Maduro asks indigenous militiamen to be well armed to defend peace

This Saturday, Nicolás Maduro urged the indigenous “militiamen” to be “well armed” to defend “peace and coexistence” of the country, in an event to mark the 532nd anniversary of October 12.

«We have to consolidate the Bolivarian National Militia, the Indian militia. “Indigenous militiamen, (…) well organized, disciplined and well armed also to defend our land from any intruder who seeks to harm peace and coexistence.” This is what Maduro said, through a telephone contact.

The Bolivarian Militia is a civilian unit that, in 2020 – twelve years after its creation – was incorporated as a special component of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).

Maduro, who did not participate in person in the demonstration, assured that “there is nothing to celebrate” this October 12, when, in 1492, “the invasion and genocide began” in America.

Maduro’s government calls on the indigenous people

On the other hand, he ordered the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Clara Vidal, to rescue the languages ​​of these indigenous groups for “the continuity” of the culture of “the true owners of these lands.”

In addition, he asked to “consolidate all plans” related to housing, health and education in their communities, as well as work on “the organization of indigenous youth.”

This Saturday, more than 1,000 people, the vast majority of them Chavistas, mobilized in Caracas to commemorate the Day of Indigenous Resistance and reject the “genocide” that – they claim – Spain committed in the 15th century against indigenous peoples of America.

Several authorities participated in the activity, among them, the president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, for whom the “genocide that the Spanish empire perpetrated on this land was more cruel, it was more inhuman, it was more brutal even than that perpetrated by the Nazi hierarchs.

This mobilization took place four days after the Legislature, controlled by Chavismo, urged the Spanish government to abolish the monarchy, considering it an institution linked to corruption and an “expression of the extreme right,” and urged Maduro to break diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with the European country.

The Venezuelan government insists that Spain “should apologize every day” for the “genocide” in the 15th century, and denounces that “new fascist and racist currents” in the world “attempt to impose historical revisionism by minimizing the atrocities of the process of invasion, occupation, colonization and slavery in American territory.

Therefore, it urges to “keep alive” the history of indigenous “struggle and resistance” in the face of the “fiercest aggression known to humanity”, and to promote “channels to make effective the recognition, justice and reparation of these crimes of against humanity.