Jorge Arreaza: A Revolution is not possible without winning the cultural battle

Published at: 11/01/2025 03:49 PM

The Secretary General of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA - TCP), Jorge Arreaz a, stressed that a Revolution is not possible without winning the cultural battle.

He made the statement during the ALBA-TCP Meeting of Cultivators and Cultivators that takes place at the La Carlota Convention Center, where he said that 20 years ago “there was talk of South-South cooperation, now, it is a Su r, which is present and which requires us to understand this changing, multipolar world, which emerges with many contradictions, convulsions, and on that path, ALBA-TCP is a living precedent, of that multipolar world. Much of what the BRICS are proposing has already been done by the Alliance.”

He assured that in the cultural sphere, it is the great battle, “there is no possible revolution, all the revolutionary leaders have said: there is no possible revolution if it is not a cultural revolution”.

In addition, he indicated that “empires usually carry out transculturization. America is the consequence of a process of transculturization, but it is also the result of the resistance of native cultures. Added to this were those who came from Africa.”

For his part, the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, said that the current communication elements have a tremendous effect on all spheres, today we live in an immediate environment, which makes it obsolete, what was viral half an hour ago, “What is the cultural imprint that will leave for the next generations?” , he asked.

He said that if we face the cultural battle from a young age, we have the chances to lose, but “if we recognize ourselves as part of something bigger, we have what it takes to win”.

In this regard, Villegas warned that “Today corporations sit at government meetings to discuss cultural issues. Today, corporations define the agenda. Governments have their hands tied. That is why they put in order the experience of the Great Mission Viva Venezuela My Beloved Homeland”.

The president of the House of the Americas, Abel Prieto, pointed out that the networks are full of banalities in the face of important issues affecting the world “what is relevant is constantly mixed with the irrelevant, the superfluous, the infantilization of audiences.”