Caracas, October 12 ( Prensa Latina) The recognition and social visibility of Venezuelan indigenous people was highlighted by the late President Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, said President of the Indigenous Parliament of America, Venezuelan Parliamentary Group (PIA-GPV), Cesar Sanguinetti. In the celebration this Saturday of the Day of the Indigenous Resistance, Sanguinetti expressed that thanks to the revolutionary indigenous spirit of Chavez, Venezuelan indigenous people feel dignified in this important date.
In this regard, President of PIA-GPV explained that with Chavez arrival to the presidency, the native peoples were dignified and included as leading and key actors to society.
At present, it is not the Indigenous who complain because they are not taken into account. We are no longer invisible, he highlighted.
In an interview with the newspaper Correo del Orinoco, Sanguinetti fully identified himself with Chavez’ vision, around the fact that our socialism must be indigenous-Venezuelan, with philosophical bases on solidarity, complementarity, love for the neighbor, and living together as a community, characteristics assumed by native peoples.
Referring to the major achievements by indigenous communities in Venezuela, Sanguinetti assured the main pillar is referred to in Chapter VIII of the 1999 Constitution, which establishes the main principles of the fair vindication of the indigenous peoples’ rights.
This October 12 was held the ceremony of hoisting of the National Flag in Caracas to mark the celebrations for the 521 years of the Indigenous Resistance.
This date was established in 2002 when Chavez instituted October 12th – once Race Day in commemoration of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the American shores in 1492 – as the Day of Indigenous Resistance under presidential decree 2028, in a gesture of recognition of the struggle and culture of the indigenous peoples of the American continent.
