President Nicolás Maduro led an act of ecumenical prayer to commemorate 10 years of the physical departure of Commander Hugo Chávez, the act was attended by the first combatant and deputy to the AN, Cilia Flores, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, revolutionary parliamentarians, the Government Cabinet and leaders of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
The activity, which also included a parade, was held in the Patio de Honor of the Military University of Venezuela, in Fuerte Tiuna, Caracas, the alma mater of Commander Chávez; Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution.
After finishing the ecumenical acts that they remembered life and Commander’s Legacy Chávez, and the military parade to commemorate the physical departure of the leader, President Maduro offered a speech in which he assured that those present attended to “raise an ecumenical and interreligious prayer” for the life of Chávez, and called on the people to renew the I swear an oath to Chávez to keep the homeland free and sovereign.
The Head of State greeted the heads of all the Public Powers, who were present at the act honoring Chávez, and vowed “so that our Lord Jesus Christ intercede before God” for the protection and well-being of Venezuela.
He referred that in 10 years, from the physical departure of Commander Chávezthe bases have been laid for what is to come, and he stressed that the fundamental key to the revolutionary process in Venezuela is always to trust the people… in any circumstance”.
“And I tell you this because in all circumstances it has been a fundamental principle to invoke the people,” he assured. and that these people “have never failed that oath of ‘we will never fail you, Chávez,'” Maduro said.
The Academy where it all began
“We have come precisely today, to this courtyard of the Academies, where all the dreams of Bolivarian liberation of our people were forged… spaces that saw the virtuous generation of soldiers headed by our commander Hugo Chávez forge”, whose ideas would come to change everything , highlighted Maduro.
“Everything started here,” he pointed out and highlighted the privilege of those who knew Chávez as the soldier who spoke of the coming revolution “this patio is a witness,” he said.
He referred to the “long period of reconstruction of the Venezuelan society” that Chávez inaugurated in 1992, but which was previously gestating in the Military Academy. He thanked Commander Chávez for being at the head of the State “to free consciences” and start the revolution that continues in the current Government.
The march that accompanied the Commander
Maduro also recalled that this Monday 10 years of the march “of thousands that became millions… raising prayers as the body of our Commander Chávez passed by”, when the procession that carried the mortal remains of the Leader took place, from the Military Hospital
“One of the most moving events in which I have participated in my entire life… the mobilization of the people in the streets to bid farewell to their beloved Commander, Hugo Chávez,” he said.
He stressed that around two million 500 thousand people paraded through the funeral chapel of the wake. “He never saw Venezuela, in the 500 years of existence of this territory,” he said of the crowd that attended the funeral parlor.
Renew the oath to Chávez
He pointed out that during the days after the death of Chávez, the leaders of the Bolivarian Government were torn between deep pain and the oath they swore to Chávez to continue his revolutionary struggle from the Bolivarian Government.
“The sacred oath was stronger, here we are standing, victorious, advancing towards the new scenarios, we have come to ratify that oath from the heart,” said the head of state.
He called on all the people to renew in Chávez the fight for freedom and for a socialist and just homeland, to “plant ourselves with the faith of the warrior who knows that it is possible and has verified that we are made of the steel that Chávez forged before and after his physical departure.
“We are not going to faint… whatever the cost and we are going to achieve that homeland that you dreamed of,” Maduro said and assured that it will be done in “perfect Military Civic Union.”
The challenges facing Venezuela
The president recalled the challenges that the Venezuelan people have faced during the years of sabotage, guarimba and blockade from the US, and said that the statement by former US President BaracK Obama, pointing out Venezuela as a threat was “one of the most embarrassing acts of imperialism ”.
He also recalled the scenario of the guarimbas “to lead us to a civil war” and how that claim was subdued through the Constituent Assembly that managed to “defeat the coup leaders, the diluting forcesto the traitors that there have always been” and progress was made without reaching the alleged civil war.
