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From the mobilization led by the communes of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza rejected the US aggression and called for unity and confidence in the Bolivarian leadership in the face of the illegal kidnapping of the presidential couple.

Thousands of people organized in Communes and Communal Circuits across Venezuela mobilized this Wednesday in Caracas to demand the release of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, who remain illegally detained in a maximum-security prison in New York, after being kidnapped during the aggression perpetrated by the United States on January 3.

During the rally, Jorge Arreaza, rector of the National University of Communes, declared that “socialism in Venezuela is the commune.” He emphasized the maxim of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, “The commune is the territory where we will build socialism. That is to say, without the commune there is no socialism.” The mobilization, Arreaza explained, sought to defend these revolutionary principles.