Jorge Arreaza speaks at Chavista demonstration. Photo: EFE.
“Imperialist bombs will only deepen the Bolivarian Revolution,” Jorge Arreaza proclaimed at a huge Chavista mobilization in Caracas.
From the mass-mobilization led by Venezuela’s communes, Jorge Arreaza condmned US criminal aggression in Venezuela and called for unity and confidence in the country’s revolutionary Bolivarian leadership in the face of the illegal kidnapping of the presidential couple.
On Wednesday, crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands, representing the communes and communal counciles across Venezuela, took to the streets of Caracas to demand the release of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who remain illegally detained in a maximum-security prison in New York after being kidnapped during the aggression carried out by the United States on January 3.
During the rally, Jorge Arreaza, rector of the National University of the Communes, declared that “socialism in Venezuela is the commune.” He recalled the maxim of former President Hugo Chávez: “The commune is the territory where we are going to build socialism. In other words, without the commune there is no socialism.” The mobilization, Arreaza emphasized, sought to defend these revolutionary principles.
At a crucial moment for the nation in the face of imperialist aggression, Arreaza urged communal members to maintain “confidence in the political high command of the Bolivarian Revolution.” He warned emphatically: “Do not be led astray by intrigues, do not be led astray by rumors,” calling for firm support for Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez, and Minister for Communes and Social Movements Ángel Prado.
He expressed firm conviction that “through the golden doors of Miraflores Palace, sooner rather than later, we will see President Nicolás Maduro enter hand in hand with his wife Cilia Flores de Maduro, and they will return, and we will embrace them, and you will embrace them in the streets.”
The former foreign minister consistently highlighted President Maduro’s work in empowering the people over recent years, stating that the president has devoted significant efforts to “handing power over to the people in their territories.” He cited the reorganization of communal spokespersons with the support of the National Electoral Council (CNE), a process that has been intensively underway since 2022.
Arreaza underscored the popular consultations promoted by Maduro, recalling the president’s words: “It is not through the ministries, it is not through the institutions; it is the people who will tell us what their needs are and where we should invest those resources.”
Addressing the complex political and social context, Arreaza acknowledged the persistent threats from the United States. In this context, Arreaza invoked Antonio Gramsci’s thesis of the “whip of the counterrevolution,” which—according to the teachings of Commander Chávez and President Maduro—“does nothing but accelerate the Revolution.” He argued that “the imperialist bombs of the counterrevolution will only deepen the Bolivarian Revolution, communal democracy, and the communal state” in the country.
Finally, Arreaza issued an urgent call for coordinated and united action throughout the country. He urged that the spirit of the current mobilization be replicated in every commune and Communal Council, thereby strengthening grassroots popular organization. The fundamental objective, he noted, is to consolidate the resistance of the Venezuelan people and decisively advance the deepening of the revolutionary process in the face of the complex external and internal challenges confronting the nation.
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Cameron Baillie is an award-winning journalist, editor, and researcher. He won and was shortlisted for awards across Britain and Ireland. He is Editor-in-Chief of New Sociological Perspectives graduate journal and Commissioning Editor at The Student Intifada newsletter. He spent the first half of 2025 living, working, and writing in Ecuador. He does news translation and proofreading work with The Orinoco Tribune.
