5.6 million women have signed up for the Venezuela Women's Grand Mission

Published at: 16/05/2024 04:17 PM

Almost seven months after its creation, the Great Venezuela Women's Mission (GMVM) has 5,600,000 registered women, national chief Dheliz Álvarez reported from Radio Miraflores.

“We are going through more than 230,000 registered committees that are the basis of a powerful movement, the Josefa Joaquina Sánchez Movement, which allows and consolidates political and democratic participation from their workplaces, from their homes, but above all in the territorialization of politics,” said the minister for Women and Gender Equality during the radio space “Somos Nevado en Radio”.

On this point, the head of the GMVM highlighted women's sense of belonging to this Great Mission, and commented on her experience in the recent deployment of the Social and Territorial Vice Presidency in the state of Mérida.

“Women have taken ownership of the Mission, there is a lot of identity. When we went to the 16th of September commune with the governor of Mérida Jehyson Guzmán, we saw their identity, and the way in which the GMVM was configured transversalizes politics and raises historical flags of struggle,” he said.

Also, according to a press release from the women's issues portfolio, she stressed that there is currently more political participation and more awareness, “that's why we value more, because we were excluded in the past and were made visible thanks to Commander Chávez. A woman never imagined being vice-president, councilwoman or mayor.”

Finally, Álvarez highlighted support for the Bolivarian Revolution “because we women know that this is where we are going to find spaces for political participation, because the revolutionary bloc nominated women and we value it very much. We know that past so that we never return to those spaces of discrimination that we were in.”

Mazo News Team