The acting president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, emphasized the importance of grassroots structures as a fundamental pillar of the governance model at the first Federal Government Council (CFG) meeting of 2026 this Wednesday. With the participation of regional and local authorities elected in 2025, the event aims to strengthen the construction of a more robust communal state.

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The meeting, held in Plaza Bicentenario, was attended by 335 mayors, 24 governors, representatives of People’s Power, community circuits, and the ministerial team. The session focused on coordinating public policies under the guidelines of the Organic Law of the Homeland Plan of the 7 Great Transformations 2025-2031. This legal framework seeks to promote new consensus with the Venezuelan people to achieve greater national unity and advance the consolidation of a powerful Venezuela.

The Community Governance Council (CFG), reconfigured in mid-2025, aims to promote decentralization processes and foster direct citizen participation through public consultations for the prioritization and implementation of community projects. In this regard, the importance of grassroots structures as a fundamental pillar of the governance model was emphasized.

Among the new members of the Council are the Executive Secretary, Leonardo Montezuma; the Sectoral Vice President for Public Works and Services, Jorge Márquez; the Sectoral Vice President for Science, Technology, Ecosocialism, and Health, Gabriela Jiménez; as well as Governors Víctor Clark, Jhoanna Carrillo, and Alberto Galíndez, and Mayors Carmen Meléndez, Gustavo Duque, and Gian Carlo.

This first meeting of the year marks the beginning of a new phase of coordination between the national, regional, and local levels, aligned with the principles of the Plan de la Patria (Homeland Plan) and the strengthening of people’s power.

Solidarity Between Sister Nations Strengthens in Difficult Times

Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, emphasized the solidarity between sister nations this Wednesday after thanking Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez for his condolences to the Venezuelan people for the heroes who died during the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2016.

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During the first Federal Government Council meeting of 2016, Rodríguez reported: “Yesterday I spoke with the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the first thing he conveyed to me was his heartfelt condolences to the Venezuelan people; to the families and friends of our heroines and heroes who died in combat.”

“I also reciprocated those condolences because 32 Cuban heroes died, but they died for Venezuela, for the concept of unity; for feeling like sons and daughters of the greater homeland,” the president stressed.

Rodríguez reaffirmed that the unity of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean is a fundamental pillar in times of adversity: “I thank you for the call, because knowing we are united in the just causes of Latin America encourages us, it strengthens our self-esteem as Venezuelans.”

She also noted that Venezuela is maintaining a dialogue process with the United States to address differences through diplomacy: “We are in a dialogue process with the United States to address differences and difficulties, both the most sensitive and the less sensitive, through diplomacy.”

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