Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro addresses those participating in the National Unity Council meeting held in Caracas on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Photo: Venezuela's Presidential Press.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has taken part in a new meeting of the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace.
The National Council for Sovereignty and Peace is a broad-front approach implemented by the Venezuelan state to face almost two months of intensified US imperial aggression against Venezuela. This unprecedented national unity strategy brings together important figures from across Venezuelan sectors of life, from economic, political, academic, and scientific sectors, including both sides of the political aisle.
The meeting, which took place this Wednesday, October 15, was chaired by Jorge Rodríguez, secretary of the council, at the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas.
The event gathered more than 400 guests from all strategic sectors of the country, including:
• State Secretariats of the 24 states of the country and the Capital District
• Representatives of foreign communities in Venezuela
• Spokespersons from the economic and business sector
• University sector authorities
• Leaders of grassroots social movements
• Historians and members of the cultural sector
•Representatives from the youth, fisherfolk, and sports sectors
• Political organizations that have been duly accredited before the National Electoral Council (CNE)
•Delegates of the Bolivarian Socialist Group of Workers of the City, Countryside, and Fishing of Venezuela
• Special guests and social media personalities
During the meeting, the head of state received the results of the four working groups: international, political, communications, and economic, which resulted in more than 30 projects that will be developed in the coming months.
The agenda includes an international meeting of jurists to discuss and defend the inalienable rights of Venezuelans, as enshrined in the Constitution of Venezuela, the United Nations Charter, and the Charter of Human Rights.
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Venezuela is not Tren de Aragua
President Maduro explicitly stated during the meeting that xenophobic statements comparing Venezuelans to criminal groups like the Tren de Aragua—which was disbanded by Venezuela’s own military police force—must stop, as reported by Telesur.
“The discriminatory and xenophobic claims that compare Venezuelan identity with criminal groups attacked and neutralized in Venezuela must cease,” the president said, emphasizing that “Venezuela is not the Tren de Aragua gang, it is a country of honest, humane, hardworking people.”
“When Venezuelans, as a result of a brutal economic war, of silent missiles that sought to destroy the economic and social body and soul of the country, had to leave, they encountered the demon of xenophobic campaigns and violence,” Presidebt Maduro said, in reference to illegal sanctions from the US empire and its allies, and their impact on the Venezuelan economy.
He added that “especially today in the US, they try to lie and say that Venezuelans are an offshoot of a criminal gang that we disbanded here: the Tren de Aragua.”
“Venezuela is a country full of values and a collective will to live,” the president reaffirmed, highlighting the fact that the Venezuelan people only wish to prosper in peace, and that they fear none of the actors attempting to interfere in the nation’s sovereignty.
(Últimas Noticias) with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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