Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said this Friday night that the Latin American region was experiencing a favorable scenario for progressive forces and asked the nations of the area to take advantage of this “great opportunity” to strengthen regional integration.
In front of the cameras of the state-owned Venezolana de Televisión, Maduro asserted that the leaders of the entire region must soon consider a new dynamic “to agree on the construction of a common economic space, to agree on the construction of a system common currency”. .
In this sense, he described the development of progressive forces as “a great opportunity to build our new independence, to build new democracies, to end the neoliberal model and to give them rights to education , health, work and food for our people”. .
“There must be a change of attitude in all the rulers of America; we must look within our America with great force again; There must be a change in our behavior to listen to each other, to understand each other”, he stressed.
Also, he emphasized that another important point of the joint agenda should be the regeneration of the Amazon as part of the fight against climate change, referring to the announcement of the elected president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, about Brazil’s goal. to host the 30th edition of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, to be held in 2025.
“We tell Lula (da Silva) that we agree with an urgent political summit to save the Amazon, to recover, regenerate and reforest the Amazon; this is a big point of the progressive agenda”, he said.