Minister Prado: Simón Bolívar Committees will work from Community Circuits in defense of migrants

Published at: 10/07/2025 11:02 PM

This Thursday, a workshop on territorialization was held to discuss the role of Popular Power in foreign policy, organized by the Foreign Ministry of the Republic and the Ministry of People's Power for the Communes, to promote the Simon Bolivar Committees in the country's 5,338 Community Councils, based on the defense of migrants abroad and the care of their families in Venezuela.

Through this activity, the Simon Bolivar Committees, carried out at the Venezuelan School of Planning, in Caracas, highlighted the importance of the specific tasks of these committees, in promoting the territorialization policy of the Seventh Transformation, Geopolitics of Peace and Integration, of the Homeland Plan 2025-2031 (7T).

During the day, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the Minister of Popular Power for the Communes, Ángel Prado, explained that one of the ideas is that migrants can assume the voice from abroad, with instances that his office is proposing to create, to comply with the instructions of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, to promote work within the country, but also outside the country, abroad where the compatriots who left for the media campaign.

He stressed that it seeks to help with the mood, health and mental state of the migrant, to promote their return through the Plan Back to the Fatherland.

“So that we can take care of the relative of the migrant who traveled, but we can also attend to our migrant who will be waiting for a message, a few words, a hug, will be waiting for a message from their families, but will also be waiting for the solidarity of the Venezuelan people,” he explained.

For her part, the president of the Simon Bolivar Institute, deputy Blanca Eekhout, specified that the goal is for the 5,338 Community Councils, throughout Venezuela, to have Simón Bolívar Committees constituted, which will contribute to the export of the Bolivarian political model, as well as to its development.

“Migrants and migrants have rights and from every Simon Bolivar Committee of our communal council, of our communes, we will be fighting for their dignity, for care for the families that remained in the country and who are organizing to fight for the rights of migrants, and also to receive them to those who return to their homeland,” he said.

In his speech, the Deputy Minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, present at the workshop, considered that this effort to raise awareness of what is happening with migrants in the national territory and in the world, “is an obligatory policy for everyone, for each of us, who have particular responsibilities, within this virtuous formula, called the Bolivarian Revolution or Bolivarian Project”.

Mazo News Team