Jorge Arreaza denounces campaign for monarchical Spain and against Bolivar

Published at: 12/11/2024 06:56 PM

A supposed “Bolivarian pink legend”, which is linked to another ongoing campaign against the role and inexorable greatness of El Libertador Simón Bolívar, with the sole purpose of “washing his face” of the bloody past of the Spanish empire, denounced the vice-president of Community Councils and Communes of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Jorge Arreaza.

“According to these offended voices, Simon Bolivar impeded the development of the Peoples of Our America by freeing them from Spain. The thing is that, according to them, Bolívar wanted to be crowned king of 'Latin America' (such supine ignorance) and he never wanted the Freedom of the nascent republics,” warned the Secretary General of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) on his social network Telegram.

Arreaza warned that “denying the atrocities of the process of conquering the then Spanish Empire on American lands is like denying that the Earth orbits around the Sun”.

“We noticed the development of a very well organized (and certainly very well paid) campaign, to try to cleanse that Spain of its undeniable crimes and errors, a campaign to which they have even been adding intellectuals and influencers born in Our America (I insist, they must be very well paid on every trip, with every book, at every conference and with every post)”, he summarized.

He pointed out that these paid communicators on networks use the term “black legend” to try to demonstrate supposed unfair views and positions against monarchical Spain, which, during the conquest, would have been humanitarian and would have been concerned with 'civilizing' and for the human and integral development of “its overseas territories”. These messages, even, deny the colonial character of those lands that were beyond the Atlantic.

“The campaign to save the conquest subjects our original peoples to a series of biased analyses, full of prejudice, ignoring cultural diversity and the given circumstances. They portray all indigenous peoples as anthropophagous, cruel and uncivilized. They go so far as to belittle and mistreat the desperate conclusions and narratives of the Spaniard, Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. Apparently, imperial Spain saved the original peoples from their self-destruction,” he says in another part of his message.

He also described as very serious the attempt to ignore the crimes and ill-treatment of invaders in American history. And faced with this claim, he said, the Peoples of Our America and the Caribbean there is only one truth, the one that their ancestors experienced.

“No campaign can hide it, or even moderate it. They don't hold hatred or grudges. But they don't forget. They know where they come from and what it has cost them to travel their paths of life to exist,” he concluded.