The commemoration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance began this October 12 with the delivery of the Venezuelan flag by the sector vice president of Politics, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, to cadets of the Bolivarian Military University; to be hoisted in the National Pantheon.
The national tricolor was raised accompanied by the national anthem in the Kariña language by members of this ancestral indigenous people.
Cabello and Vidal proceeded to place a Wiphala Flag on the Liberator’s sarcophagus. Afterwards, members of indigenous communities performed honors with ancestral dances in honor of the greatest hero ever born in America.
Minister Cabello extended his greetings especially to the indigenous, Afro-descendant peoples and communities, “greetings to our Bolivarian National Armed Forces, ministers who today attend this recognition of the ancestral struggle, to our heroes, our martyrs, 532 years later, still imperialism is going on, those who believe they are superior, who have a complex, are the same ones who claim genocide every day in Palestine, they are the same ones who for a century have stolen natural resources from the poor but we show them the honor , the courage and dignity of people who were already here, who did not need to be discovered by anyone.”
Next, the symbolic remains of the Guaicaipuro chief were transferred to the main altar where the mortal remains of the Father of the Nation Simón Bolívar rest, in addition to floral offerings by the authorities.
“Our people were subjected to beliefs that were not theirs and they repeated it until Commander Hugo Chávez arrived. This is how they told us our story. They sold us Miranda in La Carraca, they wanted to show us that anyone who was like Miranda was going to end up in prison,” added Cabello.
