Defense Minister G/J Vladimir Padrino López said that the deed of April 19, 1810 aroused the national identity and became the germ of the First Republic. This was said during the message sent to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, about the 215 years of the proclamation of independence.
In the message posted in the portal of the Ministry of Defense, he stressed that it was the first step to specify the independence of the nation.
Padrino López pointed out that it was “a collective act of insurrection against the colonial yoke, in the Caracas, heterogeneous population in roots but united in purpose, the ignorance to the authority of Captain General Vicente Emparan, on April 19, 1810. That gesture was not only the rejection of a ruler imposed by the Spanish crown, but also a statement of political capacity was expressed. The Plaza Mayor became the scene of a rebel dialogue in which slaves, indigenous, Creoles and mestizos, expressed themselves in the name of emancipation ».
The senior officer affirmed that “this historic event was constituted in the germ of the First Republic, symbolized the awakening of a national identity and was the exordium that served as an anchor to the first ideas of self -determination; With which decades later, having traveled a bloody but heroic revolutionary deed, the independence of the nation would be given way »
He added Godfather, he said that “currently this legacy is faced the threats of a hybrid and multiform war, vestiges of recycled imperialism that replicates the predatory logic of anachronistic hegemonies and intends to fracture our unity, dignity and will of struggle. They have not succeeded, they will ever achieve it! «
He indicated that »215 years after that cry that still survives in the nationalist spirit of the Venezuelan people, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces reiterates its unavoidable commitment to the principles of freedom, sovereignty, territorial integrity and anti -imperialism, which in perfect police fusion, extends as a sacred fire in the hearts of the present and future generations of our beloved homeland».
Finally he fired his message with: Long live the revolutionary April! ; Chávez lives! … The homeland continues! ; Independence and socialist homeland!… We will live and overcome! ; The Sun of Venezuela was born in the Esequibo! ; Independence or nothing!
