President Nicolás Maduro through his Telegram channel, sent his condolences for the death of the union and revolutionary leader, Jacobo Torres.
“I met my friend Jacobo Torres when he was 15 years old, since the beginning of our struggles for the working class we were together, in the first line of battle, in the constituent front of the 1999 workers, as we founded the Bolivarian Force of the Workers and the Trade Union Central, ”said the first national president.
“You have left Eternity Chancellor of the working class, and from here we will remain firm with your legacy for the union causes and for the people,” he said.
Cilia and I joined the family, friends and colleagues at this time, our fraternal hug to you, he added ending with a “until victory always!”
Reflections of Jacobo Torres
It should be remembered that journalist Geraldina Colotti de Latin American summaryHe conducted an interview with the labor leader in 2020.
On that occasion Torres affirmed the need to build a “strong revolutionary pole of workers in the electricity sector, one of the most sensitive and strategic of our economy and our day to day. After the terrible electrical sabotage suffered in March 2019, surpassed thanks to the efforts of the workers, we are building a solid movement from the Productive Council of Workers ”.
He also referred to the effect of unilateral coercive measures, “the set of attacks we suffer, do not only affect the Chavista leadership, but the entire people, regardless of political color. They have not stolen the Citgo refinery, which has its headquarters in the United States, the monomer company in Colombia, our external assets were stolen, frozen our accounts in European banks, stole the money destined for medical treatment for sick children of bone marrow, already decided and paid through Citgo, in Italy. They have prevented us from buying food and medicines abroad, try to block us everywhere, ”he warned.
A revolutionary life
In the interview granted to the journalist Colotti, he would report part of his revolutionary career.
At age 12 he was in the Venezuelan revolution party, the PRV. At 16, he accompanied “in the construction of the revolutionary trend to Commander Fausto, the name in the guerrillas of our partner Ali Rodríguez Araque.”
Subsequently, he was “Internationalist militant of the People’s Revolutionary Army, on the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), during the years of war in Salvador.”
He was a member of the FMLN Political-Diplomatic Commission for the ERP. Then, he collaborated with the Sandinistas during the war years in Nicaragua and always maintained his support for Cuba.
“As a consequent revolutionary of South America” was defined, adding that “in Venezuela I participated in the two civic-military surveys of February 4 and November 27, 1992 against the democracies disguised in the IV Republic, and since then I have always followed the cause of the supreme commander of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez. ” affirmed.
When asked about President Nicolás Maduro said “Imperialism and the right believed they could have won with Nicolás Maduro. Instead, the first Chavista and worker president revealed himself, as we say here, a guy respond. He revealed himself as a statesman, a great leader, obviously accompanied by the conscience of our organized people and a working class that is strengthened every day. ”
