Opening of the monument in honor of Hugo Chavez in Brazil (+ photos)

Sources told MST Prensa Latina that the siege was lifted 10 years after the death of one of Latin America’s greatest political leaders and tireless master builder of the Patria Grande.

Representing her passage through the MST at the Salvador Allende School of Medicine in Latin America, in Caracas, young Lucinia Costa confirmed in the act that “Chávez’s love and commitment to the (Venezuelan) people was evident.”

He pointed out that this “reinforced the revolution and the popular sense of belonging and being visible wherever it happened.”

Also in this regard, Roberto Torrealba, the Venezuelan consul in Brazil, hailed universality and solidarity as the core of Chávez’s leadership.

The diplomat recalled that the International Brigade International Movement groups were “the first friends with whom Hugo Chavez recognized the importance and power of solidarity represented by the courage to challenge the world.”

Costa and Torrealba also agreed on the need to remember the name of a disciple of the liberator Simón Bolívar “for his acts of solidarity in the country he ruled and as a partner of the MST movement in Brazil”.

In this event, in addition to the inauguration of the plaque in memory of Chávez, Ipé yellow (the national emblem of Venezuela) was planted, a common designation for a tree species of the Bignoniáceas family, of medium size, which produces yellow flowers, as symbols of hope and life in the union of peoples.

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