are no magic wands to solve all the economic sphere. Especially when it comes to ensuring the country’s economic sovereignty.
Since taking control of changes to this part, we have to evaluate closely the cyclical behavior of the national economy and this has enabled us to mitigate the domestic impact of global crisis of capitalism, which ended destabilize regional economies.
Today we see the urgency of implementing corrective inexorable economic nature. True, the decisions may cause anxieties and concerns, as all the favorable change.
I am confident in the consciousness of people and I know it will not fall into the false alarms that the media pitiyanquis advance: to convince us that they opened the gates of hell and that the Government will now burn in their own fire. As has been so far, it will be total disaster waiting to crave.
There are no more wise decision that is taken on time and responding to the specific historical moment: the other is to stretch the wrinkle or bury our heads and that we are not willing to afford it.
Each step we take in revolution involves not only risks but especially new challenges: we have demonstrated our willingness to confront them with responsibility and commitment, taking heart in the center of the deepest needs of the Venezuelan people.
Change the value of our currency against the dollar is only the most superficial analysis of what we propose in the background. In reality and in truth, we are reassessing the bolivar to propose new challenges.
At first instance, we will have more strength to deal with the gross speculative practices that did nothing financially to distort the real value of goods and services.
The state, in this sense, could not keep giving benefits to those who decided to exchange his will that matters as necessary goods, luxury items actually being sold to uncontrollable prices.
So this week created the National Plan against speculation. We are creating conditions to generate a real strengthening of the domestic industry to meet the most genuine national interests.
We can not continue importing without measure what we are already in the opportunity to begin production in the country. Hence the appeal to the goodwill of small and medium entrepreneurs and investors who wish to join in this effort to forge a new economic model.
In this sense, last Wednesday we created the Socialist Production Bicentennial Fund, which comes to being a first step in building a supportive policy towards the national productive sovereignty.
This will enable us not only to diversify and increase production of goods and services to meet our deepest domestic needs but also gain new strength to the export of our products.
Serve then this juncture to, honesty and responsibility, undertake the construction firm from a country that ceases to be a financier and cut the Gordian knot of oil dependence.
A central problem and transcendent Venezuelan road to socialism lies in the metamorphosis of the rentier model: structural change in the model of capitalist accumulation that we have, changing depending on the diversification of production towards which we orient ourselves to overcome definitively the rentier.
III
I want to reiterate a strategic guideline that I announced last Friday in my speech to the National Assembly on the occasion of the presentation of the Report and Statement of 2009: we must continue dismantling the old bourgeois state and accelerate the process of building the new social and democratic state , law and justice, who commands our Constitution. It is a historical necessity and an imperative for the continuation and deepening of the Bolivarian Revolution, the path to socialism.
We must not give oxygen to the bourgeois state. By contrast, Quito is an imperative to be extinguished altogether.
The bourgeois state still has spaces within the state that is emerging: from those spaces traps, sabotage, hindering the process of creating the new institutions.
We lack a long way to consolidate the new state, we are in transition towards him. Its consolidation depends and will depend on how capable we are to embody the role of communal power: the people’s power in all its expressions.
Popular power is the soul and the flame of another way of being State and Government. We must realize that lucidly Kleber Ramirez visualized many years ago: “… it is time for communities to assume powers of state, which will lead to global administrative processing of the Venezuelan state and socially the actual exercise of sovereignty by society through communal authorities.
Fatherland, socialism or death!
Venceremos!
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