Arce, Ortega and Raúl Castro are in Caracas
MADRID, 5 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Several leaders of the Latin American left have remembered this Sunday Hugo Chávez, who was president of Venezuela, while in the country itself tributes are being paid for the “sowing” of the president.
The first to exalt the memory of Chávez has been his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who has stressed that his legacy is still valid in the social struggles of the country and also of the Latin American and Caribbean region.
“To say Chávez, is to say love, loyalty and victory! 10 years after its planting, the People transformed pain into strength, to continue mobilizing in the streets, fighting daily for the defense of the Homeland and to consolidate the Bolivarian project that he dreamed,” Maduro posted on Twitter.
Diosdado Cabello, vice president of the party that Chávez founded, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), has highlighted “his spirituality, his humanity and his love.” “This is how we should always remember in life and if we want to remember Chávez even more let’s be like Chávez”, he has summoned him. The PSUV itself has published a communiqué in which it stresses that the “miracle” initiated by Chávez in 1999 “continues to materialize” with “a president made people.”
The anniversary is celebrated in Caracas with the confluence of various marches towards the Cuartel de la Montaña, a symbol of Chavismo for being the scene of Chávez’s first attempt to come to power with the 1992 coup. the place fireworks and cannon salutes.
There the family of Hugo Chávez has remembered the leader with the Venezuelan ambassador in Cuba and brother of the ex-president, Adán Chávez, at the head. The children, parents and other relatives of Hugo Chávez have also been present. Adán Chávez pointed out at the ceremony that the best way to commemorate the legacy of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution is “building unity, unity, unity and we will be invincible.”
“We are here commemorating life, because Chávez is always with us (…). He is and will always be with us (…). Long live Chávez, long live the homeland… we will live and win,” he snapped.
In these acts Venezuela has the presence of the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raúl Castro; the presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; from Honduras, Xiomara Castro, and from Bolivia, Luis Arce.
Upon his arrival in Caracas, Arce expressed his satisfaction at being “in this friendly land that has always shown solidarity with the peoples.” Hugo Chávez “has opened our eyes that building a new society is possible, that revolutionaries and socialists are not an invention but a reality.”
There are “so many things that the Bank of the South has raised at the time, precisely the issue of ALBA and, finally, so many things that we Latin Americans have to thank for the initiative of Hugo Chávez,” he pointed out.
For Ortega, “now, in the present, it is up to Nicolás Maduro to raise the sword of Bolívar, which Chávez handed over to him and which is in the hands of the Bolivarian people, of the Venezuelan people who travel throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.”
“Today more than ever we have to unite our forces, our fighting action, to continue waging the battle for the freedom and unity of our people,” he pointed out.
From Havana, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has sent a hug to the country on the occasion of the “painful absence” of Chávez. “Our America lost Bolívar and Fidel (Castro) for the second time, and Cuba lost its best friend. A decade has passed and it hurts the same,” Díaz-Canel lamented on Twitter.
Coinciding with the anniversary, a meeting of social movements from Latin America and the Caribbean has been convened in which President Nicolás Maduro participates under the title Validity of the Bolivarian Thought of Commander Chávez in the 21st century.
“From the heights of the Humboldt Hotel, we prepare for a meeting with the delegates of the Movements of the Peoples of Our America,” Maduro advanced.
