The 12 of February 2014 is an important date for Venezuela. This day we commemorated 200 years of one of the most dramatic battle to achieve our independence from the Spanish Empire. It is called “Dia de la Juventud” or the youth day, for no a light reason. In February 1814, the Spaniards, led by Jose Tomas Boves set to take control on the access to the central region. Then the quick actions of Jose Felix Ribas, under Simon Bolivar command, to form an untrained army with 2000 of youngest students in the region to offer to a well trained and professional Spanish army, un unlikely difficulty. Many of the students were barely 12 to 14 years old, and the region that the Spanish were about to take was of strategic importance for the newly born republic, while Boves was well renown as a brutal royalist causing great deal of casualties among the population that embraced the cause of the republic. José Felix Ribas, facing all the odd against his forces, encouraged the fibre of his juvenile troops by “we do not have the options between succeed or die, necessary is to succeed” The Spanish were defeated in the location of La Victoria not without a great deal of sacrifices among the Venezuelan youth.
President Nicolas Maduro.
Commemorating this day means honouring the greatest scarifies that the juvenile generation of 1814 made for the republic. However, the 200 years great celebration of the Venezuelan people was eclipsed by a parallel agenda set up by radical extremist of the right wing factions, in fact, a neo fascist group is taken grounds into the Venezuelan youth that has made tend apart from the most moderated factions to take power by force, led by coup d'état plotters, no recognizing the rule of a democratic system and manufacturing violence to justify an “ousting”. When journalist asked students in their teens what were their goals, many merely replied ‘I will kill Maduro’ referring to the president!
Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Machado are the most visible political operators of the ‘ousting’ plan.
The violence caused by the right wing students, or so called “students” infiltrated by political operators were various in grade. First, they started by a march to the General Attorney Office demanding a meeting which was granted to be in the premises of the Public Ministry, but they wanted to be in the open, and after they vociferated their will to humiliated the General Attorney, it was clear that the open street was not a sensible place to meet with so various violent motivations, then an outburst of violence destroyed the whole ground floor of the public offices. The destructions of public and private property is serious enough, but it is particularly aggravated by the destruction of several police force vehicles used to capture criminals, when the country is under an acute level of criminal gangs violence. How a political faction that pretend to rule Venezuela, bring such level of destruction and death without taken responsibility? How they will make better the country if they do destroy it?
The most serious offense is the killing of innocents, once again, as it happens before in April 2002, the announcement of planned and budgeted death, to then resorting into an out of control spiral of violence to justify an unconstitutional ousting of president Maduro .
Amazing!! Right wing student or protester destroying a young tree.
There are lessons learnt from 2002 coup d'état, and they must be apply now to defend Venezuelan democracy.
