CHAVEZ: 'HODURAS ATTACKED BECAUSE IT IS OUR WEAKEST FLANK'

	July 4, 2009
The Lines of Chávez ALBA and the Hour of the Furnaces Ven-Global News Today is July 5th, the most significant and patriotic meaning: 198 years of our Declaration of Independence. On July 5th, 1811, a historical and decisive rupture occurred. And what a decisive rupture: our absolute independence was proclaimed, thus giving birth to our first Republic and the National state. It was a rupture with a clear political meaning that had already been announced on April 19th, 1810. The spirit of such a rupture was embodied, on the path towards July 5th, by the revolutionary Patriotic Society, whose continuous agitating activities and consequent pressure on our First Congress radicalize things. The flaming words of Miranda, Bolívar, Ribas, Coto Paúl gave impetus to the independence cause. It was a rupture promoted and led by a small group of Creole. The First Republic lacked the peoples balm. But it does not diminished, of course, the importance of the year 1811. By the way, it is necessary to pay attention to this lucid and passionate reflection of Augusto Mijares: "The truth complete truth is that Venezuela anticipated to give a legal foundation to its revolution with the same vehemence it showed later to defend it." I want to highlight the deep meaning of this date as reflected by the last verse of a song that became popular in the streets of Caracas in 1911: "United by bonds/made by heaven/all America exists as a nation." The feeling of a whole nation. The Constitution of 1811, the first of Our America, established that its precepts were inviolable. But, and this is important, it was possible to "alter and move these resolutions according to most of the people of Colombia wanting to gather in a national body to defend and preserve their freedom and independence." Colombia: there is the hand of Miranda. That is to say, Venezuela understood its existence as a free. sovereign and independent nation inside a bigger unity, just as we understand it today, thus resulting in the Bolivarian Alliance ALBA, in UNASUR. Only united we will be independent! Today is the day of the Bolivarian Armed Force. I send, through my words, the testimony of a grateful people that today knows that the arms of the Republic belong to them. It is a recognition given to the people by the people: the Day of the Bolivarian Armed Force if today the Day of the People in Arms. On this great day, I invite the Venezuelan soldiers to reflect: Look at yourselves in the painful mirror of Honduras. See the enormous difference between an Armed Force fraternally united to its people, as people in arms, and a military force that has been turned into an occupying army inside its own country and at the service of the bourgeoisie without Homeland, but with masters in the North. The union of Our America becomes stronger, gains momentum in the concert of nations and takes off the ground with a liberating fly. The neo-fascist blow of a group of military gorillas against President Zelaya... We have to think it over under the following factor: They want to make the Honduran government pay for its incorporation into the ALBA, its identification with those who aspire to have a world with more dignity and justice; they want to close the doors of a new history and get with their dark privileges out of the garbage. But in their blindness, they do not realize that they are trapped by a fatal anachronism and a total lack of historical sense. It has been told, as it is true, that the Honduran coup d État goes against what is embodied by these four letters: ALBA. The Bolivarian Alliance is not only a historical urgency, but the inexorable way to face the structural crisis of capitalism; therefore, it is the unifying tool with the highest political will when acting in favor of the unity of our America, which can not be put off. Thats the reason why they seek to attack, as I have said, its weakest flank. Thats the exact reason why the most sickening wing of the Honduran society, with arms, woke up with a party. With a stink of powder and arrogance, they believed that they could break a peoples hope. But the feeling of the people can not be hidden when they have decided to be free. The desire for transformation is felt in the Honduran air; thats the reason why we see on the TV screens soldiers chasing a ghostly enemy: the gorillas have ordered them to sow terror because they fear the people. These traitors to the homeland will never be able to understand the sacred fire of Morazan. His yesterdays accusing words are aimed today against them and everything they represent. "You men who have violated the most sacred rights of the people due to your sordid and selfish interest, I am talking to you, enemies of the independence and liberty." Lets recall, in the midst of this battle for the independence, the voice of young Colonel Simón Bolívar in his memorable public speech on July 3rd, 1811 in the Patriotic Society: "Hesitating will make us get lost." "It is the hour of furnaces," said Martí. It is the hour of the peoples! It is the hour of the future! With no hesitation, we will defeat! Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías / July 5th, 2009