Bolivarian Aviation Day: Defenders of Our Sovereign Space

Published at: 27/11/2024 08:05 AM

Every year Venezuela celebrates Bolivarian Military Aviation Day, instituted by Commander Hugo Chávez, in commemoration of November 27, 1992, the date on which the Venezuelan Air Force staged the second military uprising of that year against the regime of Carlos Andrés Pérez.

“November 27 will be the Day of the Venezuelan Air Force, the revolutionary, patriotic air force. But it will never be subordinated to imperialist interests, or to any other interest other than the national interest,” said the president, Hugo Chávez, in 2009, when this commemorative date was established through presidential decree number 7,102.

The heroic event of military aviation gave rise to a new phase as an institution that protects the principles of social justice, freedom and sovereignty of the nation, legacies left by the Liberator Simon Bolivar and the Eternal Commander Hugo Chávez. That is why the history of Venezuelan aviation is bifurcated in two markedly different times: those days in which the military component committed the most despicable atrocities against the rebel people in the face of the status quo imposed by representative democracy and the most recent phase of contemporary Venezuelan history in which the Air Force came to the defense of the people who rebelled against the neoliberal package of Carlos Andrés.

That is why this day was recorded as the first effective use of air transport in the country's history, an event that was part of a trilogy of events that put an end to the Fourth Republic and allowed the beginning of a process that gave rise to the Bolivarian Revolution.

Mazo News Team