On Friday 26 December, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marked the birth anniversary of Chairman Mao with a message on his official Telegram channel.
Attached to the message is a video in which President Maduro elaborates on the historic importance of the Chinese Revolution and China’s role in the world. The video transcript (translated to English by us) reads as follows:
Our tribute to the Great Helmsman Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, who, through his example, his ideas, and the revolutionary struggle he led, undoubtedly shaped the 20th century worldwide and marked the future of China. The 21st century is the century in which the destiny of humanity, as President Xi Jinping says, must be characterised by the common destiny of humanity.
Only the great republic founded by the great Mao Zedong, the great Helmsman, was able to bring China and the entire Chinese people together, enabling them to establish a political model that has allowed for the development and expansion of productive forces, and has managed to transform China in just 50 or 60 years from a semi-feudal country to a country with the highest level of scientific, technological, cultural, economic, financial and commercial development in the world.
A powerful culture and a powerful revolution, the revolution of the Great Helmsman, who founded the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
One must study the epic journey of the Chinese people and how the Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, together with the Communist Party of China and the People’s Liberation Army, managed to forge the greatest national alliance in Chinese history.
We share the same values, the historic values of the great Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping, Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez. So we are united in soul, spirit and values.
Below you will find the text of the Telegram message (translated to English by us) and the associated video.
We celebrate the birthday of Mao Zedong, one of the giants of the 20th century. His genius in strategy and the formation of a revolutionary army of workers and peasants demonstrated that peoples can defeat empires. His legacy taught us that: “Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; the decisive factor is man and not things”. This strategic vision was the cornerstone for the victory and liberation of the Chinese people.
Thanks to leaderships like that of Mao, China has regained its power, transforming itself into a superpower of knowledge, education and technology, and restoring dignity to a nation. Mao’s figure represents rebellion and the construction of a sovereign project, elements that inspire our homeland in the defence of its own sovereignty and independence.
