Cabello: In the Fourth Republic, through the policy of pacification, countless revolutionaries were assassinated

Published at: 25/02/2026 09:37 PM

The general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, emphasized that amnesty as well as pardon and forgiveness “is a political act but it requires nobility of spirit and an understanding of politics.”

In this regard, he recalled that there were no amnesty processes in the country between 1950 and 1998, and in the first administration of former President Rafael Caldera, “they invented one thing: a policy of pacification, which consisted first of the demobilization of the revolutionary forces that had taken a path of struggle and then, in the full identification of each one.”

In this context, Cabello emphasized that this policy exposed them “they were taken out to identify them and assassinated a mob during the Caldera government, in the government of Carlos Andrés, who murdered young people, the majority.”

“Everything I read here about people who were killed has to do with the politics of pacification. The peace of the graves, said Commander Chávez, was applied, not a real peace,” he highlighted in his Con El Mazo Dando program, broadcast number 562.

He also highlighted the behavior of Commander Hugo Chávez, who did indeed grant a true pardon and raised a sincere call for dialogue, despite the fact that it was intended to assassinate him, “but they didn't have the courage to do it.”

Cabello also stressed that the current Amnesty Law for Democratic Coexistence “does not contemplate future crimes, whoever believes this is in trouble. Whoever wants to understand, let him understand it.”

“Life is giving them an opportunity, the Venezuelan political system, the Bolivarian Revolution, gives them an opportunity to do politics,” he said.

Mazo News Team