“This Monday, April 26, we remember our comrade and brother of a thousand battles, Eliézer Otaiza, 7 years after his vile murder”, wrote the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in a message published on his social networks.
“Always a fighter, self-sacrificing and willing to defend the causes of the people. He became a moral force and an example of militancy, of the struggle for the dignity of the Homeland”, said the Head of State.
On April 25, 2014, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, denounced that the assassination of Otaiza was planned by the government of the United States (USA): “Eliézer was a great leader of Caracas, he was rising from below, brave, true leader who loved the people, a simple and energetic man, bold, he did not know what death was, he only lived and that is why he is in us”, said the National President at that time.
Born in Valencia, Carabobo state, on January 7, 1965, the politician, thinker and athlete Eliézer Otaiza achieved honors as a Bachelor of Arts and Military Sciences, also pursuing a master’s degree in Political Science at the Simón Bolívar University.
A loyal follower of Commander Hugo Chávez, he was a member of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), to later form part of the National Constituent Assembly in 1999. During that period he starred in one of the most emblematic episodes in the recent political history of Venezuela, at present the proposal to change the name of our country to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
This proposal was approved by the majority of the Venezuelan people on December 15, 1999 and represents one of the most significant changes in the symbolic field of the revolutionary process that the country is currently experiencing, which rescued Bolívar’s ideas for the construction of the new national project.
A tireless worker for a more just society, Otaiza occupied various trenches of struggle within the public service. He was in charge of Mission Robinson in its beginnings, he served as head of the Directorate of Police Intelligence Services (Disip) in 2000, he held the presidency of the National Institute of Training and Socialist Education – Inces, he was president of the Instituto Nacional de Tierras (National Institute of Lands – INTI), general director of the National Contracting Service (SNC), general coordinator of Terminal La Bandera and president of the Municipal Institute of Sports and Recreation of the Mayor’s Office of Caracas.
The last position he held at the service of the Bolivarian Revolution was as councilor and president of the Municipal Chamber of the Libertador municipality of Caracas in 2013. One of his last public appearances was on April 19, 2014, when he headed the act of opening of the ark that protects the book of the city council, which contains the act of the declaration of the independence of Venezuela from the Spanish yoke, on April 19, 1810.
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“We remember our comrade and brother from a thousand battles, Eliézer Otaiza. Always a fighter, self-sacrificing and willing to defend the causes of the people. Seven years after his vile murder, he became a moral force and an example of militancy, of the struggle for the dignity of the Homeland”.
