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The revolutionary offensive continues with growing fervor. In San Cristobal andValencia, we could see it on January 27 in two events with the participation ofcampaign regional command units, electoral center command units, leaders ofpatrols, and spokespeople of the Committees for the Yes vote, comprised by membersof the socialist missions as well as social fronts and movements.These meetings have been really exciting and they have had a great pedagogicalcontent. They were also useful for me to confirm the progress we have achieved inthe first days of this 4th Phase our campaign has entered, with multiple divergentmaneuvers directed towards the different tactical and strategic objectives.In today’s lines, short before leaving to Belem do Pará, in northern Brazil, wherewe have been invited by comrade President Lula da Silva and other leaders of thecontinent’s most diverse social movements participating in the 2009 World SocialForum, I want to pass on to you some material to contribute to achieving themaximum efficiency in this offensive operation, which continues evolving towardsthe great battle for the Yes vote in the next February 15 referendum, where wehave been called to achieve a memorable victory.First, it is crystal-clear that in order to achieve the strategic goal, that is tosay, the victory of the Yes vote, we need to materialize the people’s vote,mobilize the people’s mass to the polling centers on February 15, seeking toachieve our greatest victory.Now, how do we achieve it? We have to specify the details of the tacticaloperations, being a correct organization for the battle a fundamental point.And here I want us to be meticulous. Therefore, I give you the following operatinginstructions:1. Fellow countrymen and women, a command unit must work in each electoral centerwith their respective leader and a minimum command unit structure, communicationsand control. And all operating units in the sector must join this electoral centercommand unit.2. That is to say, a logistic patrol, and as many operating patrols as there arepolling stations in the respective electoral center must work under the [electoralcenter command] unit’s command. Each patrol must have a leader; that is to say, aleader whose main task is to organize, train, combine, encourage and guide her/hisunit to accomplish the mission.3. But now I have to remind you the following: our experience has proven thatpatrols are not enough to undertake the colossal task of promoting the people’smassive voting: million and million workers, fishermen, soldiers, indigenouspeople, men and women!4. Something really transcendental has happened in this campaign from that pointof view: the Missions and Social Movements have broken the limits of their innersocial dynamic to now hold their battle positions in the political map. Over100,000 Committees for the Yes vote have arisen from everywhere with the force ofa hurricane!And their happy, lively, and overpowering irruption resembles those memorablepatriotic cavalry charges against the enemy flanks which broke the lines ofresistance, and caused the royalist decline and defeat in the battle field, or thecharges of Maisanta1, the last man on horseback whose legend inspired Andrés EloyBlanco to write poems like the gallop of centaurs:
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