This Tuesday, February 27, marks 35 years of the popular and anti-imperialist rebellion that was suppressed with blood and fire by the adeco government of Carlos Andrés Pérez (CAP).

“Capitalism, the bourgeoisie denies power to the people, denies the people to the government, imposes them, and goes to the extreme of even the most savage repression such as the one that occurred in this valley of Caracas and the country on a day like today in 1989,” Commander Hugo Chávez said in 2011, commemorating the tragedy that the Venezuelan people must have suffered at the hands of the national stateless right.

This spontaneous social outbreak, called “El Caracazo”, immediately spread to areas of the metropolitan area of Caracas such as Caricuao, El Valle, Nuevo Circo, La Hoyada, Catia and Petare and in La Guaira, Maracay (Aragua), Valencia (Carabobo), Barquisimeto (Lara), Mérida (Mérida), Barcelona (Anzoátegui) and Ciudad Guayana (Bolivar), among other areas of the country.

With this “Shake”, as it was also called, it was the day when the town “came down from the hills”, a wave of looting broke out in the country, mainly of supermarkets, butchers, electronic goods and white goods businesses, which were inaccessible to the large impoverished majority who could not meet their basic needs of life.

In response, the people who had come out bare-chested to claim their right to life, were greeted by the shrapnel of a genocidal regime that, under the mantle of the United States and the big television networks, shot down thousands of Venezuelans, hiding their bodies in mass graves.

“The people were sleeping but that day they woke up suddenly, now you could say it in many ways comrades, companions, sisters and brothers, but on February 27, that Monday of that year 1989, I say, the 21st century began on this planet, the 21st century in the world began in Caracas, it began in Venezuela on a Monday morning, February 27.”

Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez on February 27, 2011.

Mazo News Team