Deputy Cristobal Jimenez put forward the bill on Thursday’s ordinary session, acknowledging that the late Bolivarian leader “has been and will be an eternal visionary, a dreamer, a loving man and the Supreme Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution.”

He highlighted the way in which Chavez confronted the North American empire and built a new homeland based on participative and protagonist democracy, as a model for the full exercise of the People’s Power.

The legislator remembered him as a defender of just causes by leading the civic-military rebellion of February 4, 1992 against the oligarchic government of Carlos Andres Perez, who sought to impose on the people the adjustments of the International Monetary Fund.

“Chávez, he added, will live forever in the eyes, thoughts and actions of the Venezuelan people and of our America, as an unforgettable leader and giant,” who tirelessly contributed to the construction of an independent, free and sovereign homeland under Simon Bolivar’s ideals.

He also called to consolidate the teaching about the life and work of the Bolivarian leader through training programs, “aimed at the revolutionary militancy in political training schools, institutes, public entities of the State and community spaces at national level.”

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