January 23, 1958: The End of a Dictatorship and the Beginning of the Betrayal of the People

Published at: 23/01/2025 08:05 AM

As a result of the political and military crisis that Venezuela was experiencing, on January 23, 1958, the people, in a civic-military union, rose up against the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez; with the intention of recovering democracy.

That date was the end of 22 days of protests against the Pérez Jiménez administration, which in turn marked the beginning of the pseudo-democracy of liberal and neoliberal, social democratic and social Christian governments until 1999, when the contemporary history of Venezuela was divided after the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez.

The people demanded another system of government, which would allow them to choose their authorities, that the rule of law, freedom, life and the plurality of thought should be respected.

The events that occurred on that historic date caused Pérez Jiménez to leave the country for the Dominican Republic and a Provisional Government Board was installed that called for elections for December of that same year.

However, the struggle that united adecos, copeyans, socialists and communists was short-lived, as adecos and copeyans betrayed the people with what was called representative democracy in a pact to hand over the Fatherland to transnational corporations, a pact to plunge the people into poverty, a pact to persecute and kill dissent: The Fixed Point Pact.

Mazo News Team