Residents of Caracas burned this Sunday, to recreate the death of Judas, a four-headed puppet with the faces of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, as well as other representative figures of the politics of the Caribbean country.
The Burning of Judasin which every Easter Sunday dolls representing characters accused of treason are incinerated, was the first that inhabitants of the center of the capital did in the street, following two years of pandemic, in which it was carried out on roofs of buildings.
The recreation, in which the figures of the mayor of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez, and the Minister of Electric Power, Néstor Reverol, were also burned, took place in the west of the citywhere the young Bassil Da Costa was when he was killed during a demonstration on February 12, 2014.
The tradition, that ends Holy Weekwas intended to represent the rejection of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the Maduro government, according to Carlos Julio Rojas, coordinator of the Front in Defense of North Caracas.
“Putin is the icon of the war and is one of the pillars that keeps Maduro in power. We burned Maduro, for another consecutive year, because it is an icon of hunger, misery, repression and torture, and, above all, of a high treason that has been hand over to foreign empires, such as Russia and Chinaour resources on account of staying in power,” Rojas said.
In addition, he explained that Meléndez was burned because “he committed high treason by undermining and trampling on the historical symbols of the capital that are intrinsic in the hearts of the people of Caracas, eliminating the Lion of Caracas, changing the flag and removing the anthem to put a riot of municipal symbols.
“And Néstor Reverol, whom we have burned twice, because we see how the blackouts are here to stay in Caracas. This week we have had problems in some areas, where they go from 8 to 10 hours without light”, concluded Rojas.