Chavez was sown in our conscience, minds, and pure souls, the Venezuelan President stressed.

On Wednesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro commemorated the historical figure of Commander Hugo Chavez on the anniversary of his death.

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“Twelve years have passed since that shocking blow—perhaps the strongest since the death of the Liberator Simon Bolivar—that the Venezuelan people, the Great Homeland, and the world received: the physical departure of our eternal Commander Hugo Chavez,” he said.

“We transformed the terrible pain of those hours, days, and years into love, strength, courage, and bravery, and we firmly united to overcome, lift our heads toward the horizon, and continue marching with the conviction that we are on the right side of history, building the Bolivarian project,” Maduro stated.

“Chavez was sown in our conscience, minds, and pure souls. We have not failed him, and we will never fail him. Long live his memory and legacy forever!” he stressed.

Considered the most important political figure of the last century in his homeland, Hugo Chavez was a military officer and politician who served as the President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013.

Born into a poor family in 1954, he joined the military academy and later became involved in politics, influenced by leftist and nationalist ideologies. In 1992, he led a failed coup against President Carlos Andres Perez, which led to his imprisonment. After his release, Chavez founded the Fifth Republic Movement and won the presidency in 1998, thus initiating the Bolivarian Revolution.

In 2011, Chavez was diagnosed with cancer, which led to multiple treatments in Cuba. Despite his deteriorating health, he won re-election in 2012 but was too ill to be sworn in for his new term. He died on March 5, 2013, at the age of 58.

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Source: teleSUR – Presidential Press

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