They pay tribute in Caracas to the African leader Amílcar Cabral on the centenary of his birth
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Published at: 12/09/2024 04:19 PM
On Thursday, September 12, the centenary of the
birth of Amílcar Cabral, liberator of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela held a conference in honor of the African
revolutionary leader, led by the Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs for Africa, Yuri Pimentel, with the executive secretary for the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America — Treaty of
Comercio
de los Pueblos (ALBA-TCP), Jorge Arreaza, and the presidential advisor of Guinea-Bissau,
Tomás Gomes Barbosa, as special guests.
During the activity, held in the Simon Bolivar Hall of
the Foreign Ministry, in Caracas, Deputy Minister Pimentel highlighted the importance “of Amílcar Cabral's
thinking, as a man of ideas and revolutionary his internationalist
character, the vision of the transformation of society through education and culture (...) the work of the land, the understanding
of the historical reality of his people and the urgency of having his own model of
development”.
He stressed that, on this day, “we wanted to pay this simple
tribute to a man who dreamed and fought for the liberation of his people from the
chains of colonialism and whose legacy became a sacred fire for all of Mother Africa for its
independence and dignity. We are celebrating the
100th anniversary of Amilcar Cabral.”
For his part, the Executive Secretary of ALBA-TCP described
Cabral as “one of the great mothers of Africa”, so he pointed out that, “for
the Bolivarian Revolution, and, in particular, for the Cuban Revolution, for the Sandinista Revolution , even for the Cultural
Revolution of Bolivia; the
processes of African Independence are inputs, they are nutrients of the process of
union of Our America”.
“Our Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America preserves in its collection all the virtues, all the lights, especially
of the martyrs who were finally killed because they feared not only
that those countries would be free but that they would be free and socialist (...) For
us it has been an honor since ALBA and we believe that in the multipolar world that is
born, that it runs the risks of a capitalist model that lives extra
and that tends to dilute, the union of Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa is
fundamental for the future,” said Arreaza.
Who is Amílcar Cabral?
Born in Guinea-Bissau on September 12, 1924, Cabral successfully
led the armed struggle of two peoples
(Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde) for ten years, leading them to military victory against the colonizing army.
This agronomist, writer, politician, and great military
strategist defined colonialism as fascist, racist, and responsible for the exploitation, illiteracy and poverty
of his people. He was a man of
thought and action, and his ideas were embedded in
revolutionary nationalism, pan-Africanism, socialism and anti-imperialism.
Cabral conceived of education and culture as the instrument for the awareness and emancipation of the people. In 1973, after the colonial army was defeated, the African leader was shot dead in Guinea Conakry by the PIDE, the secret police of the dictator Salazar, who, like Franco, ruled Portugal for 35 years on the basis of crime and blood. Amílcar Cabral, after 20 years of popular struggle and enormous sacrifices, paid with his life for the people's freedom, just months before independence.
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