Américo Fernández was 33 years old as a chronicler of Ciudad Bolívar. In 2020 he expressed his disagreement with the ruling party’s decision to change the name of the Heres municipality to rename it Angostura del Orinoco. The teachers’ union made an act of reparation and declared Américo Fernández “patrimony of the Guayanese and Venezuelans, living patrimony of Ciudad Bolívar.” Former legislators denounce that the Organic Law of Municipal Power was violated with this dismissal
Criticism and rejection was generated by the recent dismissal of the historian and journalist Américo Fernández as chronicler of Ciudad Bolívar, after an agreement that was approved on Friday, May 5, by the majority of the PSUV in the Municipal Chamber of Angostura del Orinoco, formerly the Heres municipality.
The pro-government faction declared the “absolute absence” of Fernández despite the fact that the requirements stipulated by law to establish his absolute absence were not met.
The version of the camera is that, for a long time there has been no publication of Américo Fernández in any medium, in which his work as a chronicler is evidenced.
Américo Fernández remains active in social networks and from there he spreads the notes that feed his blog Angosturean Chronicles.
In 2020, Fernández expressed his disagreement with the PSUV’s decision to approve the change of name of the Heres municipality in the regional Legislature, a decision that had the full support of the party’s first vice president, Diosdado Cabello.
«Here’s nothing to do with Angostura. The councilors do not know how to distinguish the place name, proper name of the place, from the political». Fernandez then said, when explaining that Angostura del Orinoco is what is known as Ciudad Bolívar and Heres is the name that was decided to give to one of the political-territorial divisions of the state». «It is a mania of wanting to change history for a new one. They do not respect customs, legacies, they are not claiming anything. In any case, if they wanted to claim something, it would be to change the name of Bolívar to Angostura, ”Fernández settled in 2020.
For the writer, poet and cultural promoter Francisco Arévalo, those who approved the dismissal motion do not know what the chronicler of a city means, due to its elements of memory.
«There are three important positions: the mayor, the president of the Municipal Chamber and the chronicler. The first two are appointed by vote and have a management period, but the chronicler takes the historical elements of the city (…) unless he declares himself incompetent to continue in office, he becomes an emeritus chronicler, but you cannot take him away the charge,” he said.
Américo Fernández also highlights his extensive career as a historian, part of it reflected in his publications in Angosturean Chronicles.
«I make it difficult for Venezuela to have a chronicler of the trajectory of Américo Fernández. He is a long-lived man who has seen the dictatorship, the rebirth of democracy, modern Venezuela and the destruction that the country is experiencing today.” highlighted Arévalo to the Correo del Caroní. He reiterated that it is a disrespectful measure and that, in addition, Fernández did not receive payment of fees.
The lawyer and former deputy of the National Congress, Luis Beltrán Franco, stressed that such dismissal violates the Organic Law of Municipal Public Power, and that an ordinance cannot be above an organic law.
“It is an abusive decision. It is an abuse of power but also of ignorance, for whom he was also president of the Legislative Council of Bolívar state. His crime is his honesty, because in more than 20 years as a chronicler he has never received a bolivar, “said Beltrán Franco.
Américo Fernández was 33 years old as a chronicler of Ciudad Bolívar. Although he was a native of Nueva Esparta, he was adopted by Bolivarian lands.
About seven or eight years ago, the Municipal Chamber chaired at the time by Ronald Bastardo also raised the dismissal of Fernández, although this did not prosper. The idea was to replace him with the now deceased Tomás Antonio Chinese Leon, who did not accept.
In addition to being a social communicator, Fernández is a corresponding member of the National Academy of History, vice president of the National Association of Official Chroniclers of Venezuela, he was general secretary of the National Association of Journalists 2010-2012, Bolívar branch, and author of 20 history books. of the Bolivar state.
magisterial relief
The Bolívar state teachers’ union held an act of reparation to Américo Fernández this Thursday, the 11th, and there they described as “capricious, vague and petty” arguments those used by the mayors of the Angostura del Orinoco municipality (formerly Heres) to dismiss the chronicler.
The teachers, in unison, not only rejected the political decision but also drew up a manifesto to express their solidarity and appreciation for the academic, historian, journalist and writer Américo Fernández, a press release stated.
Aixa Viera, president of Sutradocencia, read the reparation text, backed by the Inter-union Command for Teachers, and recalled the legacy of this academic, whose work transcends time through his more than 20 published history texts and chronicles by the social networks.
The president of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers of the Bolívar state, Lina Maradei de Beltrán, regretted the decision of the Municipal Chamber, which can only be considered “clumsy ignominy” towards a man with the academic and intellectual capacity of Fernández.
They urged the mayor of Angostura del Orinoco to refrain from endorsing the dismissal of the Chronicler of Ciudad Bolívar.
“From the Federation of Teachers we support Américo Fernández, patrimony of the Guayanese and Venezuelans, living patrimony of Ciudad Bolívar, and we reject this disrespect,” he stressed.
A commission went to the historian’s residence to grant him recognition from the “Living Academy of Teaching” for his 33-year work serving the history and name of Ciudad Bolívar. Teachers Lina Maradei and Aiza Viera presented the medal of merit and the manifesto of support to Américo Fernández.
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