The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, urged the authorities on Monday to maintain a “permanent exercise of historical memory” 20 years following the coup once morest Commander Hugo Chávez, perpetrated by the oligarchy made up of politicians, businessmen, ecclesiastical and military sectors supported by the Government of the United States (USA).
“We have to keep in mind that there is a generation that has already risen up, that either they do not remember anything, because most of them were not born, or they have blurred memories of their childhood, 20 years have passed” of the events of April 2002 , he indicated.
“We must carry out a permanent exercise of historical memory, a permanent exercise to nurture the historical, superior consciousness of the people of Venezuela, especially of all Venezuelan youth, what happened in Venezuela 20 years ago,” said the head of state.
During the inauguration of the “G/J Jacinto Pérez Arcay” Doctrine Center of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), located in Fort Tiuna, Caracas, he indicated that the North American Military Mission operated in those spaces during the time of the Fourth Republic, which “It was an intervention mission in our country.”
In a joint radio and television broadcast, he denounced that all the soldiers, generals without troops, who participated in the coup d’état once morest Chávez worked for the North American Mission in Venezuela.
“Everyone, the oligarchy, military traitors, were captured by the United States for years. All the soldiers, generals without troops who participated, all worked for the US military mission in Venezuela, all had a direct undercover relationship for years, with the Pentagon, the Southern Command, with the CIA, the State Department, “he said.
“They sold the honor of their uniform, they betrayed their country, no one is saved. At the moment that imperialism decided to advance towards a coup d’état, they were contacted, captured, articulated, and that April 11, they all showed their horrific face of traitors, to carry out the coup d’état of that time, “added President Maduro .
He recalled that the declassification of the Pentagon documents evidenced the participation of the United States in the coup.
«This coup was decided, prepared and executed from the White House, in Washington, not because I say so, but because the declassified documents of the Pentagon, of Congress say so. There is enough material », he specified.
In this context, he denounced that “the military schools of the United States recruit young people, mold them, offer them resources, recruit them and then use them in their plans to harass and overthrow progressive, revolutionary, independentist governments, governments that they have their own voice of the whole world”.