President Maduro praises General Manuel Piar's legacy 251 years after his birth

Published at: 28/04/2025 12:19 PM

The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, paid tribute this Monday to the independence hero Manuel Piar, “the First Brown General in Chief in the history of America and the great Liberator of the East”, when the 251st anniversary of his birth was celebrated.

Through his Telegram channel, the Head of State recalled that “Piar managed to form a popular army, made up of imarron, freedmen, indigenous, brown, mixed race, poor and exploited white people”, with whom he “fought for an independence that would guarantee equality and justice, seeking to build a truly anti-monarchical republic that would put an end to the privileges of the Mantuans and heirs of the colony”.

The Dignitary pointed out that “this feat represented a class struggle: that of the exploited, poor and discriminated against by their origin, against the economically powerful classes”, stressing that Piar's leadership, however, “ turned him into a victim of intrigue and conspiracy”, a painful fact of Venezuelan history that “has been repaired with the vindication of our General in Chief as Hero of the Fatherland in the National Pantheon”.

Mazo News Team