Ribas youth today live in revolutionary battle for a free and dignified
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This is the head of state said on Sunday during his program Alo Presidente, number 350, transmitted from the living Joaquín Crespo, the Palace of Miraflores.
In his Sunday column Lines Chavez, the Venezuelan president stressed that 195 years after the assassination of the hero and martyr of the Venezuelan emancipatory gesture, the commander in chief Jose Felix Ribas, the Bolivarian Revolution today shows that the champion did not die on 31 January 1815, but is more alive than ever and is reflected in the social mission of education that bears his name.
East 31 January marks the 195th anniversary of the assassination of Ribas, whose crime was committed in 1815, made by the president described as "one of the most heinous crimes in our history.
The president recalls: "We recall that in late 1814, the Second Republic came into agony. Nothing could stop the onslaught led by popular José Tomás Boves: independence had not incarnate at the time, as social cause.
"Adversity Ribas had fattened on from the fatal crossroads of Urica (December 5, 1814) and the heroic but futile attempt to resist in Maturin (December 11, 1814).
'The winner in Victoria', as named Bolivar himself, his health reduced, fled into the forests of the Alto Llano was betrayed, captured by the royalists and taken to Tucupido. He was executed with extreme cruelty. Ribas I, undaunted, had endured all sorts of indignities.
"His body was literally dismembered. At the Puerta de Caracas, its head, fried in oil, hung a long time, a warning to the patriots. He wore the red cap which he always wore as a symbol of radical revolutionary condition. "
Jose Felix Ribas was the last of 11 children of a distinguished family of Caracas. He married Josefa Palacios, Simón Bolívar's aunt.
Republican began its activity on 19 April 1810. He encouraged residents to participate in the events of that day.
At independence, he participated in numerous battles, but the episode was the most important battle of La Victoria, 12 February 1814, in which he managed to stop the royalist forces of Boves, led by Morales, as was Boves wounded, some inexperienced troops, consisting mainly of young students and seminarians who had managed to recruit Ribas.
It is in honor of this episode so that Venezuela celebrates Youth Day every February 12.
Ribas was active in the battle of Urica who lost the Republic, but he died in Boves. After this battle, along with Bermudez, offered a heroic resistance to Morales, in Maturin, but also were defeated.
He fled with a nephew and a servant, but was betrayed by a slave named Concepcion Gonzalez. He was captured and his head, fried in oil, was sent to Caracas, where it was exhibited in a cage.
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