General rejection has been caused by the vandalism attacks to which the Venezuelan cultural heritage has been subjected in recent hours in different cities of the country, operated by groups that have wanted to sow terror on the population.
In that sense, the Institute of Cultural Heritage (IPC), a body attached to the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture, emphatically condemned these actions through a statement that is protected by the Law for the Protection and Defense of Cultural Heritage and its Regulations, the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other legal instruments for the defense of everything that requires cultural, material and spiritual protection.
The content emphasizes the damage to the nation’s cultural heritage that has taken place, specifically, in the states: Falcón, Barinas, District Capital, Trujillo, La Guaira, Guárico, Miranda, Portuguesa, Lara and Anzoátegui.
“The destruction of monuments, burning of infrastructure and other damage to symbols that constitute important references in the imagination of our people, as a supposed way of expressing discontent, is clearly totally disproportionate, since it not only impacts its material damage but also “They affect the community in general by exhibiting fascist, vandalism and destruction of heritage and therefore of our cultural identity that we know are unfounded from other latitudes,” reads the text signed by the institution.
It is worth remembering that the President of the Republic himself, Nicolás Maduro, ordered on the night of Monday, July 29, on national television, to capture and “apply the full weight of the law” to the protesters involved in the demolition of the statue of the Indio Coromoto, an event that occurred that same day in the afternoon when unknown persons in Guanare, capital of the Portuguesa state, demolished the statue that was erected in September 2022 in the vial that connects José María Vargas, José Vicente de Unda and Simón Bolívar avenues in honor to one of the main references of our native peoples.
Another vandalism and senseless event suffered the infrastructure of the Central University of Venezuela, a World Heritage Site since 2000, which was affected in common areas, classrooms, facades, computer rooms and libraries.
The IPC statement lists other effects: the La Vela Mayor’s Office in Coro, Falcón, a World Heritage Site since 1993; the Museum of the Llanos, Barinas, Asset of Cultural Interest; the Soto Sphere, Chacao, Asset of Cultural Interest since 2005.
On the other hand, it was learned that Bulevar del Gentilicio Cueño, located in the Aparay sector of the Cúa-Charallave national highway, suffered an escalation of vandalism as reported by the authorities of the Rafael Urdaneta municipality of Miranda state. The Paseo de los Ilustres was also destroyed, as well as historical sites and images of Pancho Prim, Our Lady of the Rosary, the Virgin of Betania, Our Lady of Coromoto, San Martín de Porres, Cristóbal Rojas, Ezequiel Zamora and Baudilio Díaz.
On the other hand, authorities from the National Experimental University of the Arts (Unearte), Mérida headquarters, publicly warned about the harassment that a member of its teaching staff has been suffering through social networks since Monday, July 29.
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2024-08-02 22:12:07
