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The Government of Venezuela commemorates the 33 years of the “Caracazo”

The Government of Venezuela commemorates the 33 years of the “Caracazo”

On the 33rd anniversary of the social outbreak in Venezuela known as the “Caracazo”, the president Nicholas Maduro affirmed this Sunday that Venezuelans “rose up” against the “most ambitious recolonization plan that had been proposed in 200 years.”

“33 years have passed since the people rose up against the most ambitious recolonization plan that had been proposed in 200 years. We are constituted of a powerful historical consciousness of the past, present and future. Let’s remember the Caracazo, ”said the president on his Twitter account.

On February 27, 1989, thousands of Venezuelans protested against the incessant rise in prices and the loss of power of wages, mainly in Caracas and the satellite city of Guarenas, about 30 kilometers from the capital.

The protests degenerated into generalized violence and looting that were shot down by the police and military and left an undetermined number of dead, ranging from 300 to 3,000, according to official sources then and now.

The Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, assured that the Caracazo represented a “certain blow to the capitalist system” and was also the “genesis of the Bolivarian revolution.”

“This martyr insurrection not only represented a certain blow to the capitalist system and pseudo-democracy, but also the genesis of the Bolivarian revolution, by becoming the beginning of a stage of national liberation headed towards a new and definitive independence,” said Padrino, of according to a press release released on his Twitter account.

Padrino added that Venezuela currently has a Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) that is “on the side of the sovereign to take care of him and protect him in his struggles for the rights and social claims he deserves.”

“Therefore, that tragic episode of national life will never be repeated, because now we are creditors of a solid popular and anti-imperialist character, committed in the midst of adversity, with the genuine interests of the nation,” he said.

On November 3, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (CPI) announced the formal opening of an investigation for alleged crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela.

The case dates back to 2018, when the ICC Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation for the alleged commission of crimes against humanity, since at least April 2017, during the demonstrations, and ill-treatment of opponents in some prisons.

Source: Gestion

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