Chávez invited to govern from the streets and “not from a palace”

The Eternal Commander Hugo Chávez invited the authorities of the Bolivarian Government to govern from the streets and not from a palace.

“You have to go to the streets, stand on a street corner and ask people if they have any problems,” Chávez said from the Miraflores Palace on December 10, 2010.

He insisted that we must be rulers from the street, listening and solving problems, “not locked in a palace all day”. “We must not be bureaucratized, gentrified, trapped by the old state, the bourgeois state, in bourgeois culture,” he emphasized

He insisted on showing people's faces, “you can't be afraid of the people”, in that sense, he recalled that one day a man who had AIDS approached him. “I said, well let's evaluate him quickly, get his blood out, he's a human being. You can't be afraid of even being assaulted, shouted at, questioned,” he said.

He asserted that in Venezuela there was never a government that stood up to them, “lead was what they told him.”