Venezuela: President Maduro Celebrates First Anniversary of the Great Women’s Mission

Venezuelan President, Oct 2024 Photo: Prensa Presidencial

October 31, 2024 Hour: 8:52 pm

In the context of the first anniversary of the creation of the Great Mission for Women, President Nicolás Maduro recognized the important role of Venezuelan women in Bolivarian society and stressed that this issue is “central to the country’s political and cultural agenda”.

The Venezuela Women’s Great Mission has demonstrated the justeza of its birth, its existence and the power that “today is having in the Venezuelan reality».

The official also indicated that it was essential that the movement in favor of feminist causes should be organized, a topic he discussed with the Minister for Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality, Jhoanna Carrillo.

“We have to go in search of all the women who want to be protagonists of this new story… the search to tell women: come we go together”, Maduro stressed.

The Venezuelan president recalled the struggles of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, in which discrimination against women was prevalent during the period specifically of the Fourth Republic.

In that sense, he highlighted that it was thanks to the legacy of the Bolivarian Revolution, with Hugo Chávez at the head, that “everything changed and made the issue of women, equality, their rights, the new feminism of the 21st century a central issue on the country’s political and cultural agenda”.

After indicating that the seven vertices that structure the Venezuela Women Mission must be harmonized, Maduro requested that by November 15 the Mission’s directive should deliver the plan that will govern this project for the next six years of government.

The Bolivarian leader also invited women to take to the streets “to take the oath of office as presidents, alongside Maduro,” referring to his swearing in as president of Venezuela on January 10, 2025.

He also urged “to organize the Great Movement Josefa Joaquina Sánchez throughout the country”, while reiterating that this includes the 4,530 communal circuits of the country.