83 years after the birth of the revolutionary leader Jorge Rodríguez Padre, President Nicolás Maduro recalled in his account of his Telegram channel, described as “iconic symbol” to it, highlighting his courage and threw in favor of the leftist movement.
“Rindo tribute to the memory of a leader who became one of the most outstanding youth of the 70s, Jorge Rodríguez Padre, a revolutionary with a charism and a unique energy,” he said.
The Head of State said his generation “grew with the iconic symbol of his courage, intelligence and courage. He managed to articulate the most powerful movement of the radical left to build a student leadership of unity with the people. ”
83 years after his birth, we remember his legacy, his vision, and we carry his strength as a flag, he finished.
A 34 -year -old martyr
The first national president posted a video in which Rodríguez (father) can be observed in different facets of his revolutionary struggle.
In the same, Maduro points out that “Recoding Jorge Rodríguez, is to remember the brutal method of government, bourgeoisie and oligarchy, but also remember that 34 -year -old, is also to remember the gentleman, courage and depth of The dreams that faced death and came out victorious, who faced their torturers and defeated in morals, in courage, in dignity. ”
He said that “it was not our generation that took arms, it touched our generation collecting and turning pain into the creative force, of hope, of joy, revolution and leaving its example, its face his gaze of testimony of inspiration. He has not had to face the toughest paths in the revolutionary struggle (…) What life the eternal memory of Jorge Rodríguez, who lives the example of the martyrs of the Bolivarian Revolution, ”said the president.
A current legacy
Jorge Rodríguez, Father was born on February 16, 1942, highlighting at an early age as leftist student leader
Rodríguez was kidnapped by DISIP officials on July 25, 1976, dying in prison.
The official version was that he gave him a heart attack. However, his body presented numerous signs of having been tortured.
The vice president of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez has pointed out in various interviews that during their father’s prison stay, their children as their wife had to face abuses by the officials, who even locked them in a room where tear bombs threw them .
For his part, the president of the National Assembly Jorge Rodríguez has indicated that his father, delegate of the University Council of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in the 60s and 70s, led the family to live in different areas of Caracas, Due to the contributing threats they faced, so their childhood passed it in moving contributors.
Also in an president’s podcast would report “My dad was wildly tortured twice in 72, Rafael Caldera’s government was also captured by what at that time was called the Sifa, the intelligence service of the Armed Forces, José Vicente Rangel saves his life, because At the moment that the search entered my house for some reason the agents of the Sifa leave for a few minutes. My mom, Delcy and I look for a public telephone and my mother calls José Vicente Rangel and he gets to the search, had him kidnapped and torture him wildly. ”
Both Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez have pointed out that his father’s legacy has been an example for the current revolutionary process.
