Caracas, Feb 12 (EFE) .- The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, assured this Saturday that there is a “cowardly left” that is envious of the example set by the late president Hugo Chávez and of the “socialist revolution in Venezuela”, although he did not mention any politician whom he includes in that group.
“Hugo Chávez who was so attacked in life and is still attacked by a cowardly left that is still envious of the example and legacy of the giant Chávez, a cowardly left that does not dare to confront capitalism and the oligarchy and is envious of Chavez and the Venezuelan people,” he said at the end of an event for Venezuela’s Youth Day.
In his opinion, Chávez “became a world myth in the fight for justice, in the fight for socialism and in the fight for the peoples”, which is why he was “so attacked in life”.
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The president considered that he is “an eternal giant”, just like “the Chavista people”.
“Giants of the history that we have lived, but above all of the history that is regarding to live, because, if the fight we have given has been glorious, if the victories we have built have been glorious, the more glorious will be the fights that you are going to give in the future,” he said.
Despite the various criticisms received by left-wing political leaders inside and outside his country, some of whom, like the militants of the Communist Party of Venezuela, have frequently been the target of his darts, Maduro did not clarify who he was referring to on this occasion.
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