This Tuesday, a solemn session was held in the National Assembly in Caracas to commemorate the 211th anniversary of the signing of the Act of the Declaration of Independence, and the Day of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces.
In the act, the president of the parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, recalled that 211 years ago the harshest war in history was fought. “They wiped out half the population and still couldn’t dominate us, we remain sovereign and independent“, said.
“This new story that we bring to our daily lives is for the example to follow. If something allows the recovery of the word and the example, of the facts that led to freedom, it is when they are recreated through art”, instructed the head of parliament.
He assured that the heroism of those who achieved independence must be rescued, “let the world know how our independence was lived, let us take our entire history to the cinema,” Rodríguez explained.
After the reading of the Act of Independence by the deputy for the state of Falcón to the National Assembly, Genesis Garbett, the president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, stressed that 211 years ago Venezuela showed the world that it is a free people and today it is remains.
The story through the screens
For his part, the filmmaker and historian, Luis Alberto Lamata, speaker of order of the solemn session, recalled that 211 years ago an event twisted the course of three centuries full of oppression.
“Today that memory brings us together and that’s what I would like to talk about, about identity and memory that is what represents us as a Nation,” he said at the beginning of the speech.
He stressed that Venezuelan history was amputated and was not shown to the population, “we knew about cowboy stories and stories, but what about Bolívar? Simon Rodriguez? It was necessary to start honoring them,” Lamata said.
In the same way, he remembered that this, and a visit from his father to history, led him to show history through cinema.
“It was decisive to make more movies to show the history of Venezuela, and that was only possible through the Revolution,” he explained, while highlighting the creation of the Villa del Cine by initiative of President Hugo Chavez.
Lamata assured that in the face of the overwhelming era of networks and technology “it is necessary to promote the history of Venezuela through cinema.”
Earlier, the Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, was in charge of opening the Ark that contains the book of the Act of the Declaration of Independence signed 211 years ago, an act that took place in the Elliptical Hall of the Federal Legislative Palace in Caracas.
