By insisting on the need to promote and disseminate the historical memory of the heroes and heroines of Venezuela, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asserted that the country’s educational centers, as well as organizations of the People’s Power, must “claim collective memory” in the territory.
“One of the most revolutionary acts that we can do in every school, in every high school, in every university, in every community council, in every territory where our people are is to vindicate collective memory, is to set men like Domingo Antonio Sifontes as an example,” said the President upon arrival at the National Pantheon of the mortal remains of General Sifontes.
In this sense, he pointed out that Venezuelan youth should feel proud to be Venezuelan: “Feel proud to belong to a land full of lights, of brilliance, of patriotism, that has done so much for humanity.”
He asserted that perseverance will allow the vindication of values in the Venezuelan people: “It is about building the basis of a powerful identity, the new Venezuelanness of the 21st century, we must not allow our values to be destroyed.”
In this regard, he pointed out that General Domingo Sifontes believed in the truth of the Republic and strove to see it established.
“He believed that the homeland of Bolívar and Sucre was called to glorious destinies, and I know that he would have given all the blood in his veins to see it emerge radiant and transfigured in the midst of our political miseries,” he stressed.
