By Manal Abdel Fattah
The Embassy of Venezuela in Cairo celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution, where Supreme Commander Hugo Chavez Frías assumed political power constitutionally on February 2, 1999, after his electoral victory on December 6, 1998, and the Bolivarian Revolution began, which meant a radical change in government administration with a widespread popular and humanitarian presence.
Chargé d’Affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy in Cairo, Angel Herrera, said that the beginning of the revolutionary government was directly preceded by the popular uprising that occurred in Venezuela on February 27, 1989, which was followed by the events of 1992, when the new awakening of the Venezuelan people and the beginning of the emergence of the new Bolivarianism, a project characterized by the rescue of deep assets. of Venezuelan social and historical processes, with a large popular presence, characterized by retributive justice and based on equality.
He added: It was a historical moment of awakening, rebellion, and the search for a better destiny inevitably, and it gave glimpses of rebuilding hope, which led to the beginning of a second phase, which is the phase of re-establishing the creative, constitutional, popular democracy. Which occupies a very unique space because at that precise moment one of the most powerful leaderships that had the greatest historical influence in Venezuela, Latin America and the world flourished, which is the creative and historical influence of the leadership of Commander Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.
He added: As stated in the speech of Venezuelan President Maduro, popular mobilization is an essential element in the historical events of these thirty years in Venezuela, since the awakening of February 27, 1989, and the awakening of that anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchy revolution on February 4, 1992, and until this day, as we have always been. We call for conscience, strength, values, morals and spirituality.
He continued: Twenty-five years ago, on February 2, 1999, Venezuela began a new phase in its history with the official assumption of power by popular leader Hugo Chavez Frías, who appeared on the political scene in 1992 to change the prevailing situation that had witnessed a moral collapse and a tarnished reputation for the political class that had turned its back. For the people since the dawn of the model of representative democracy.
He added: Those were periods of permanent revolution and irreversible commitment to the new homeland, and today we can confirm that all the sacrifices and work to implement the Bolivarian project promoted by Commander Chavez were worth it.
He said that Chavez and his ideals formed the new horizon for the historical and political development of Venezuela, by activating the original constituent power and providing the nation with the “Magna Carta” or Magna Carta adapted to the new era, in which the popular tendency to restore national independence and sovereignty crystallized in a social, historical and political process with global resonance. Great, and its call for transformation and justice.
He added that it is the participatory and pioneering model stipulated in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Derived from the process that began in 1999 and extended to all parts of the nation, to reinvent and formulate the true concept of democracy as a moral principle and a popular political practice, and as a legal concept that cannot be separated from individual and social rights, equality of conditions and opportunities for all, and respect for cultural, ethnic, and partisan diversity in a world that was and is not. It still suffers from the weakness of true democracy in the face of the aggressive, exclusionary, dictatorial, and destructive neoliberal model of life on the planet.
He said that the model of direct and pioneering participatory democracy, which the Bolivarian Revolution gave priority to, has not only succeeded, as we have seen and as proven in each of the goals we have achieved, but it is currently becoming increasingly important in the world to prevent social catastrophes.
He pointed out that the third phase of the Bolivarian Revolution is the construction phase in Venezuela, as the Bolivarian Revolution was able to achieve justice, equality, prosperity, prosperity of social life, living life, and the utmost levels of social happiness.
Among other achievements, the most important social transformations achieved by the revolution are: Increasing social investment: from 25% during the period of the Fourth Republic to more than 75% to meet the real needs of the people.
Strengthening the public health system, establishing educational missions, and increasing school enrollment rates, as Venezuela records 93% of the number of school enrollees in its classes, and 86% of them receive education in public institutions for free and of high quality, and in 2023, it reached 8,824,512 students studying in 28,000 educational facilities in the country. .
