The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, presented a progress report on the Great Mission Venezuela Mujer and the Great Movement of Movements Josefa Joaquina Sánchez. He highlighted that 2,800,000 women are now active members of their organizational structures. The announcement was made during the inauguration of the Nora Castañeda International School of Women’s Leadership, located in Aragua State.
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The President described the event as a “good omen” for the country’s social development in 2026 and announced a goal that, by the end of that year, all 49,000 community councils in the country will have a legally constituted women’s grassroots committee, which would allow a total of 5 million women to exercise direct leadership in their communities. Currently, 17,000 of these councils already have such committees.
The event featured the participation of National Assembly Deputy María León, who linked the fight for gender equality to the roots of Christianity and social justice. “This struggle began with Jesus of Nazareth; he was the one who spoke of justice and brought women into the fold,” León stated, symbolically proposing the inclusion of Jesus of Nazareth as a pivotal figure in the historical narrative of the Bolivarian Revolution, alongside Simón Bolívar, Hugo Chávez, and Nicolás Maduro.
For her part, the Minister of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality, Yelitza Santaella, expressed her gratitude for the National Executive’s confidence in her to lead the new International Leadership School, and emphasized that its operation is based on the territorial organization of women through Women’s Committees and Communal Councils.
“Venezuelan women have demonstrated unwavering resilience in times of difficulty, assuming the leading role that history has bestowed upon them in the revolutionary process,” she noted.
The School, which will be headed by Santaella, has the mission of professionalizing and empowering women’s leadership through three training pillars defined by President Maduro: training for Social Transformation, for National Security and Defense, and for the Productive Economy.
The first pillar aims to equip women with the tools to make a positive impact within their families and communities. “Educating to transform society starting with the family, building humane and educated families based on values, families that know how to build a new society,” Maduro emphasized.
The second pillar will include a mandatory module inspired by the heroines Josefa Joaquina Sánchez and Ana María Campos, to strengthen the defense of national sovereignty through a popular-military-police alliance.
The third pillar focuses on women’s economic empowerment, with the goal of training “millions of entrepreneurial women who have their own successful productive and economic projects.”
Minister Santaella concluded her speech by stating that the new training center represents a milestone that transcends borders, because “the light of knowledge that is lit in Aragua will serve as a guide not only for Venezuelan women, but for all those women of the world who seek to walk the path of liberation and social justice.”
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