Published at: 26/03/2025 08:00 PM

(El Nacional/Latest News/El Universal, March 28, 1994)

• On Saturday, March 26, 1994, after two years, one month and 22 days, the Commander of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, was released from La Dignidad Prison.
• Commander Hugo Chávez Frías had been transferred weeks before to the Military Hospital in Caracas. From there, he boarded a helicopter to Fort Tiuna.
• In political sources, it was commented that Commander Chávez would be a candidate for mayor of Caracas by Convergence,” which he ipso facto denied.
• During his first public event at the Ateneo de Caracas, he stated: “I categorically reject any link with Cause R. I will never be a member of Cause R. We do not and will not belong to that political organization.”
• He also stated that his aspiration was to take power and to achieve this objective, the Bolivarian Movement 200 (MBR-200) was being consolidated as a political organization where various sectors of the population will have maximum participation.”
• In that act, he insisted on the need to convene a National Constituent Assembly to re-found the Republic.
• He stressed that he was always in favor of peaceful processes, but that if the same conditions existed then he would rise up again.
• He revealed that former defense minister Radamés Muñoz León, sponsored by reactionary sectors of the FAN, the oligarchy and dominant groups, was planning a coup supported by the Pentagon, but that he aborted it because he did not have the support of the Bolivarians.
• The Commander emphasized that “a retarded generalate and admiralty, troglodyte and gorilla has been leaving.” One of its last representatives was the dismissed minister Radamés Muñoz León.
• He warned that if the situations of February 4 were to arise again... “it would revolt again, because History and the People have proved us right. At the same time, he ruled out inciting a popular rebellion and that only the people are able to decide if an exit of force is necessary.”
• He assured that he aspired that the then president Caldera and his team would establish a social balance in the search for a direction. Hoping it wouldn't be necessary to take up arms again.
• Regarding the Sosa Plan for economic recovery, proposed by the Government of Caldera, he said: “... The country has already experienced, in its democratic phase, 8 Plans of the Nation and I describe the last one as disastrous, because they brought Venezuela to the most chaotic situation in its Republican History.”
• “This is not a question, he said, of designing a short-term program, as in the case of the so-called Sosa Plan, there is no perception of a national strategic policy based on new parameters... the mathematical models applied in the past to social, economic and military reality have yielded negative results.”
• That day, in relation to the pardon that favored the patriots of the 4F, Antonio Armas Camero, from Convergencia, in defense of the procedural benefit granted to Chávez and the armed soldiers, declared: “With the dismissal, peace was returned to the barracks”
• For his part, the president and Senator for Democratic Action, Pedro París Montesinos, said that this pardon violated laws, military regulations and the Constitution itself.
• Through this presidential measure, Major Ramón Lugo López, Lte., was also granted the dismissal of Major Ramón Lugo López. Eliécer Otayza Castillo, Lt. José Nelo Lozano and Tte. Jesse Chacon Escamillo.

Mazo News Team