Regarding the various reactions to the death of Tibisay Lucena, former director of the CNE, by opposition Venezuelans in general through social networks, and which have been described as hate speech by Chavismo, phrases have been dusted off on RRSS of the former president of Venezuela, now extinct Hugo Chávez Frías, regarding the death of his adversaries.
For his part, Prosecutor Tarek William Saab, through his Twitter account, described the fact that some network users and spokespersons in the media “have dedicated themselves to spewing hate speech” as aberrational and wrong-doing. against Lucena.
The president of the AN Jorge Rodríguez, proposed that the opposition should apologize to the figure of Tibisay Lucena, former rector of the CNE and who died this Wednesday, and that this should be considered as “the first requirement to request any service from the National Electoral Council” .
Among the phrases that came to the fore this Thursday were those written, for example, by Paulina Gamus for the newspaper El País, from Spain, in 2014, when the two-time president Carlos Andrés Pérez died on December 25, 2010.
At this moment, the words of the late Hugo Chávez were not compassionate towards one of the most important figures during the years of democracy in Venezuela. “I don’t kick dead dog…. There will be no national mourning because today a corrupt man, a dictator, died…”, was Chávez’s expression.
Three years before the death of former President Pérez, in October 2007, the Venezuelan Cardinal Rosalio Castillo Lara died, one of the most important figures of the Church in Latin America, who held high positions in the Vatican before the election of Pope Francis.
“I am glad that that demon dressed in a cassock has died, I hope he is rotting in hell as he deserves, I know he will writhe forever watching the revolution advance…”, was Chávez’s harsh expression.
And when the agricultural producer Franklin Brito died, after a prolonged hunger strike, against the government in 2010, the communication minister Andrés Izarra’s greeting was “Franklin Brito smells like formaldehyde”.
Another of Hugo Chavez’s remembered expressions was those addressed to Gladys Diab, the mother of the Faddoul brothers, who were murdered. “Put the whining and let those boys rest in peace.”
Diab had criticized the silence of the ruling party on the kidnapping and murder of his three children, in 2006, in the midst of a chaos of violence in the country.
The entry They dust off Chávez’s expressions of hatred in the face of the death of adversaries was first published in El Informador Venezuela.
