The Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yván Gil, denounced a new attack by the fascism, this time in the Monte Sacro, in Rome, where the sacred monument to the “Liberator Simón Bolívar” was vandalized.
Through his Telegram channel, Gil stated: “Once again fascism attacks and vandalizes the sacred monument to the Liberator Simón Bolívar, in Monte Sacro, Rome; 219 years after that wonderful oath, they still fear the force of the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist spirit that will always triumph in our peoples.”
“We thank the authorities of the Mayor’s Office of Rome for the timely efforts to protect and recover such an important space, a symbol of the fight for freedom,” he stressed.
The Oath of Monte Sacro is a promise announced by the Liberator Simón Bolívar, whose objective was to emphasize his deep personal commitment to the Latin American independence cause and which took place during his visit to the city of Rome, Italy.
The oath, witnessed by Simón Rodríguez, his teacher and mentor years before in Caracas, shows the enlightened and romantic side of Bolívar, imbued with youthful idealism (he was 22 years old when he took it) and disappointed by the vicissitudes of his life, after the death of María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro y Alayza, his wife, in 1803, he swore on August 15 on the hill of Monte Sacro, to dedicate his life to the liberation of the Latin American continent.
