Maduro recently announced that they will meet all day on Tuesday from 06:00 to 18:00, local time, “to begin to elaborate the proposal and the entire day of consultation and debate.” He valued having “a beautiful and guarantor Constitution that allows these processes to take place, especially at the precise time and moment that we are doing it and with the people aware, educated and organized.”

Maduro added about the latter that there are many “nice things that we are doing now and we have achieved them despite the sanctions and the entire economic war.” He also stated that they have grown in the face of sanctions (which add up to more than a thousand according to official data) and the economic war, and “Venezuela is moving forward economically with its own efforts and nothing and no one will stop us.”

The President considered it important that everyone be attentive and participate, and assured that “the doors are open to everyone and those who did not believe yesterday and say they do, welcome to the debate and to the construction because Venezuela belongs to all of us and we all fit in.”

The dignitary said he was very motivated by this process, which has him “over-energized, because I believe that society can be updated, perfected, modernized and improved even more with our Constitution.” He also said he was surprised that there are people on the right who never accepted that he ordered them to vote no against the Constitution, who supported all the coups in Venezuela and now say that the Constitution is untouchable, that it is the best they have had in history.

Maduro stressed that the Venezuelan Constitution “is the best in the entire history of Latin America and the Caribbean and Hugo Chavez made it with the people, and now we are going to modernize and perfect it.”

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