After entering the remains of the teacher and politician, Luis Beltran Prieto Figueroaat the National Pantheon this Thursday, the President of the Republic assured that he was the first “leader of an honest and nationalist left who invented the concept of the cowardly left and functional to the Puntofijista system”, in the 70s and 80s.
“He spoke the language of the humble, without intellectualist poses or pretensions,” like Alí (Primera), like Hugo Chávez.
He related that teacher Prieto Figueroa was a man of great charisma, “that everyone wanted a hug from him” because of the concept of the “unified school and why young people should defend the right to free, quality public education.” ”.
The great electoral fraud
The national leader recalled, “and I believe that is still in the CNE, in a historic room; Maybe younger people don’t remember, but before you put in a card from the party you were voting for and you took the bunch of cards with you, because public employees had to take that bunch to show that they had voted for the party in power, of Puntofijismo, but the other day you already know what was happening,” he said.
Maduro specified that the electoral system was such that public employees were coerced with some type of “food, a tin roof, a scholarship, they would hold out until the day after the elections to bring the bunch of cards, it was the cleaner and more transparent system to which some want to return,” he expressed with frank irony.
The head of state assured that the elections were stolen from him “and in history it remained, presidents of history institutes, in 1968, as the story of the great fraud that was committed against teacher Prieto Figueroa. “If his victory had been recognized, and he had been president of Venezuela, another rooster would crow, another story would have been written and we would have had another world,” the president said.
He stressed that, although it is a controversial idea, “but it is the truth,” however, after that he “remained persevering,” he expressed.
