Maduro called to respect Chavez’ will

Nicolas Maduro

“We are in front of him as we never wanted to be,” said Vice President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in his speech during the state funeral in honor of President Hugo Chavez, who taught his people to “raise the flags of Simon Bolivar, of love and forgiveness.”

Maduro, who at the end of the afternoon, took the office as the new President of Venezuela, was almost on the verge of tears and said “we face a tragic and hard hour” and took the time to acknowledge the presence of heads of state and delegations from around the world to dismiss the Venezuelan leader, who said, “Here you are commander with your men to stand in front of you loyally.”

Showing the Constitution, in the same format that the late president used to, the vice president said that the book was a will, the guide, the country’s supreme charter, the charter of peace, and a letter “a letter to carry out a revolution, a democratic revolution.”

In his will, written on June 2012, Hugo Chavez, as Nicolas Maduro stated , he left “five democratic tasks” to be meet: Maintain and strengthen the independence achieved in the last 14 years, to build the socialism in Venezuela, American and democratic, to build Venezuela as a power within the great power that must be Latin America, to create a world of balance, no empires, no new hegemonies, which respects international law, and contribute to the preservation of life on the planet and the existence of the human species.