During the 9th edition of “Maduro Podcast”, which was held from the Cuartel de la Montaña (The Mountain Barracks), the first combatant woman, Cilia Flores de Maduro, exalted the victory that was for the Venezuelan people the military rebellion led by Commander Hugo Chávez that 4 February of 1992:
“What for some was a military defeat because they neutralized a military rebellion, in reality it was a great victory for the people, a great political victory, it was a great victory because Hugo Chávez became a national sentiment and that is why there is a history before and after February 4,” he explained.
Flores specified that the people, without knowing Commander Hugo Chávez, identified that what he was doing “was for the country and from there he united the country, Hugo Chávez united the country from the first moment he appeared on television, in those few minutes he united an entire country, it is a national feeling,” she reiterated.
For his part, the Venezuelan head of State and Government, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted that many came out to paint “Viva Chavez” (Long live Chávez) on the walls, an expression of support for the Commander, since “thousands of people did it on their own in all the streets.” “, of all the cities, of all the neighborhoods, that was the synthesis of what the people’s response was, of a unique historical movement,” he stressed.
“A unique feeling of a generation that rose on the basis of hope, years that are alive in the memory that mark the longest revolutionary historical cycle in the entire history of Venezuela,” he stressed, when recalling the events of February the 4th (1992).
Likewise, he highlighted that “the hope, the authenticity with which he spoke, his look, was our face, it was the face of the people, then a movement emerged from those of us who were invisible. The invisible ones emerged, there were more of us.”
