Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during his interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet, January 1, 2025. Photo: Presidential Press.
“In 2025, we are going to work to strengthen indexation and recovery of real wages, which will grow in the same way as the national economy,” declared Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro during his traditional New Year interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet.
“At the social level, in 2023, we created the formula for the indexation of the integral income of workers,” he explained during the interview on Wednesday, January 1. “In 2024, we broadened the concept because the income of individuals depends on the country’s income. We have barely been able to recover 10% of the country’s income [before the blockade], and with that, we have to invest in everything and recover everything.”
President Maduro confirmed that during his next six-year term, which will begin on January 10 with the constitutional inauguration before the National Assembly, he will focus on all pending tasks regarding the welfare of the Venezuelan people.
“This year, we have to complete the planned recovery of 100% of the country’s health facilities, with full guarantee of operation and technology,” he added. “What we have done with the Military Community Brigades [Bricomiles] has been a miracle. In 2025, we will also complete the renovation of all schools and high schools throughout the country with this wonderful formula, the Bricomiles.”
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Great missions of the new generation
“What is of great importance to me and what I consider as the priority this year is that we are going to hold six consultations to deliver resources directly to the communities,” President Maduro explained, referring to communal projects. “Four of these consultations will be for general community projects. The fifth one will be for projects specifically for the youth. Meanwhile, the other consultation will be for projects for the cultural pioneers and everything within the mission for culture, the Great Mission Viva Venezuela My Beloved Homeland.”
He went on to explain how the new communal budget will be applied. “We created the Budgetary Fund for Community Projects, which, we estimate, will have the equivalent of $600 million. It is the nation’s budget that is put directly into the communities, and they decide their priorities—this will have an immense impact on the quality of life in the communities.”
Regarding the new great missions created in 2024, President Maduro stressed that they will strengthen Commander Hugo Chávez’s original concept of the missions and great missions. “The great missions of the new generation come from the strategic structural point of view for sectors that were the hardest hit in the economic war, the US criminal sanctions,” he said.
He listed these programs: the Great Mission Venezuela Woman, the Great Mission Venezuela Youth, the Great Mission for the Grandfathers and Grandmothers of the Homeland, the Great Mission Viva Venezuela My Beloved Homeland, and the Great Mission for Equality.
“In addition to this, the housing and habitat program will focus on the unification of the objectives of the Great Venezuela Housing Mission (GMVV) and the New Neighborhood Tricolor Neighborhood Great Mission (GMBNBT), with new methods that Venezuelan families need for the construction and repair of decent housing,” he stated.
“We have very clear priorities, we have the plan, we have the will, we have the support of the people, and I believe that the year 2025 and the years to come are going to be truly exceptional, wonderful,” he added.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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