The president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, said on the 48th anniversary of the murder of his father, the revolutionary leader Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, who despite his physical disappearance, they could not kill his ideas.
These statements were made after paying tribute to the founder of the Socialist League at the General Cemetery of the South, where his remains rest.
“A young man was savagely tortured for 72 hours,” Rodríguez described, “and his physical body was killed. This murder marked the persecution and massacre of an entire generation. Thousands of young people were thrown from helicopters, disappeared, killed, tortured and thrown into the sea in chains, like in the case of Alberto Lovera, the case of Fabricio Ojeda, the case of Víctor Soto Rojas. Young people who were killed but their ideas could not be killed,” he stressed.
Sinister plan
Rodríguez explained that the systematic murders carried out by the security forces were part of a sinister plan. “It did not only happen in Venezuela. It also happened in Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, designed by the School of the Americas to torture, murder, and disappear young leaders of the continental left. A plan that sought nothing other than to impose hatred, to impose fascism, to impose murder for reasons strictly related to ideas,” he pointed out.
In this regard, Rodriguez said that this plan was stopped precisely in Venezuela by the Bolivarian revolution. “That is the struggle we have today, the struggle of Jorge Rodriguez, of Victor Soto Rojas, of Eliecer Otaiza, it is a struggle to defend life, to defend tenderness, to defend ideas. Fascism is always violence and no matter how much they try to disguise it, the plans that fascism has for Venezuela are once again destruction, death and the delivery of our resources to their masters in the north.”
For this reason, he added that the example of all the revolutionary martyrs is the one they carry in their hearts today. “It is the immortal example of Hugo Chávez that moves Nicolás Maduro in a campaign that has been nothing other than the defense of life, the defense of our territory, our sky, of the highest ideas of humanity. The others’ campaign is darkness and death and they will not pass,” he said.
Delcy Rodríguez: It’s the same battle
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, visibly moved, said that half a century ago, when her father was tortured and murdered, there was also a fight for a different Venezuela.
“That is the Venezuela of today, that of justice, of social equity, of social equality. But the same threats of two centuries ago, of half a century ago, are present today against Venezuela, by those who want to strip our country of its wealth and hand it over to Washington and its satellite governments. It is the same battle and that is why it is a brave battle alongside the Venezuelan people for peace, for the tranquility of our country, for the defense of our sovereignty, so that no one comes to govern us, but rather the Venezuelan people govern.”
The ceremony, held at the General Cemetery of the South, began with the playing of the National Anthem and that of the Socialist International.
Flowers were later placed at the tombs of the martyrs in the cemetery.
