Deputy Minister of the MPPRE Pimentel: Africa's struggles are also part of the Bolivarian Revolution
MPPRE Press
Published at: 10/03/2026 01:20 PM
The Venezuelan Government, through the Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, paid a heartfelt tribute this Tuesday to Roland Gilbert Okito Lumumba, an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist leader and promoter of pan-African solidarity, who died on January 28.
Desde the Sucre Hall of the Yellow House, in Caracas, the Deputy Minister for Africa, Yuri Pimentel, assured that “Venezuela and Africa are united by the same history of struggle, of facing genocide, the looting of our resources (...) it has been a common struggle for freedom and sovereignty (...) those struggles in Africa are also part of the Revolution Bolivarian”.
Asimismo, recognized the friendship of the African leader, son of the Congolese hero Patrice Lumumba, with the Venezuelan people; “unconditional in every moment of difficulty, in every victory, he accompanied us from the heart of mother Africa!”
Pimentel expressed its condolences to the peoples of Africa for the physical departure of the leader and added that Lumumba's legacy “is not something we will remember as a cold statue; his legacy is the task ahead of us. Their absence feels like a burden on the soul and an emptiness in the front row of struggles.”
El tribute to Roland Lumumba takes place as part of the visit of a delegation from the African Legacy Foundation, of which he was a founding member and general secretary at the time of his death, and included the screening of audiovisual material that highlighted the anti-imperialist struggle in Africa.
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