March 5, 2013:11 years of loyalty to Commander Chávez (+testimonies)
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Published at: 05/03/2024 08:00 AM
“Dear compatriots who see and hear us all over the country and in the world! At 4:25 in the afternoon, on March 5, Commander President Hugo Chávez Frías died,” the vice-president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the time, Nicolás Maduro Moros, announced on national television.
After the announcement, the people took to the streets in dismay. Many men and women who were outside the Military Hospital, where Commander Chávez's body remained, weeping and love became one because of that Venezuelan giant that marked the country's democratic history.
Eleven years after this episode that clouded the hearts of Venezuelans, we find a series of testimonies that agree on something fundamental in the revolutionary process: “Loyalty to Commander Hugo Chávez”, an example of this, are these words that we reproduce below:
“Loyalty is not fanaticism, being Chavista is a philosophy of life”
The alternative communicator, Ramón Bustamante, 21, believes that Commander Hugo Chávez demonstrated to the People a decent way of living where everything is possible thanks to the social, educational and economic policies he implemented.
“For me, Commander Chávez was and will continue to be an example of gallantry. I think it could be said that he is one of the bravest in Venezuela to talk about socialism, communism, sovereignty, knowing the attacks he could receive from the empire and the bourgeoisie (...) I think that with his charism and courage, he became an icon of Venezuela for defending its people,” said Bustamante.
In addition, he indicated that the Commander gave necessary tools to his people, who today assume it through loyalty as part of their legacy.
“Loyalty is not fanaticism, being Chavista is a philosophy of life,” he concluded.
“Loyalty to Commander Chávez is our future”
Compatriot Xiomara Cortés, community leader of Petare, recalls that when Commander Chávez left, she was looking for her children at school, “it was very painful because he was a relative, a father, a pain, very strong,” she said.
For this revolutionary, loyalty to Chávez is love because he was a man who opened the doors to knowledge and also “he taught us loyalty”.
In this regard, he asserted that the Bolivarian Revolution will continue because it is a process “beautiful, beautiful because it fills us, because loyalty to Commander Chávez is our future,” he said.
“Don't plow in the sea, Commander”
Chávez was the son of all the country's older adults because he vindicated them and integrated them into the social programs of the Revolution, a true example for the world. Proof of this is Leandro Wilson, 73, who stressed that the Commander woke up an entire town.
He mentioned that he was in front of the Military Hospital when he heard about the Bolivarian Leader's move to immortality and he could realize that from that moment on, “Chávez is a verb and a noun, he is a people, Chávez is a feeling, a current that he knew how to introduce himself into each of the hearts of those who love the free and sovereign Homeland. Chávez is not dead, Chávez lives.”
With great emotion Wilson asserted to the Supreme Commander that “don't plow in the sea Commander, the People are following your legacy, thank you”.
“My loyalty to him and to the Bolivarian project is still intact”
Those young people who were born with Chávez have been present all these years because they were the ones who lived and witnessed the life and work of the Eternal Giant, as is the case of Liliana Araujo, a social communicator, graduated from the Commander's favorite: The Bolivarian University of Venezuela, tells us about her experience of that March 5, 2013.
“The day she died, I was at my mother's house, when a national channel comes out she calls me to her room and tells me to watch television because something happened, because Nicolás Maduro, then vice-president, was kind of in shock and actually announced the death of President Hugo Chávez. At that moment I felt as if a very close relative had died, and that was because Chávez had won the hearts of Venezuelans,” Araujo recalled.
Araujo, asserted that Chávez did not plow in the sea but that he exists in millions of Venezuelans under the slogan of “Always loyal, never traitors!” because his thinking is still valid and beats in every corner of the national territory like a beacon of light that guides the future of the country.
“My loyalty to him and to the Bolivarian project is still intact, the fight for the big, beautiful Homeland that he and Bolívar dreamed of is going on,” he emphasized.
More than a decade after becoming millions, the Venezuelan people defend their legacy on a daily basis, which today is more consolidated than ever, and despite the constant imperial onslaught, they resist, because that's how strong and unbreakable the Eternal Commander left it.
“Whatever happens, under any circumstance, we will continue to have a Homeland (...). There will be no shortage of those who try to take advantage of difficult conjunctures to, well, maintain that commitment to the restoration of capitalism, of neoliberalism, to end the Homeland. No, in the face of this circumstance of new difficulties - whatever size they may be - the answer of all and all patriots, revolutionaries, those of us who feel the Fatherland even in the guts, as Augusto Mijares would say, is unity, struggle, battle and victory”, Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez, December 8, 2012.
Mazo News Team