Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Saturday that there is a “cowardly left” that is envious of the example of the late President Hugo Chávez and the “socialist revolution of Venezuela,” although he did not mention any politician whom he includes in that group.
“Hugo Chavez who was so attacked in life and is still attacked by a cowardly left that is still envious of the example and legacy of the giant Chávez, a cowardly left that does not dare to confront capitalism and the oligarchy and is envious of Chavez and the Venezuelan people,” he said at the end of an event for the Youth Day of Venezuela.
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In his opinion, Chávez “became a world myth in the struggle for justice, in the struggle for socialism and in the struggle for the peoples,” which is why he was “so attacked in life.”
The president considered that he is “an eternal giant,” just like “the Chavista people.”
“Giants of the history we have lived, but above all of the history that is about to live, because, if the struggle we have given has been glorious, if the victories that we have built have been glorious will be the struggles that you are going to give in the future,” he said.
Despite the various criticisms received by leftist political leaders inside and outside his country, some of whom, like the militants of the Communist Party of Venezuela, have frequently been the object of their darts, Maduro did not clarify who he was referring to on this occasion.
