On Thursday, March 7, the U.S. attacked the system that guarantees electric service throughout Venezuela, with the intention of unleashing chaos in the country, leaving several vital areas without electricity. Healthcare was one of the main targets of the attack.
While in the country authorities and workers of the National Electric System were striving to re-establish electric service, inside neighborhoods, communes and community members were also doing their job.
Immediately after the power outages, members of the Health Committee of the Socialist Commune Altos de Lídice were going through the neighborhoods and alleys of the commune to bring medical assistance: they held a comprehensive Medical Assistance Day aimed at children from birth to 12 years of age in the community of El Bosque de Altos de Lídice. The day, organized by the Health Committee of the commune and executed by the community doctor Dulfa Perozo, coordinator of the ASIC “Carlos J. Bello”, brought primary health care to fifty children of the sector, who received medicines free of charge through SaludYA- 0-800 program.
During the house-to-house tour, the children of the community were treated just as in a routine consultation: checking the tonsils, pulse, weight, height and, those who needed it, received appropriate treatment: paediatric medicines, serums, acetaminophen, antibiotics and anti-allergy medication were delivered in a timely manner. Here is a concrete example of communal action against imperial aggression.
This is one of the many ways in which the power of organized people is manifested to keep up with the attacks of the stateless right and the genocidal empire. The Health Committee of the Socialist Commune Altos de Lídice in La Pastora works directly in the territory, and it is part of its daily routine to carry out this type of work, but in moments of crisis such as those experienced by the country, the past days take on great relevance and demonstrate the vital importance they have in defense of sovereignty and peace.
One of Venezuela’s strengths that has impeded the success of U.S. plans is precisely #The People’s Power. One axis of aggression is to provoke a social rupture, a breakdown that would cause violence and chaos to bring about the fall of government. That is far from happening, largely because of the depth of Chávez’s legacy of building revolutionary democracy and popular power.
Therefore, in order to guarantee the final victory and that those U.S. plans do not succeed, it is fundamental that the national government deepens the transfer of power and resources to organised popular power. It is necessary to strengthen production together with the peasant councils, the communes, community owned enterprises in times of aggression where, in addition, it is essential that all the people be involved in the tasks of security, defence and territorial sovereignty of the country.
Coordinación Nacional Corriente Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora
Translation by Internationalist 360°
