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Suarez presented on the proposed constitutional reforms proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
On Oct. 2, she addressed a San Francisco ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) activists’ meeting. The room was crowded with people as Suarez pointed out the general goals of the progressive reforms. Three days later she spoke to dozens of ANSWER members and friends in Los Angeles.
The proposals Suarez discussed at both meetings include: developing and organizing communes, organizing the cities, creating a fund that would ensure all workers have necessary benefits, getting rid of monopolies, banning an autonomous central bank, increasing presidential term to seven years without term limits, instating a six-hour work day, and reorganizing the armed forces.
According to Suarez, the three main goals of the proposed reforms are to empower the people, strengthen democracy, and to create a new model that would deepen the revolutionary process in Venezuela.
Suarez emphasized that “without socialism there could be no true democracy.” She also brought to everyone’s
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Suarez became a revolutionary during the people’s rebellion against the 2002 anti-Chávez coup. During the question and answer session at both meetings she recounted her own personal experiences during that time. In April 2002, Suarez was a journalist working for a private news company. She witnessed first-hand, the collaboration of the media with the coup plotters.
The people of Venezuela currently are debating and discussing the proposed constitutional reforms that Suarez discussed. Suarez’s presentations informed pro-Venezuelan activists and organizers about these reforms and what they mean for the Bolivarian revolution.
Muna Coobtee also contributed to this report.
