Congresswoman Garvett: The decision to be a Chavista, revolutionary, was her own (+Maduro Podcast)

Member of the National Assembly, Genesis Gervett, in the fifth episode of the Maduro Podcast
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Published at: 17/01/2024 10:09 AM

During her participation in the fifth episode of the Maduro Podcast, the deputy to the National Assembly, Genesis Garvett, assured that the decision to be a Chavista, revolutionary, was her own.

“I thought you were a Chavista because there was an affection, because I came from a Chavista household, my mother was a member of the V Republic Movement, in the house, on every door there are stickers of all the elections, when there was a campaign we saw my mother come and go, but it was my decision, at 13 I decided to become a Chavista,” Garvett said.

The Deputy said that one day a teacher at the high school asked her what socialism was, “I gave her an explanation of the essence of what I understood, but textually, scientifically, I couldn't answer that at the age of 13. That day I left there and I say, but they never ask me again what socialism is and I don't know how to answer.”

“I grabbed the books my mother had, and there was a booklet that said socialism doesn't fall from the sky and there was a bulletin that had the summary of the Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano. I just had to read that essay to say I understand why I'm not a Chavista, because I identify with what I'm reading and observing,” he said.

In that sense, he maintained that he understood that the perfect cannot be revolutionary, “nothing that is perfect can be revolutionized, and I understood that with Commander Hugo Chávez.”

“Capitalism teaches us to be selfish, individualistic, to buy, it teaches us machismo. If you understand it and decide to do something to transform it, that's revolutionary,” he said.

Mazo News Team

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