53 years ago, Commander Chávez was inaugurated as a Cadet in the Venezuelan Military Academy

On November 6, 1971, Commander Hugo Chávez was inaugurated as Cadet.

On November 5, 2011, one day before the 40th anniversary of his inauguration as a cadet, Chávez recalled, at a press conference he gave at Fuerte Tiuna, the act that made him a cadet of the Republic.

“On a day like tomorrow, they invested us,” he said at the time. “It's the day the dagger is handed to the cadet, it's the oath with the gun. After three hard months, it's a very demanding process.” And when he received the dagger, only then did the boy from Sabaneta say: “The thing is kind of serious, and I got cold inside. I am a soldier,” recalled the Eternal Commander in 2011.

Four decades after his admission, the Supreme Commander would reveal that he entered the military academy with a baseball glove under his arm and came out with a heart and a revolutionary spirit.

“It's easy to say 40 years, but how long has it been!” expressed that day of commemoration in 2011, when to relive memories he toured the gigantic “Cat Hill” in Fuerte Tiuna, terrain that he went up and down a thousand times on foot when he was a cadet. Chávez walked to the point of that hill where there is the most beautiful view of the entire heart of the Caracas barracks and the populous neighborhoods surrounding it.

Mazo News Team