Caracas.- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás
Maduro, presented this Thursday a plan to face the climate crisis and announced the celebration, next December, of a "world ecosocialist congress" with the participation of "the main academic, scientific" and Earth defense voices against what he called "predatory capitalism".
From the state of Mérida (west), one of those affected by the recent rains in the Caribbean country, the president activated the so-called Great Mission Mother Earth Venezuela, in order to "transform Venezuelan society" and that it is prepared "for the new climate reality".
"This year has been hard and we must be prepared because the rains are there," expressed the leader of Chavismo, for whom they are "manifestations of nature reacting to the aggression of a century and a half of predatory capitalism."
According to the Presidency, the new program's tasks include organizing the citizenry, reforesting degraded areas, conducting a study of the hydrographic basins and constructing risk maps, strengthening the capacities for measuring, collecting, and processing climate data, protecting the fauna, and taking measures for waste treatment, among others.
Maduro pointed out that, in addition to Venezuela, there have also been "major floods and destruction" in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Mexico and the US state of Texas, with whose people he expressed solidarity.
"One also sees the colossal fires (...) in Turkey, in Syria, in Spain, floods in Russia, floods in China, it is a new climate reality and, for the new climate reality, we, with the thought of (Simón) Bolívar and with the ecosocialism founded by Commander (Hugo) Chávez, today we raise and activate a great mission," he expressed.
In this context, he convened a "world congress in defense of Mother Earth" for the 19th, 20th, and 21st of December in Venezuela, as part of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the Chuquisaca Decree on environmental protection, promulgated by the Liberator Simón Bolívar in 1825.
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