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Maite Mola: "Hugo Chávez is a worldwide reference for the alternatives to the capitalist and patriarchal regime"

The third Venezuelan Congress of the Women took place in Caracas, on 6, 7 and 8 March 2015. Maite Mola, Vice-president of the Party of the European Left (EL), represented there 33 European...

The third Venezuelan Congress of the Women took place in Caracas, on 6, 7 and 8 March 2015. Maite Mola, Vice-president of the Party of the European Left (EL), represented there 33 European parties. Invited by the Ministry of the Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality, she participated in the discussions and intervened in the tribune "Women of the world in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution" and in the international seminar of the Comandante Hugo Chavez’s feminist thought.

 

Maite Mola evoked the work put forward by Chavez for the Venezuelan women, quoting Maria Leon (ex-minister of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality): "The Venezuelan women during the fourth Republic were discriminated, deprived of studies and jobs and sentenced to develop housework as unique function within the society. They were locked up in their homes and condemned to washing, cooking, ironing and childcare as well. They were not allowed to read or write. Hugo Chávez advocated these women and said that their work - the work of a woman dedicated to the housework and the family - produces wealth, an added value.”

 

The vice-president of the EL bolsters and defends the Bolivarian Revolution and supports the President Maduro in continuing the work of the Comandante Chávez. This was formalized especially with Andreina Tarazon, Venezuelan minister of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality, who is working for women to guarantee their political participation, protagonist and equal in all areas of public life and in the decision-making, as well as to safeguard the inclusion of all women of the national territory and introduce a gender perspective in social programs, health, housing and habitat, education, food, sport, social security...

 

Maite Mola said that Hugo Chávez is a worldwide reference for the alternatives to the capitalist and patriarchal regime with its alternative project "Socialist and feminist", as he defined it.

 

In addition, Maite Mola explained the situation in Europe, and more specifically in Spain where 13 million people live below the poverty line, and where the elderly suicide rate has increased having they decided to leave their food to the grandchildren. Besides in Europe, because of the economic crisis, the women issue tends to be avoided.

 

Other people who are fighting for the women rights have spoken during the Congress. Among them, Piedad Córdoba (Colombia) who proposed to set up an international front for women rights, and Xiomara Castro Zelaya (Honduras) who explained that today Honduras is like a laboratory of privatizations, with entrepreneurs who are buying ports and having their own private police.

 

Hugo Chávez was quoted in several interventions to strengthen his idea that no revolutionary process or change can be achieved without women and feminism.

 

The entire delegation of international women who participated in the Congress has signed a declaration supporting the democratically elected Government of Nicolas Maduro. It has been a blame as well, to the means of communication and their delivered misinformation or inaccurate data on Venezuela, with which they place themselves against the attempts at interference by the imperialist forces.

 

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