Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro along the leadership of the ruling party PSUV during the plenary of the party's fifth Congress on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Photo: PSUV.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—During the fifth Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the fourth of its youth wing (JPSUV), President Nicolás Maduro declared that if Venezuela is attacked, Latin America and the Caribbean would unite in a single voice of resistance, stating that millions across the region would rise to defend freedom and sovereignty.
“What do they think would happen if Venezuela is touched? Do they think the people would let themselves be humiliated?” President Maduro asked during the plenary of the Congress this Tuesday, November 4. “If Venezuela is touched, it would be a single voice of a united people [responding], all of Latin America and the Caribbean! All Latin Americans and Caribbeans in a single voice of popular and prolonged resistance.”
The president referred to the psychological and cognitive warfare he says the US empire is waging against Venezuela, using mainstream and social media. He noted that countless articles and reports are part of this campaign seeking to sabotage internal unity.
He described these news pieces as part of a “cognitive war” launched by the US, with their proponents using lies and falsehoods. “Because you start reading the articles they publish every day: morning, afternoon, night, Monday, Sunday, Tuesday,” he emphasized, “a cognitive war. And they believe it! The worst part is that they believe it.”
“And what do they think Venezuela is?” the president continued. “What do they have in mind? They don’t know that what the PSUV anthem says is true: We are millions, one voice, one project, one force.”
In his opinion, this is a psychological campaign aimed at distorting Venezuela’s image and generating hatred and rejection towards the country. “There are no sensible minds in US imperialism today,” he explained. “There are no sensible, reasonable minds in the local oligarchy and far-right today.”
“Millions believe in their homeland in the territories that make up the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” President Maduro said, “and millions also believe in freedom in Colombia, in Ecuador, in Brazil, in Peru, in Panama, in Central America, in Mexico, in Cuba, in Nicaragua, and throughout our Latin and Caribbean America.”
From unarmed struggle to armed struggle
During the plenary session, President Maduro announced a series of reforms that would take place in the ruling party, in order to tackle bureaucracy and bring it closer to the grassroots level. He also reported on preparations within the constitutional framework for the comprehensive defense of the homeland.
He reiterated that this framework will facilitate the smooth “transition from non-armed struggle to national and continental armed struggle, if necessary, should Venezuela be attacked by the US empire.”
The Venezuelan president explained that these ideas, systematized in a document presented at the congress, are ready for immediate implementation.
“What I can tell you is that the document presented to me, with the set of ideas for transitioning from non-armed to armed struggle in order to defend the territorial integrity, dignity, right to peace, and the future of Venezuela, has been approved,” President Maduro said. “The PSUV must proceed with its immediate implementation, with an operational order for every street and every community. The operational order must be issued so that our people, calmly, serenely, resolutely, and courageously, are at the highest level of preparedness. Under the maximum pressure of imperial psychological warfare, at the highest level of concrete preparation, the action of an entire country, of an entire people, and we at the forefront,” he concluded.
Bolivarian comprehensive base committees
President Maduro proposed to immediately integrate new organizational forms that strengthen the people’s capacity for action from the ground up, by gathering “the criticism, self-criticism, and proposals of the people, from the streets, from the militants, and the leaders.”
He proposed forming Bolivarian Comprehensive Base Committees (CBBI) in the 264,000 streets of the country, each made up of at least nine spokespeople elected in base assemblies. These spokespeople will take an oath to develop the values, direction, leadership, and comprehensive preparation of the homeland for defense and for the exercise of power.
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“We are going to have a team with a leadership,” the national leader explained, “but functioning as a team with its permanent work agenda, with its action agenda, prioritizing comprehensive and ideological education, prioritizing comprehensive preparation for defense and organizing at the base of each CBBI.”
He emphasized that the formation of the 264,000 CBBI would represent a force of more than 2.5 million men and women who will be active and lead from the grassroots level, and noted that the 15,000 Bolívar Chávez Battle Units (UBHC) remain active in the country’s electoral centers as part of the existing organizational structure.
President Maduro proposed that over the next two weekends, November 8-9 and November 15-16, “we summon our beautiful and beloved people in the 264,000 streets where we have the leaders present, for the new CBBIs that will make history in the country in organizational terms.”
Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff
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