GLOBOVISION — Argumentos 20260806 030000 UTC 848 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:00] the state. The participation of private entities, [00:00:44] express my condolences to all the people [00:00:46] to receive family members who are in who have lost family members or loved ones due to [00:00:49] the double seismic event that we had on June 24. Well, [00:00:53] and precisely to talk about this process [00:00:56] of reconstruction plans, we see that [00:00:59] sharing knowledge, which in the end is what there are plans being developed by different entities, from [00:01:02] universities, from the national [00:01:05] government, all [00:01:08] working on these reconstruction plans. And from IESA, they are also [00:01:12] they are nourishing themselves with, of course, working on that strategic reconstruction plan. Tell us a little [00:01:15] about these plans and how to understand how reconstruction [00:01:19] should be guided [00:01:21] today. Well, thank you for commenting. Very good question. We at IESA, as [00:01:25] part of our mission as an organization that trains responsible [00:01:28] leaders and managers, saw this as an important [00:01:32] opportunity for the country to rethink what to do. That's why we like the word [00:01:36] "repair" more than "reconstruction," because sometimes it's not necessarily about [00:01:40] rebuilding something in a certain scheme, but simply starting to [00:01:43] work with what we have, because let's understand that this [00:01:48] doublet. It is really because the situation we are experiencing now in Venezuela, not only because of the double [00:01:50] seismic event but also because of the humanitarian crisis we had a short while [00:01:54] ago that has not yet been resolved, we are still dealing with it, plus [00:01:58] other issues. The reopening, so to speak, [00:02:02] of the oil issue that is being reactivated in a [00:02:05] potentially interesting way for the country's [00:02:09] recovery. That's why we like to talk about recovery. So we [00:02:13] see this as a moment where this is a situation that does not [00:02:16] tolerate improvisation, so it must be planned, we must be [00:02:20] sure where we want to go. The planning process has two parts: the first [00:02:24] part is where I want to go, but the most important is where I am, what [00:02:27] I have, what my resources are. So the invitation to... the organizations that are in [00:02:31] contact with us at IESA is precisely that part of the things we are doing is [00:02:35] trying to understand what moment we are in. Venezuela changed [00:02:38] a lot in the last 12 months, some talk about the last 8 months, [00:02:42] and I dare say more than the last 12. So here the context that we [00:02:46] have to ask ourselves as organizations, as leaders that we are, [00:02:49] that investment fund was set up in both in the public sector and in the Venezuelan private sector, is [00:02:54] have. It's not about where do we see ourselves in this picture, what does it mean to be [00:02:57] Venezuelan? The Vargas issue. It is a scar [00:03:01] that we will have to carry. [00:03:03] We still carry the one from 1812. This will already be part of [00:03:08] to rescue our DNA as Venezuelans, but [00:03:10] we have, we will not let the legacy that they were building be lost. [00:03:14] This is a time to start building [00:03:17] and repairing those things that we can so that this [00:03:20] legacy continues, as happened in 1812, as happened in [00:03:24] 1900, as happened in 1967, and as [00:03:28] has just happened now in 2028. 26, sure, but with the case, for [00:03:31] example, in La Guaira, specifically when [00:03:36] 150 billion dollars. What the landslide issue [00:03:39] occurred in 1999, there are also people who say that well, that scar [00:03:46] situation. It is very, very difficult what 2026 for our country. The case of was also marked there, even for the people who lost family members, who lost their home, even well, it was difficult [00:03:49] for them to resume and it wasn't given perhaps as complete [00:03:53] measures so that these people could resume their [00:03:57] life dynamics. So of course, there are factors there to con... consider in [00:04:00] some way, but for that, so that the people who today have [00:04:04] those difficulties, as you say, well, in repairing, it's about [00:04:08] trying to see how they can reinsert themselves again into their life [00:04:12] dynamics, into society, into work, right? That's why the topic of [00:04:15] rethinking ourselves in the present comes up. The case of La Guaira, what are we going [00:04:18] to do with it? Are we going to continue building homes, or rather, what [00:04:22] about tall buildings? I mean, we're going to more smaller [00:04:25] homes. What is the form of tourism? What can our organizations do to [00:04:28] adapt to this new reality? We are going back a lot [00:04:32] to the model of what Venezuela was like in the pre-oil [00:04:35] planning capacity, era, where growth was precisely towards the oil zones, [00:04:38] not towards the urban zones. That's a question we could ask ourselves [00:04:42] in this context. Well, if the new Venezuelan reality seems to be more focused [00:04:46] again on the oil industry, which, by [00:04:49] the way, thank God, did not suffer [00:04:52] promotes solidarity significant damage from this double seismic event. For those who ask [00:04:56] if the earthquake was caused by fracking, fracking is not done in Venezuela, [00:05:00] and seismic zones are not oil zones. Precisely, [00:05:04] what we have seen, the level of awareness oil zones are where there are no earthquakes. So that's a question we can ask ourselves. And in the case of [00:05:07] IESA, I take this opportunity to invite you to visit us on our social [00:05:10] media, for example, @confiltro. yesa on Instagram, [00:05:14] and the website isa.edu.b, [00:05:17] where we have not only the catalog of products that we are precisely [00:05:21] refocusing, because these are products that we historically had at IESA, [00:05:24] but now with that vision of how to rebuild, how to [00:05:28] recover capacities, how to build new capacities [00:05:31] rather than rebuilding them, but the reality is different, it's another [00:05:35] world. We also have things, for example, for organizations whose situations [00:05:38] are very specific, we have in-company courses that are custom-designed [00:05:42] for each of them based on their context. For example, [00:05:46] companies that were looking to leave the capital zone, well, because [00:05:50] I want to explore the opportunity to enter the oil sector, both in the east and in [00:05:53] the west, the livestock sector, which has also been growing a lot in recent [00:05:57] years, and well, the livestock sector also did not suffer [00:06:00] significant damage from the earthquake. The cows didn't realize much of what [00:06:04] happened. This [00:06:07] well, and all the issues we handle both in consulting and our entire [00:06:11] catalog of products, which historically, seeking responsible [00:06:14] leadership, now we see it as a way to empower that [00:06:18] change towards where we want to aim. The [00:06:21] Venezuela that was born in this 2026, with [00:06:24] all the situation we are experiencing, cannot be a [00:06:28] copy or an improved version of what we had [00:06:31] two, three, four years ago. It has to be a new Venezuela, a [00:06:35] new construct, and you are part of it, and we want to be here [00:06:39] to help you with that new, how to recover and [00:06:42] how to... build, how to build more, how to build that new [00:06:46] new future. And part of what you say, right, about [00:06:49] using what we have and also using these [00:06:53] training spaces that we have in our country, like IESA, [00:06:56] right? Also a reference in this training [00:06:59] topic, and that invitation you make to people [00:07:03] to join because it all starts with that, with that strategic [00:07:06] thinking, and many engineers also [00:07:09] talked, for example, about their specific sector and said: Well, we must [00:07:13] advance in professionalization, we must advance in training, [00:07:17] and well, this is what they propose, right? Also advancing in that [00:07:20] training in different areas, even in the business field, which is so [00:07:24] necessary at this moment, where well, it calls our attention to [00:07:27] see a different future, we must begin to train ourselves to [00:07:31] think strategically, right, to do things differently, and the training process [00:07:34] is a bidirectional process, it's not only me in the classroom receiving [00:07:38] information from the professor, but vice versa, the professor himself, the same [00:07:41] institution, learning from companies, because one of the beautiful things we have [00:07:45] at IESA, and in general in the entire educational sector, but it's one of the great [00:07:48] strongholds that we have strived for in recent years at IESA, [00:07:52] is that we are part of a community, we have a [00:07:55] networking, connections that help us not only with those things [00:07:59] that have worked in Venezuela at some specific points, to replicate [00:08:03] them as quickly as possible to the rest of the country, because one of the issues [00:08:06] is that we are all in this boat, see it as [00:08:10] well, we lived many years closed off by the issue of functions and all these [00:08:13] issues, but ultimately the only ones who are here to save Venezuela are Venezuelans, [00:08:17] if we are going to think that aliens are going [00:08:20] us, we already saw that this year the reality is completely the [00:08:24] opposite, sure, it's time now to see what corresponds to [00:08:28] us to do and, as you said, with that forward-looking [00:08:31] approach, because certainly today there is an emergency [00:08:35] that needs to be addressed and that really part of all efforts and resources [00:08:38] go into addressing the emergency, but there is also the [00:08:41] projection to... what happens tomorrow, the projection, well, how does the [00:08:45] country continue and as you said, how do the productive sectors continue [00:08:49] and how do we continue to organize ourselves and try, well, that it be, [00:08:53] as you mentioned, a new [00:08:56] the emergency is an example of how improvising [00:08:59] for many years is costing [00:09:02] us. We saw recently, less than 24 hours ago, an earthquake point, and [00:09:06] there are already practically several organizations apologizing publicly [00:09:09] because the level of for them incompetence. For us, [00:09:13] wow, it really makes us think why planning [00:09:16] is important, and let's understand that [00:09:19] in the cases of disasters like the ones we are experiencing here in Venezuela in the [00:09:23] last 30, 40 years, because this is not an earthquake that was already more [00:09:27] or less announced since almost 1960. It was known [00:09:30] that the earthquake that we are now calling the earthquake of 2090 was coming, [00:09:34] so that we understand that this is something that Venezuela is a seismic country, and at least [00:09:37] in this region, that earthquake is expected for that date. [00:09:41] So here the question is, are we going to let the earthquake hit us and have the same [00:09:44] level of disorganization? And those are public policies, [00:09:48] that issue of public policies is oriented to us as Venezuelans and how society responds to [00:09:52] it. But your organization or your organizations or your future organizations, [00:09:56] because we are not only talking about older [00:09:59] leaders, we are talking about that young person who is at this moment asking [00:10:02] themselves what they are going to do with their life, understanding [00:10:05] that you are part of a society that will accompany you, [00:10:09] which historically or lived these last months, this [00:10:12] month responds to [00:10:16] and pride in being Venezuelan that we have had with the way we [00:10:20] have helped each other as a society shows us a lot that Venezuelans [00:10:23] can, because I know many people say that Venezuelans are incompetent, [00:10:27] no, no, quite the opposite, what we saw in the last few weeks has shown us, we can do this and more, [00:10:31] imagine if we had done it with an organized plan, as many [00:10:34] of us have, I'm not going to say discussed, [00:10:38] but that it has been tried to promote, but in the end they were just [00:10:42] ideas, so the idea is to move to the next stage. Yes, no, and really the [00:10:46] capacity of Venezuelans we saw it, right? The deployment, the determination, and I think [00:10:50] that these are those elements, well, that are there and that it is important [00:10:53] to channel them in the correct way and that, well, they also help us [00:10:57] to boost what comes next and for the next [00:11:01] phases, right, also of this reconstruction plan. Let's go to the break and we'll be right back. [00:12:56] More than 20 years analyzing in depth the most [00:12:59] impactful events on the international agenda, the [00:13:01] journey through international scenarios, with the impact of [00:13:04] images and the power of words, pioneers in [00:13:07] providing a space for understanding within the framework of [00:13:11] diplomatic relations and current [00:13:14] geopolitics. Ambassador Julio César Pineda [00:13:18] shows the cardinal points of the events that [00:13:21] transcend our borders. International Compass Monday [00:13:26] to Friday at 2 in the afternoon and embassies and [00:13:30] ambassadors, Sundays 7:30 in the [00:13:34] evening on Globovisión. [00:13:37] Good morning to all our [00:14:44] held meetings with international organizations such as the [00:14:48] UN. They have presented these plans to execute, [00:14:51] and plans that aim to start right away, also with [00:14:55] phases to complete, areas to review, nine [00:14:59] sectors to supervise. How do you also see the issue of [00:15:02] this international aid and that they add to how [00:15:06] these reconstruction plans should also advance? Of course, with pleasure. The [00:15:09] UN case is basically using what we might call institutionalized [00:15:13] recipes, good practices that were implemented [00:15:16] in the case of the earthquake in Turkey and are adapted and [00:15:19] permeate for the Venezuelan case, but the important thing is that these are... emergency [00:15:23] measures, they are supposed to be very short-term, [00:15:27] not expected to last more than two, three [00:15:30] months, supposedly while the Venezuelan economy manages to get back on its [00:15:33] feet and manages, well, because ultimately it's aid, it's not that they are [00:15:37] taking control of all Venezuelan logistics. [00:15:40] A crisis like the one Venezuela just suffered [00:15:44] with the seismic event in Vargas is an enormous [00:15:47] pressure on [00:15:50] moment, at the moment. That's why the emergency response is basically while this [00:15:56] readjusts, but it has to adapt to the new [00:15:59] reality, what are the most important zones, in the case of the state of La Guaira, there's [00:16:03] the discussion of well, you can leave the city [00:16:07] and the state, to other family members who can receive you. Believe me, that helps [00:16:10] enormously, I have to say it here responsibly, I know it's about [00:16:14] leaving home and the lifelong home, [00:16:17] but the reality is that you are dealing with it, you are feeling it at that [00:16:20] moment. Those who are able [00:16:24] La Guaira or different places, both in their home, imagine [00:16:28] the state of Yaracuy, or Yaracuy, no, it also suffered an earthquake, the state of Merida [00:16:31] or something like that that were not heavily affected, the state of [00:16:34] Anzoátegui is also a good option to show solidarity with family or [00:16:38] friends even. So here's where the issue comes in, the rest of the national [00:16:42] economy has to readjust to this new context. The repair of La Guaira [00:16:46] is not going to be something short, we are not talking about it functioning [00:16:49] in 3 or 4 years, we are talking about how we experienced it with the case of the [00:16:52] landslide, which was of much smaller [00:16:55] magnitudes than this disaster. Obviously it will take some time, La [00:16:58] Guaira, you have to ask yourself the question, as an [00:17:02] engineer, what will its existence be like in the next 20, [00:17:06] 25, 30 years? And we have received two horrible [00:17:09] scares in less than 25 years. I think it's a divine [00:17:13] sign that we cannot continue as we are [00:17:16] doing, understanding that there is pain due to the [00:17:20] fact that, well, it's a very beloved region in Venezuela and its new [00:17:23] reality is different. Regarding the case of humanitarian [00:17:27] aid and these kinds of things, let's remember that these are aids, they are things that have to be paid for [00:17:30] later, basically what you have is a quick credit line so that [00:17:33] you can solve it and then Venezuela has to pay for it. Obviously, there are ways to pay for it, [00:17:37] in money, well, through refinancing or [00:17:40] paying directly from the funds or the others helping, because these are things [00:17:44] that also, well, at one time were famous for payment in kind, so [00:17:48] seeing that context and all that new reality, the invitation [00:17:51] not only to the government but to all Venezuelans in general, we have to all agree to seek [00:17:55] the repair and recovery as soon [00:17:58] as possible because understanding that this is an atypical [00:18:01] context, as specialists call it, the famous black [00:18:05] swan, and we have had so many black swans that this looks more like [00:18:08] a black swan breeding ground, but one of the issues that needs to be done is [00:18:12] where do we want to go? [00:18:14] We have already, reality is overwhelming [00:18:18] us, yes, of course, and what we have seen also on past occasions, as you say, [00:18:22] there are different situations that we have faced as [00:18:25] Venezuelans, perhaps, well, also in a short time, [00:18:28] but to reflect when one reviews, many [00:18:32] times it's like, well, proposals, ideas, plans emerge, and as we already discussed, [00:18:36] they remain on paper [00:18:40] and do not become sustainable projects or programs over [00:18:43] time, and in this case, well, reconstruction, [00:18:47] recovery, it is necessary that it be sustainable over [00:18:51] time and to think about La Guaira, well, addressing the emergency of today, addressing the people [00:18:54] who today were affected, of course, doing it [00:18:58] responsibly, consciously, sensitively, but also thinking about what [00:19:01] you said, what will La Guaira be like in 20, [00:19:04] 30 years, rethinking what [00:19:07] technology, what professionals are needed [00:19:11] for those projects that, well, are long-term, but it's like, [00:19:15] well, there are many areas to work on, yes, I know it [00:19:18] sounds cruel to be talking about long-term when we have so many crises [00:19:22] right now, but the planning process [00:19:24] is like that, we know how we are right now, no one denies that [00:19:27] we are at a moment where we have to help all [00:19:30] our brothers in La Guaira, that will not be denied, but we also have to ask ourselves those [00:19:34] questions, but that planning, as I said, is sometimes [00:19:38] painful, but it is necessary. President [00:19:41] Eisenhower said that the plan of [00:19:45] the battle, in this case military issues, [00:19:48] was not important, the planning process was. Here it is exactly the same, [00:19:52] sitting down to think about where we wanted to be, what is the vision of the country we want [00:19:56] within 3 days, 6 months, [00:20:00] a year, 5 years, 10 years, because Venezuelan history is that [00:20:03] we were, they told us we were short-sighted, that we thought... [00:20:07] it was day-to-day, something that has been shown not to be true, Venezuelans had a very good [00:20:13] what happens is that Venezuelan reality overwhelmed them, because let's be honest, how many [00:20:16] mothers are not thinking about what they want to do with their children and that their children be baseball players, [00:20:20] be doctors, medics, Venezuelans have that long-term [00:20:24] planning capacity, what happens is that reality overwhelmed us. That's where the issue comes in, we have [00:20:27] to, as organizations, and as part of that, also our friends in the state, [00:20:31] ask the question of where we want to be as a country in the [00:20:35] next 20, 30, 50, 90 years because by [00:20:38] 2090 we will have this double [00:20:41] event again, not just another double seismic event or [00:20:45] another earthquake like that probably because it's going to [00:20:48] happen because it's a seismic country and an earthquake and beyond thinking [00:20:52] of it as a date to fear, it's about understanding, [00:20:55] well, we are in a seismic country with activity that can [00:20:59] vary, where it rather calls our attention to advance in that [00:21:02] seismic culture, conversing with some [00:21:05] engineers and they used as reference, [00:21:09] Mexico, of Japan, and they said, well, there what they use is seismic [00:21:13] coexistence, and well, here we have to learn that, which perhaps we had not [00:21:16] done in the past, understanding how important it is to have that [00:21:20] culture, to supervise all the processes and that people [00:21:24] are somehow prepared for this type of [00:21:27] events and that if today we ask people [00:21:30] in general if they feel prepared, we still have work to [00:21:34] do there in different areas, yes, no, in seismic case there is the issue, for [00:21:37] example, of how to re-educate ourselves or how we are going to [00:21:41] talk, as the planners really talk, does it make sense that Venezuelans [00:21:44] still live in the seismic zone being such a large [00:21:47] country with so many extensions? That's why we have to ask that question from the planning [00:21:51] point of view. We already had the seismic culture [00:21:54] from before, unfortunately it was not the most convenient and it overwhelmed us. Let's also [00:21:58] understand that this situation historically overwhelmed us, particularly, really, this [00:22:02] is such an atypical case that we don't need many technical debates, but to [00:22:05] give you a comment, simply within the college of engineers we have not yet finished [00:22:08] understanding and within the Venezuelan scientific community, studies continue [00:22:12] and even, well, updates, right? Like the issue of [00:22:15] relocating the epicenter, that is one, here we are talking about [00:22:19] understanding what happened. [00:22:32] That's why let's understand that this is happening and we are not going to deny it. [00:22:35] Specifically on the topic of what we do, again the emphasis on [00:22:38] planning is the big question we have to ask ourselves: where [00:22:42] do we want to go? Because more important even [00:22:45] than what we can do, how we educate ourselves and all this, is [00:22:48] knowing what we are going to educate ourselves on. [00:22:51] There are skills that can be very useful at this moment, but in 5 or 6 years they won't make [00:22:55] much sense. I always bring up the issue of artificial intelligence, 5 or 6 [00:22:58] years ago it was important to program, today it is not so much [00:23:02] because the system already takes away that part of the job, of course, that [00:23:06] is a good question, right? The part about where we are heading [00:23:10] and how I am training future generations in [00:23:14] that area, right? And the issue of staying updated, right? And that call for attention [00:23:17] also to the universities. And there is a series [00:23:21] of factors also that influence, right, when we review how the [00:23:24] universities are working, the financing, there are [00:23:27] many factors that in the end well, determine that it costs [00:23:31] to advance and achieve to prepare for [00:23:34] that future in 20 [00:24:48] vision. 2 years [00:24:51] and as a result of what [00:24:54] was this tragedy that really not [00:24:57] only affected the air but an entire nation, we [00:25:01] had to turn our program into 24 months in which [00:25:05] we can serve at least 5000 children, and I say at [00:25:08] least because 500 children is a [00:25:12] very low number for what we are facing, but one also has to [00:25:16] know how much they can cover. Another vision, [00:25:20] Saturday at 1 in the afternoon on [00:25:22] Globovisión. [00:25:32] Venezuela lived immersed in permanent military [00:25:35] campaigns, ambushed epidemics and [00:25:39] unexpected defeats. Each battle could be the [00:25:41] last. [00:25:43] 1818. [00:25:45] In the middle of the campaign, a piece of news explodes in Europe. [00:25:50] Bolívar has died, without glory or [00:25:54] witnesses. A newspaper affirms it, [00:25:57] others repeat it, and like an echo, alliances [00:26:01] fall. Troops dissolve and [00:26:05] hope fades. This Sunday, discover [00:26:08] how a printed lie almost [00:26:12] buried freedom before it was born, [00:26:15] hosted by Inocencio Figueroa Sunday in the [00:26:19] news rounds at 9:30 in the morning [00:26:23] and 12 noon on [00:26:26] Globovisión. [00:27:03] saw an interview they did with Vicente Zabarce, who [00:27:07] is the CEO of a Venezuelan mobility company, and he [00:27:10] said that the best way to change the world is by creating a company [00:27:14] that changes things. We cannot wait for the conditions to be [00:27:17] given to act. The reality we design [00:27:21] ourselves, in a polarized country, the emergency reminded [00:27:24] us that we have common goals. The [00:27:27] reconstruction of the country does not depend only on those [00:27:31] within its borders. What we have to do is build a country inside and outside [00:27:35] the country, not feel guilt, but rather [00:27:38] ask ourselves, how can I be useful for my country from where [00:27:42] I am? And that applies to those who are here and he said that [00:27:46] for him Venezuela was a [00:27:48] blank canvas to build, to start to [00:27:52] recover, how that vision, perhaps of [00:27:55] an entrepreneur from their vision also of people who are outside, who are inside, [00:27:59] influence, right, in this whole process of working [00:28:03] in that Venezuela, as you said, that we see in the future, well, [00:28:06] thinking 20, 30 years ahead, also thinking about issues like, well, how [00:28:10] is our oil production today, how do we plan for [00:28:14] those future, perhaps, [00:28:18] jobs, how will the labor market be, issues [00:28:22] of planning, right, that include many aspects, but [00:28:25] it is important to prepare to have that [00:28:28] future and that it depends on each person who is here from each one. [00:28:33] Absolutely, understanding how wonderful the phrase is, what's it called? [00:28:36] If you want to change the world, you can do it with a company, which is completely valid, [00:28:40] but it's not the only one. We handle several theoretical models to not go into [00:28:44] too much detail about where the source comes from, but well, you can also make important changes on [00:28:48] the part of the state, which in the end is the one that all [00:28:52] economic agents are supposed to be the most planned, the most [00:28:55] strict, we also have civil [00:28:59] society, how do you plan as for this issue, for example, of NGOs and all [00:29:02] these organizations that one sees as well, it seems that they are more for the [00:29:06] gallery public, and it is quite the opposite, they are organizations that have a [00:29:09] very deep spiritual and human background as we are seeing right now with the [00:29:13] issue of the water and other issues of the earthquake, which is a recurring theme in all the [00:29:17] interviews. Another topic that we can do with this issue [00:29:20] of, as I said, the topic of planning is not just something [00:29:24] isolated, it is not where we [00:29:27] want to aim as a nation, where we want to aim as an organization, where we want to aim [00:29:31] as a person, that's why it is multidimensional. There is also [00:29:34] the issue of where do I fit in. The [00:29:38] company has a very important factor and value and this is [00:29:41] really important, but also entrepreneurs are part of that [00:29:44] organization, that initiative, that reconstruction of the country, that is, the first [00:29:48] as you asked me, how can we see ourselves, how [00:29:51] do we form those people? So there is that issue of you as a young person, you [00:29:54] as a person with a little more life experience, not to say [00:29:58] old, where what capacities do I have right now, how can [00:30:02] I improve them? The typical question we ask ourselves is, [00:30:05] for example, the issue of artificial intelligence that is very in vogue right now, that we have several products with [00:30:09] respect to that in Ellieza, precisely focusing them on the Venezuelan [00:30:12] reality where the context of all companies are not the [00:30:15] same, there are some that are much more advanced in these areas, such as all [00:30:19] technology companies, but others that are not as advanced, such as livestock. Of course, a [00:30:23] cow does not work with electricity, but [00:30:26] well, it does work, but in another format, and I think that should also be [00:30:30] reviewed. The issue of public services, right? Public service, how do [00:30:33] those plans for recovering the electrical system [00:30:36] advance, and that suddenly well, now there are many things that are [00:30:40] added, but it is still within all the emergency that [00:30:44] we have, these factors are necessary, right, to [00:30:48] somehow repair, reconstruct what we have been talking about, and that [00:30:51] somehow also works to activate the productive sector. [00:30:55] That and the issue of services in general, well, public services are more [00:30:58] delicate because we are seeing a 180-degree change in vision. [00:31:03] The state managed to understand once and for all that overconcentration [00:31:06] does not work, and unfortunately it has no [00:31:09] function and it makes no sense that not all public services can be managed solely by [00:31:15] what are known as the famous public-private partnerships, are perfectly [00:31:18] functional. In fact, the new electricity law precisely points in that [00:31:22] direction, allowing the participation of private companies. [00:31:24] Evidently, we will have to do the same with all other services, such as [00:31:28] roads, health. In health, [00:31:33] the issue of water, which is another one that also has no private [00:31:36] participation. Why? Because the important thing as a nation is that the service [00:31:39] works, that it responds to the needs of Venezuelans [00:31:43] and, most importantly, that... the direction we all want, because we all want to have [00:31:46] cheap electricity, but it's not always possible to have it. So why do you want to have [00:31:50] cheap electricity? You want to use it to improve the quality of life of Venezuelans, [00:31:54] now, or do you want to improve national industry? That was one of [00:31:57] the big questions Venezuela asked in the 80s with the [00:32:00] electrical system we had, if we were going to use it to develop national industry or [00:32:04] if we were simply going to use it to improve the quality of life of [00:32:07] Venezuelans. The answer was directed towards Venezuelans and we are paying the consequences [00:32:11] for it now, yes, and it is tough, right, to look at it when those [00:32:15] decisions are made, at what cost we then have to [00:32:18] understand after years, those consequences and that have [00:32:22] even made life difficult for Venezuelans today in many [00:32:26] regions, well, the electrical issue is 5, 6, [00:32:29] or 8 hours and it is constant. In the Andean zone, it can be [00:32:33] up to more than 14 hours, and I give this as an example of why it is [00:32:37] important that this industry, that is to say, this situation [00:32:40] does not accept improvisation. The [00:32:44] short-term thinking is not short-term thinking. It is improvisation [00:32:48] if it is not aligned with long-term thinking. [00:32:51] Let that be clear. I don't know, Venezuelans have gotten used to [00:32:55] short-term being practically 2 hours, but we have to start thinking about the country [00:32:58] 10, 15, 20 years ahead and where do I fit [00:33:02] in as an organization? It may be that an organization does not last 10, 15 years, for example, a [00:33:05] company that sells long plays is no longer needed today, but well, that will be [00:33:09] more for issues of what's called nostalgia, but the music industry [00:33:12] still continues and is really now in service. Of streaming, the industry adapts [00:33:16] to reality, yes, of course, it updates, it plans, [00:33:20] it investigates, somehow it's like, well, not improvising, but [00:33:23] looking at the long term, let's go to the break, [00:33:46] Banco de Venezuela, because your greatest value [00:33:50] is you, invites you to watch [00:33:53] Globovisión Sports News. Before going on [00:33:57] air, there is an instant that no one sees, the order of [00:34:01] each note, the calm before the [00:34:04] signal and the value that each word must [00:34:09] filling a screen, but about inhabiting your [00:34:13] reality, because informing is not just saying what [00:34:16] happens, but going beyond [00:34:20] that reality. 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[00:37:06] industry, how it is advancing in this context and as [00:37:10] I said, it is not affected but it is still in that process of [00:37:13] recovery and we also saw after that process of [00:37:17] making the adjustments, the reform of the hydrocarbon [00:37:20] law, those changes also that had to be adapted to, how [00:37:24] that panorama is also there and those resources [00:37:27] also that must come from that [00:37:30] industry, how to use them efficiently in this [00:37:34] context in which we are. Of course, in the oil sector, as the first [00:37:37] point I mentioned, it did not suffer major damages due to the earthquake. [00:37:41] The two Venezuelan oil zones, which are the oil producing regions and Lake [00:37:45] Maracaibo, did not suffer damages that [00:37:48] significantly limit production. According to [00:37:51] OPEC numbers, we only managed to [00:37:55] increase production in June by approximately 8,000 barrels per day for a country [00:37:58] that produces 1.1 million, which is not a significantly important [00:38:02] number. This was due to the electricity crisis in June, which by the way is more or less [00:38:06] as bad as in July. One of the reasons why it is not expected that this [00:38:10] July will significantly increase production is not because of the seismic [00:38:16] industry is as Venezuelan as all of us. [00:38:19] It is suffering the same thing that we are experiencing with [00:38:23] respect to how to plan this industry, which has been [00:38:27] a school of thought for more than 100 [00:38:30] years. [00:38:32] Some call it resistance to change, others simply call it [00:38:35] reality. The world, until about 3 or 4 years ago, [00:38:39] talked about renewable energies displacing the entire oil sector, and [00:38:43] now the oil sector is the one that is challenging the rest of the [00:38:46] world. We are seeing it with the case of Hormuz Strait, which is a reality that a new beast has just [00:38:50] been created in the Middle East, the case of Iran that can block oil [00:38:53] production and with respect to the resources that in the end we are [00:38:57] going to use. The oil industry is the one that will end up paying for all [00:39:00] these repairs, but not directly, but indirectly, [00:39:03] developing the rest of the country, so that it can respond precisely in [00:39:07] these new realities, as some tend to [00:39:11] call them, and in this case, this is where the issue comes in of why [00:39:16] the White House that the Financial Times has been talking about, that it's 13 billion, [00:39:20] others talk about 9 billion, others even talk about 6 million dollars. We are [00:39:23] talking about practically half of what Venezuela's [00:39:27] income has been in the last 8 months [00:39:30] that we don't know where it is. The answer is that we do know where it is, it is [00:39:34] basically in Qatar, currently not within the United States, [00:39:37] although there are already discussions about moving it within the United States, because the point is [00:39:41] that they are planning for us, how do we have to [00:39:45] do so that those Venezuelans understand once and for all what to spend the [00:39:48] money on, because that is what is being discussed. The oil industry, as we [00:39:51] said, knows very well what needs to be done. Currently, the situation in Venezuela is how to [00:39:55] recover oil production, how to pay for these teams to be able to do it, and we [00:39:59] are not talking about small teams, we are talking about investments of up to [00:40:04] we have recovered right now is not even 10% of what is needed. What [00:40:07] is needed, that tells us that in 10 years we could recover it, God willing, [00:40:11] but this is an industry that does not tolerate [00:40:14] improvisation, quite the opposite, planning is the key and that generates [00:40:18] confidence in investors. Many companies that are here in Venezuela, these [00:40:21] mixed companies, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Repsol, one of the objectives they are [00:40:25] we believe that we are finally [00:40:29] aligned with Venezuelan planning, where Venezuela [00:40:32] wants to aim, we want to aim in that direction. One of the nice things about [00:40:35] planning, more than having the plan, is that you manage to identify [00:40:39] where you fit into that reality. Here, Venezuelans [00:40:42] historically lived off oil as an inexhaustible [00:40:45] source of resources, [00:40:49] and what we have experienced in the last 10 years is that it does run out, and it's not that [00:40:53] oil itself runs out, because there are no variables that influence it, it's not variables, but [00:40:57] the point is that the Venezuelan economy cannot always be dependent on the oil industry, but [00:41:01] it is there to help us. After all, it is Venezuela's flagship industry [00:41:04] and one of our added values or competitive advantages that no [00:41:07] one else has, or very few countries. The world's main [00:41:11] oil reserves and the sixth largest gas reserves. Rather, everyone is seeing [00:41:15] an opportunity to say, if Venezuela gets serious, we'll join [00:41:19] you in that boat. One thing I want Venezuelans to understand is that it's not that the [00:41:23] rest of the world sees us with hatred, that we didn't want to make investments in Venezuela, quite [00:41:26] the opposite. What they want is to be sure that we are all [00:41:30] rowing in the same direction, and these are industries that you [00:41:34] row together and we all go to the same place together with [00:41:37] responsibility and efficiency. 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[00:49:58] We are at this hour from the Chacao municipality where there is [00:50:02] an operations base of an international humanitarian [00:50:05] aid organization, Operation Blessing, and we met with one of its representatives, [00:50:09] José Ramón Esquer, who is in charge of the entire [00:50:12] humanitarian operation here in Venezuela, with [00:50:15] a large number of volunteers working in this space preparing hot [00:50:19] meals, but well, I want you to show us the place, tell people [00:50:22] about some of the aid you are providing and that for us in this circumstance [00:50:26] in Venezuela is so valuable, that effort made by international [00:50:30] organizations with the help of Venezuelan [00:50:32] volunteers. In reality, it is a blessing to be here and to be able to combine [00:50:36] efforts for the [00:50:39] has happened and we really like working here, [00:50:43] we have identified too much potential to continue blessing through [00:50:46] churches, through allies, spaces like yours that lend us the [00:50:50] microphone to speak to your audience. [00:50:53] We have been here since day 2, we arrived here in Venezuela [00:50:56] and began to identify the needs in which we [00:51:00] could serve, and one of them is food, another is [00:51:04] water. We started by attending to those parts. Right now we have a [00:51:07] production that cooks between 3,400 hot meals a [00:51:11] day that will be distributed mostly to the affected areas and [00:51:14] some here in the Caracas area that suffered damage in their [00:51:18] buildings, but well, it is [00:51:21] wonderful because we have many volunteers, many people [00:51:24] who trust in the mission and who join efforts, well, the [00:51:28] truth is that the gratitude is on the other side for allowing us to be here and [00:51:31] help them in these critical moments. Well, we are [00:51:34] precisely in front of the Lido center in El Rosal, [00:51:38] here in Chacao, precisely on Francisco Miranda Avenue so that people [00:51:42] also know and can come to collaborate at this space. Yes, every day we receive [00:51:46] between 15 and 20 new volunteers and about [00:51:49] 40 to 50 who had already come on other days. Everyone is [00:51:52] welcome, spread the message because there is always [00:51:56] something to do and we are always limited by hands, but [00:51:59] right now as we are speaking we have 70, 75 [00:52:03] volunteers, of course. going and telling us [00:52:06] as we walk, yes, that [00:52:09] voluntarily come, most of [00:52:12] them who did not suffer [00:52:14] damages, let's say maybe a quarter of them did and [00:52:18] who find a space here to serve and have a little normalcy in their [00:52:22] days, of course, how people or at what times [00:52:26] each one comes, they are assigned tasks where they should be, how they are distributed [00:52:30] here in their operations base, well, we have different [00:52:33] moments, from cleaning the space, we really maintain very, very, very [00:52:37] high hygiene standards for the same [00:52:40] reason not to produce any type of affectation, [00:52:44] also the topic of preparations, cutting the food, having it [00:52:48] washed, others are in [00:52:50] the kitchen, being in the part of the cooking [00:52:54] and so on and others more in the part [00:52:58] of preparing the food trays, the platters to [00:53:01] distribute already prepared to the spaces. We have to do it like this because of the health [00:53:05] issue in the affected places, there are many [00:53:08] flies, the cleaning possibilities are very limited, so we take them in [00:53:12] this way to protect the health of people in what [00:53:17] taking care of each of the [00:53:21] details and the delivery chain, and well, this is for the [00:53:24] production you are seeing right now, but we have also done other types of [00:53:28] activities to bless children, to bless [00:53:32] families, games, psychological activities. [00:53:35] support for rescuers, we have [00:53:38] an initiative to install purification systems in certain [00:53:41] points so that people can go there to fill their large bottles [00:53:44] and stay well hydrated, and [00:53:48] another one is water filters, so for all of that, many volunteers are also needed [00:53:52] for all of that, logistical support is also needed, [00:53:55] in short, here we have found hands and [00:53:57] good people who have [00:54:00] joined us and who inspire us a lot to continue, to go ahead, [00:54:04] truly, because [00:54:07] many of them are having a bad time, who have family members who are [00:54:10] affected or whose own homes are being affected and [00:54:14] who even so are, as we call it, pouring themselves out to serve their [00:54:18] brothers, their families, their neighbors, well, it's wonderful, [00:54:22] truly, sorry if I mention it so much, but I am very [00:54:25] moved by that fraternity that we have seen here, we are [00:54:28] already several weeks after the [00:54:32] tragedy and the participation remains very active. I ask [00:54:36] people to keep that spirit, to keep that [00:54:39] action to be able to continue, right, because we [00:54:43] want to be here for several months, of course, that is your projection, how many months [00:54:47] do you expect to be here in Venezuela, it's difficult to tell you with that accuracy, a date, but for the [00:54:51] moment we are discussing internally, being able to extend it to [00:54:54] about two more months, possibly about [00:54:57] 5 more months, at least, but well, that remains to be seen [00:55:01] according to what we can, to the resources we can acquire more. [00:55:05] national, national, the volunteers, well, all of this will [00:55:08] add up, but it's a little of what we are [00:55:11] planning, of course, and we see that well, this is part of one of those operations [00:55:15] centers, do you have points in other places where you are also [00:55:18] preparing or besides that where you mentioned where people can go and get potable [00:55:22] water as well, yes, in the first weeks we identified other kitchens where [00:55:26] we were producing but we already centralized everything through [00:55:30] this, partly because we already identified a logistics for [00:55:33] distribution and others and a network, let's say, of places we can [00:55:36] reach, from here we are sending everything towards [00:55:40] La Guaira, towards [00:55:42] Caraballeda and the whole region, more or less we are [00:55:46] serving about 20 spaces in that region and another [00:55:50] 10 spaces around here and between Caracas and the affected [00:55:54] area, so no, here is our [00:55:58] operations base and food [00:56:01] production center and here we are distributing it. [00:56:05] We see that this can evolve towards producing more locally, but for [00:56:08] health reasons we decided from here to have control [00:56:12] of logistics, of [00:56:14] production, of getting more ingredients [00:56:17] here very strategically in Francisco de Miranda, yes, yes, it is a very [00:56:21] central point, very central, very central, both for volunteers and for [00:56:24] suppliers and logistics salida of food and [00:56:28] well, also part of seeing that work that we really appreciate, we appreciate [00:56:32] that well, as I said, they do it with great rigor and in the end it's good to address the [00:56:36] needs that exist, for example, for food, so [00:56:38] important, yes, yes, it's a [00:56:42] a truly beautiful work, serving [00:56:45] people and working with people who voluntarily give their [00:56:49] time, give their energy for this is [00:56:52] even more of a blessing, so [00:56:56] eh, no man, for us it's a joy to serve here and [00:56:59] work, yes, that's good and that message that you could [00:57:03] also remind people. Now that they are seeing all the work that is done here and [00:57:07] that it is an effort to make all these hot meals, all the [00:57:11] logistics of taking them, inviting people to continue [00:57:14] participating because as you said they estimate to be here not alone. [00:57:18] Yes, [00:57:22] yes, yes, and particularly [00:57:24] that normalcy begins to reach our homes, to the [00:57:28] news, not to allow that to make us [00:57:32] forget the suffering and the situation that the affected families are going through, [00:57:36] in other words, to keep that flame of service alive and [00:57:39] that and that concern and occupation, because the truth is that everyone [00:57:43] will know, the recovery will take a long time and [00:57:46] the... activities of the affected homes will [00:57:50] need a lot of support, so continue, continue [00:57:53] being active as you have been, in fact, maintain that constancy, [00:57:57] because only in this way will we be able to bring that aid and [00:58:00] hope to people, yes, super important, what country are you from? [00:58:04] I am from Mexico, more in the international team, let's say, that [00:58:07] comes, we have people from Chile, Costa Rica, United [00:58:10] States, [00:58:12] and volunteers from many parts, we also receive volunteers from [00:58:15] Italy, from Brazil. [00:58:18] and well, most of the volunteers are Venezuelan, it's also very, very, very beautiful, [00:58:22] very, very worthy of mentioning and [00:58:25] incredible, there is a lot of similarity between Venezuela and [00:58:28] Mexico and I can notice that [00:58:32] I have a very good time, I don't miss my family, of course, but [00:58:36] I don't feel alien, that's good that you can express that [00:58:40] part of what you feel [00:58:43] being here, seeing the work of the national organizations, [00:58:46] of the Venezuelans, of the volunteers, that's exactly what we need in the [00:58:50] coming weeks and the coming days, to continue addressing those [00:58:53] needs and above all, well, it's not only food but as you said also [00:58:57] that emotional support, that support of hope, not of faith, because they are a [00:59:00] Christian organization, yes, the truth is that [00:59:03] we all have talents and sometimes it [00:59:07] is difficult to find a way to voluntarily put them at [00:59:10] the service, here there is much to do [00:59:14] to cook, to clean, to [00:59:17] prepare food, but if you have some skills, [00:59:21] talents or preparation in terms of [00:59:24] emotional management with children, do not hesitate to approach because that is [00:59:28] how good initiatives also happen where we have an [00:59:32] event and you could participate, well, [00:59:35] that's it, spread the message, keep talking about this, [00:59:38] if not through us, through whoever, the truth is, invest [00:59:42] your time to serve, that will be very very, very necessary and will [00:59:46] serve everyone very much, I can assure you that all the people who come [00:59:50] here leave happier [00:59:53] despite being more tired, [01:00:01] can see what this space is like, for those who want [01:00:04] to approach and can continue as volunteers, because as he says, well, [01:00:07] they have several hours of work, also several [01:00:11] tasks and that people, well, if they pass nearby in Chacao, they can [01:00:15] know where to go and know that they have a space here to collaborate and that at [01:00:19] this moment I think that every effort counts, every effort is important, every [01:00:22] effort is necessary for the current situation and I think that [01:00:26] well, everyone who sees this, we are grateful for that [01:00:30] work they are doing and well, that final farewell and perhaps a [01:00:34] contact point or network where people can find you, thank you, thank you, all our [01:00:37] social networks are Operation Blessing, as it says on the shirt, [01:00:40] we are here in Francisco de [01:00:44] Miranda, this is where you can register as volunteers. [01:00:48] And one of the