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Donald Trump, John Bolton, the KKK extremists who govern the United States today I can say it; I don't know if this is said in the United States, but I will say it: They are Ku Klux Klan extremists. Like the KKK that attacked the homes of civil rights activists, they are trying to attack our home, Venezuela.
They prevent us from getting access to food, medicine, essential goods. We're not asking that anyone give this to us, we have the money to buy it.
It's important to know about the CLAP program. What is CLAP? It is an acronym for Local Committees for Supply and Production. I created the Local Committees for Supply and Production in 2016 for distribution of food to reach communities.
Today, we have 33,000 Local Committees for Supply and Production. Local Committees for Supply and Production. Those 33,000 reach over 6 million families.
You should know that Venezuela is a country of 30 million residents. Each family has four members. This means that the CLAPs reach nearly 80 percent of Venezuelan families, particularly the poorest families.
With the CLAPs, we created a program to, at least once a month, bring families a basket of food. Do you have this in the United States? Groceries. A box with 24 products, 24 fundamental products. Subsidized. They are delivered to the home. In some parts of the country we have managed to deliver it every 15 days, in others its every 20 days.
What's true is that Venezuelan families, who receive support through free public healthcare, free public schools, support in housing, support through a program called the homeland card that gives a direct subsidy, money.
In addition to all that support, families receive groceries. Now we have a special plan for animal protein so families can receive all their food.
That program has just been sanctioned by the Trump administration, at the request of the coup supporting Venezuelan opposition. The U.S. public should know this. The world should know this. It's something unthinkable. They are going after our food.
John Bolton, this KKK extremist, and Elliott Abrams, this KKK extremist who is known for the Iran-Contra scandal in the '80s, they say we have to leave the Venezuelan people without food. They say it openly and publicly.
They're immoral. We have to defeat them. U.S. public opinion has to rise up in solidarity with the Venezuelan people.
But I can guarantee, Max, that the CLAP program will continue. That there will be no famine in Venezuela.
As I say in Venezuela, and I don't know if this can be translated into English, whether there's rain, thunder or lightning, the CLAPs will continue and we will continue serving those 6 million households with national production and a great effort from our country.
With production and work, we will defeat the criminal plan to cause a famine in Venezuela carried out by Donald Trump, John Bolton, and the KKK that governs the White House.
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Many Americans are familiar with the events since January, when the US enacted a coup against your government, through Juan Guaidà ³. But they don't know about a lot of crises and the really grisly events that led up to it.
In 2017, the city that you see behind us, Caracas, was on fire, with the guarimbas. And many people were killed, including Chavistas like Orlando Figueroa, who was burned alive because he was black.
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