Chávez with his “ugly but good singing” revived culture in every corner of the Homeland

Published at: 28/07/2026 12:00 PM

In Sabaneta, Barinas state, a boy full of dreams, Hugo Chávez Frías, was born, who, encouraged by his Mamma Rosa: “Sing Huguito, sing”, began to form that love for his land through singing and reading, a love that years later he would sow in the heart of an entire town.

In addition, growing up in a natural environment, where ancestral tasks were always present, led him to be that man who revived the culture proper to our national identity in every corner of the Homeland.

Chávez, the boy who learned to read and write thanks to his Mamma Rosa, who was also an extraordinary storyteller and gave him his first lessons in the history of the Fatherland, was the same young man who invited others at parties or family gatherings to immerse themselves in reading, giving away books with dedications that showed others the need to study.

For this reason, Chávez was the man who marked a turning point in the perception of culture in Venezuela, in which, during the Fourth Republic, governments dedicated themselves to trying to erase national identity, perhaps to try to convince the population that what came from abroad was better and to lose their self-love.

During each of his travels through the beautiful Homeland to be imbued with the love of the People, he understood the strength of the creative people, the song people, the artisan people, the dance people, the art people, that people who, through their creativity, keeps alive the cultural legacy of our ancestors, it was to that people that he extended his hands to make dreams come true that perhaps he could not achieve, such as that of being a harpist, because the designs of his destiny were different.

For this reason, when today the harp, four and maraca resounds in every corner of the Homeland, or the ringing of the drumheads, the love of Chávez for his people and the love of the people for that man who came from his beautiful Barinas to change the history of Venezuela and who today from his spiritual plane continues to lull and encourage the entire Homeland with his songs.

Vindicated cultural people

With the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution, at the hands of Commander Hugo Chávez, the development of popular culture was promoted, and the work of the cultivators of the Homeland began to be vindicated and recognized.

That is why in 2004 the Commander created the Cultural Mission, with the objective of strengthening talent and the promotion of cultural manifestations; however, this work of transformation had already been carried out and was consolidated in 2005 with the creation of the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture, this meant the allocation of resources for projects and cultivators.

Another step was to transmit his love for reading to his people, thus promoting a literacy campaign and the mass distribution of books, some of a social nature and other great literary works such as Don Quixote and Les Miserables.

Later, in 2006, it continued to open space to culture with the creation of the Center for Cultural Diversity. And in 2007, in the National Plan, Simon Bolivar consolidated the importance of the reintegrative vision of culture by including, as a line of national development, the strengthening of a national, Latin American and Caribbean identity.

The Commander, by organizing cultural entities on different platforms according to their areas, made music, dance, theater, painting, crafts and plastic begin to wake up all over Venezuela, but not with elitist art from outside, an art with a flavor of a people, an art that brought Simón Bolívar to the theaters, an art that opened the doors of large stages to the drum, the joropo, the bagpipe, an art that began to sing and paint for the people.

It was Chávez who helped to show the enormous cultural diversity that amalgamates and defines us at the same time, it was he who gave his hand to the great cultors who had been abandoned and who opened up the spaces of an entire homeland for the arts.

For this reason, today part of his legacy can be seen in the people who enjoy and celebrate in streets, theaters and any possible space for cultural activities that invite the enjoyment and preservation of our national identity.

Mazo News Team