The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, commemorated on Monday, the thirteenth anniversary of the “Golpe de Timón” speech by Commander Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), reaffirming the validity of his legacy and the mandate of “Commune or Nothing!” as a route for the construction of the new society.
Through his account on the social network Telegram, the president said that “the validity of the dreams, the theory and the guidelines that Commander Chavez left us are undeniable.” He recalled the moment when Chávez entrusted him with a crucial mission: “Nicolás, I entrust you to the communes as my own life.”
Maduro described that gesture as an act of deep education and supreme confidence that marked the course of the country. “The Commander sowed the idea of People’s Power, of empowerment; and turned our innate rebellion against imperialism into a creative and emancipatory force,” said the president.
In this sense, he emphasized that the mandate “Commune or Nothing!” represents the unavoidable horizon for the construction of a new civilization, profoundly human and anchored in the values of Venezuelan roots, which requires permanent criticism and self-criticism to solve the problems of the people.
The head of state maintained that the Rudder Coup is the masterful route to build participatory and protagonist democracy, a political model of the 21st century that “buried the failed and exhausted bourgeois democracy of elites.”
In the message, accompanied by audiovisual material, Commander Chávez himself is heard expressing: “We have to territorialize the models in the face of the complexity of the challenge (…) See each other’s faces! Look into each other’s eyes! Nicolás, I entrust this to you as I would entrust my life to you: the Communes.”
As part of the commemorative day, the Government and the People’s Power are delivering this Monday 20,000 works arising from the popular consultation, which will benefit thousands of people in the most humble communities throughout the country, following the legacy of the supreme leader of the Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.
“Commander Chávez, today we say with the certainty of victory: You did not plow in the sea! Here is your homeland, your people, and we are moving forward, firmly, towards the great goals of our Bolivarian Socialism,” concluded President Maduro
