The people of Miranda mobilized this Saturday to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the departure of Commander Hugo Chávez from the Yare Prison, located in the Simón Bolívar municipality, to “mark the political history of humanity.”
In this sense, the governor of Miranda state, Héctor Rodríguez, recalled that it was in the Yare prison where Commander Chávez created the necessary tools for the political transformation of the country and the entire continent.
«The Yare prison was a great school for the future, for politics, for the leader who left here on March 26 (…) He went to walk every street, every community, every path, to feel the suffering and the hopes of our people, to organize that hope, and to conquer political power for the people of Venezuela and then began to lead the transformation that we have experienced in recent years not only in Venezuela but in Latin America”, stressed the socialist leader.
«Today the world is what it is because on March 26 Hugo Chávez left. Chávez marked in two times the political history of humanity », he added.
In this regard, Rodríguez stated that Chávez was transferred to the Yare prison, which was at that time a common prison, because the representatives of the Fourth Republic wanted to isolate him.
«They wanted to isolate Chávez. Venezuelans were going to take care of that man who broke history like lightning, who came to give him a popular character. The Government (right) believed that by putting him in a common jail, in the marital dating cell, they were going to isolate him, break him. What they did was bring it to the heart of the Chavista people », he pointed out.
For this reason, Miranda’s highest authority pointed out that, thanks to the strength of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, the anti-imperialist battles of recent years have been waged.
“We have had several battles. We look back, we see the storm pass, and we see ourselves standing up, united, organized, ready more than ever to fight. We thank you, Chávez, wherever you are, because this organization, which has allowed us to weather so many storms, was thanks to you”, he stated.
Yare prison in a university
During the demonstration, the governor of Miranda reiterated his commitment to convert the Yare I prison into a university campus, where the new leaders of the country are trained.
“We want that prison to be for what it was for Chávez. The school to govern the country. Today from here, I want us to thank President Nicolás Maduro for supporting us and vacating Yare I and we have an immense job to convert into light cells », he pointed out.
Rodríguez proposed that the activities last for two and a half years, which was the time the commander was imprisoned, and that each promotion take place on March 26.
«The new era for Venezuela»
The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, commemorated the 28th anniversary of the departure of Commander Chávez and stressed that, with his departure from Yare, “the new era for Venezuela” was marked.
«Chavez left Yare! And with it, the Bolivarian and revolutionary hurricane that marked the passage of the new era for Venezuela. Let’s go to the catacombs as the Commander taught us, and let’s make the true Revolution, always together with the People », the Venezuelan head of state wrote on his account on the social network Twitter, accompanied by audiovisual material.
Chávez was imprisoned for two years for leading the civic-military rebellion of February 4, 1992, together with a group of patriotic officers.
At the time, together with the soldiers of the Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement MBR-200, he rebelled against the neoliberal government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, who under orders from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) implemented measures that caused political, economic and social instability, which had its greatest impact with the repression of the popular rebellion of February 27, 1989.
That afternoon of March 26, 1994, Hugo Chávez was released with the conviction of delving into the bowels of the Venezuelan people, who received him with love to jointly build a political model of social demands.
