Chávez Eterno: If it were up to me I would go to Arauca to explore those sheets that I carry in my soul

Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, from San Fernando de Apure, on September 15, 2012, assured that he loved Barinas because it was his homeland, but that there was nothing like the Apure Coast.

Chávez maintained that if it were up to him, he would get off that platform and walk again, as in other times, the streets and corners of San Fernando de Apure.

“If it were up to me, I would walk some streets, after approaching the riverbank and feeling the roar of Apure Immortal,” he said.

He also maintained that he would go on a long journey all the way to Apure until he reached Elorza. “I would go to Arauca again to explore those savannas that I carry in my soul, sisters and brothers and I would go there to the Caribbean channel, to the savannas of Alcornocal and beyond that I would reach the Capanaparo River, I would go to Carabalí, to Barranco Yopal and beyond.”

He recalled that character from the novel Doña Bárbara who walked through the savannas of Apure, and said that if he had had the luck of Lorenzo Barquero, “who was swallowed by the savanna”, he would have agreed: “If someone had asked me if I wanted the fate of Lorenzo Barquero, to stay there, far away in the drawer of Apurea's Arauca until the weather dries up, and you become earth, you become water from this savanna I would say yes, a thousand times yes because I love this land”.