The remains of Manuela Sáenz were transferred to the National Pantheon 15 years ago

Published at: 05/07/2025 08:28 AM

On July 5, 2010, the symbolic remains of Manuela Sáenz, the Liberator of the Liberator Simon Bolivar, entered the National Pantheon.

Inside a box containing land from Paita, Peru, where this courageous and patriotic woman was buried, she was received with honors by Commander Hugo Chávez during the commemoration of the 199th anniversary of the signing of the Venezuelan Act of Independence.

“Thank you Manuela for coming back. Even though Manuela had never been to Caracas, she never came physically, but who said, as she wrote it (...) she is from all over this Great Homeland. “My country,” he said, “is this America.” Who takes it away? This is our country, our Homeland is our America, '” said Commander Chávez.

In this regard, she stated that transferring Manuela's remains to Venezuela vindicates the struggles of many women for the independence of America.

“That's why this is an act of justice, feminist, as a feminist, I think, we must be the real revolutionaries, the real socialists. I believe that full liberation, from the cultural, social and integral point of view of our peoples, could not be achieved without the full liberation of women, from the yoke of machismo, under which these capitalist, exclusive and unjust societies were born and created,” he emphasized.