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offensive insult that, to the instigator of the violence of the so-called guarimbasMaría Corina Machado, a renowned coup plotter who has openly demanded the armed intervention of the United States in her country, who has stood on the side of the genocidal Zionists of the Palestinian people, who boasts of being a pupil of Donald Trump, has been awarded the discredited Nobel Peace Prize (sic).
It is not surprising, since let us remember that other notorious criminals against humanity such as Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, promoters of coups d’état and wars against sovereign countries, were also awarded with what Ignacio Ramonet describes as the “sad putrid Nobel.” Such nonsense is part of the military aggression plans that US imperialism is carrying out against Venezuela, and against all the peoples and progressive forces of Our America.
Meanwhile, within the framework of the International Conference on Colonialism and Neocolonialism, which took place in Caracas, we observed that the people and the government of that sister country are immersed in the preparation of the defense of the homeland of Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez, with the incorporation of millions of citizens into the militias, based on the war strategy of all the people, of the civic-military-police unity and, also, of the construction of popular power in the thousands of communes of the national geography.
I had the privilege of visiting the El Panal commune, in the 23 de Enero parish of Caracas, together with internationalists from Puerto Rico, Haiti, Martinique, Belize and Brazil, being received in the so-called Arco de la Commune by spokespersons and militants of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force, named, by the way, in memory of a young Chavista revolutionary murdered in 2002. The protagonism of women is visible, particularly Afro-descendants, who, with conviction and pride in what they have achieved, explain how the commune is the strategy to build socialism, to establish the communal confederation and transform society, supported by the government and linked to its different levels of authority and political representation.
On this journey we arrived at the Panalito de Santa Rosa, where we talked about the multiple experiences of Chavista territorial self-government. Then they took us to the Las Abejitas del Panal workshop, the communally owned means of textile production, where it was explained how 5,200 school uniforms were made and given away free of charge. To close the day, the internationalist murals that vindicate the struggles of the Palestinian people and the Iranian people against Zionism and US imperialism were visited. Through art, internationalism is sown with other processes, and it was even shared that the experience of the Zapatista Mayans is followed up with great interest. This is how they are building their own socialist model of the 21st century.
Memory was made of the initial fight against organized crime, drugs and prostitution, even with weapons, until they were expelled from the neighborhoods and buildings of the commune. They took over the spaces with culture, with sports, with recreation, with art, from which the community has transformed its habitat.
The urban metamorphosis is taking place with infrastructure works. The idea of participatory and leading democracy is practiced in everyday life and in the strengthening of assemblies and groups of assemblies. It is about breaking with the hierarchical forms of capitalist organization. Young people prepare with the help of surrounding universities. It is a youth that has taken a qualitative step by becoming politically aware, along with other sectors of the urban environment.
The companions of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force expressed that “more than a visit, it was an exchange of views and revolutionary wills in a communal key, which unites the peoples of Our America in the construction of a shared socialist horizon,” ending with the slogans Commune or Nothing! We will win!
If this reciprocity of knowledge took place in a Chavista commune in the Caracas neighborhoods, the next day it was possible to coexist with the collective of an insurgent commune at the Simón Rodríguez National Experimental University, where I gave a conference on social sciences and counterinsurgency, based on the concept of global state terrorism that tries to impose US imperialism in the planetary sphere, and given the context of the threat of military aggression that the country is currently experiencing. The event and the coexistence with the Rector and her fellow professors made it possible to confirm the deep commitment of this institution to the revolutionary process in the preparation of thousands of students who specialize in technical and social careers.
There is no doubt, Venezuela will win!
